Langley Mill railway station (Erewash Valley line)

Langley Mill
General information
LocationLangley Mill, Amber Valley
England
Coordinates53°01′04″N 1°19′53″W / 53.0177°N 1.3315°W / 53.0177; -1.3315
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 October 1895Station opens
1 January 1917closed
3 May 1920reopened
4 May 1926Station closes [1]

Langley Mill railway station was a railway station which served the village of Langley Mill in Derbyshire, England. It was opened in 1895 by the Midland Railway on its branch between Heanor Junction on the Erewash Valley Line and Ripley.

Langley Mill railway station in relation to its lines and the adjacent Langley Mill and Eastwood station on the Erewash Valley Line.

There was already a station on the Erewash Line, known as Langley Mill and Eastwood, and a Great Northern station called Eastwood and Langley Mill, which opened in 1847 and 1876 respectively. Because this branch station had no passenger connection to the earlier one, it was regarded by the railway as a separate station and was even shown as such on Ordnance Survey maps even though the platforms were adjacent.[2]

Snip from Nineteenth Century Ordnance Survey map showing two stations. This carried on until at least 1940
  1. ^ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. ^ This unusual state of affairs is present with Manchester Victoria and Exchange stations, where a platform met end to end, but these were opened by different companies