Skellingthorpe railway station
# Skellingthorpe railway station

vte Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway :

Legend :

| Chesterfield (Market Place) | Chesterfield (Market Place) |
| - | - |
| Boythorpe Viaduct overMR Brampton Branch | Boythorpe Viaduct overMR Brampton Branch |
| and Boythorpe Railway | and Boythorpe Railway |
| Horns Bridge overMidland Main Line | Horns Bridge overMidland Main Line |
| GCR Chesterfield LoopRiver Rother | GCR Chesterfield LoopRiver Rother |
| Duckmanton Tunnel | Duckmanton Tunnel |
| Great Central Main Line | Great Central Main Line |
| Arkwright Town | Arkwright Town |
| Arkwright Town Jct (1907) | Arkwright Town Jct (1907) |
| River Doe Lea | River Doe Lea |
| Doe Lea Viaduct overMR Doe Lea Branch | Doe Lea Viaduct overMR Doe Lea Branch |
| Bolsover South | Bolsover South |
| Bolsover Tunnel | Bolsover Tunnel |
| ScarcliffeSummit | ScarcliffeSummit |
| MML to St Pancras | MML to St Pancras |
| Sheffield Midland | Sheffield Midland |
| Attercliffe Road (MR) | Attercliffe Road (MR) |
| Rotherham Masborough | Rotherham Masborough |
| West Tinsley(SDR) | West Tinsley(SDR) |
| Catcliffe(SDR) | Catcliffe(SDR) |
| Rotherham Masborough | Rotherham Masborough |
| Treeton (MR) | Treeton (MR) |
| Woodhouse Mill (MR) | Woodhouse Mill (MR) |
| Beighton (GCR) | Beighton (GCR) |
| Beighton Junction | Beighton Junction |
| Killamarsh West (MR) | Killamarsh West (MR) |
| Beighton (GCR) | Beighton (GCR) |
| Upperthorpe and Killamarsh | Upperthorpe and Killamarsh |
| Spinkhill | Spinkhill |
| Spinkhill Tunnel | Spinkhill Tunnel |
| Clowne SouthSummit | Clowne SouthSummit |
| Markland Grips Viaduct | Markland Grips Viaduct |
| Creswell and Welbeck | Creswell and Welbeck |
| Shirebrook North(Originally Langwith Junction) | Shirebrook North(Originally Langwith Junction) |
| Langwith Junction shed | Langwith Junction shed |
| Shirebrook South | Shirebrook South |
| GNRto Nottingham Victoria (1901) | GNRto Nottingham Victoria (1901) |
| Shirebrook West | Shirebrook West |
| MR (now Robin Hood Line)Nottingham Midland to Worksop | MR (now Robin Hood Line)Nottingham Midland to Worksop |
| Warsop | Warsop |
| Clipstone Colliery Sidings | Clipstone Colliery Sidings |
| Mansfield Railwayto Nottingham Victoria (from 1917) | Mansfield Railwayto Nottingham Victoria (from 1917) |
| Edwinstowe | Edwinstowe |
| Ollerton | Ollerton |
| Boughton | Boughton |
| Tuxford Central | Tuxford Central |
| Tuxford Works | Tuxford Works |
| Tuxford shed | Tuxford shed |
| Dukeries Junction | Dukeries Junction |
| GNR (now ECML)Kings Cross to Retford | GNR (now ECML)Kings Cross to Retford |
| Fledborough | Fledborough |
| Fledborough Viaductover River Trent | Fledborough Viaductover River Trent |
| Clifton-on-Trent | Clifton-on-Trent |
| Doddington and Harby | Doddington and Harby |
| Skellingthorpe | Skellingthorpe |
| GN&GEJRto Saxilby | GN&GEJRto Saxilby |
| Pyewipe Junction | Pyewipe Junction |
| Lincoln | Lincoln |
| to Peterborough | to Peterborough |

Skellingthorpe railway station is one of two former railway station in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, on the border with Nottinghamshire.

## Context

The first station to serve the village was opened by the Great Northern Railway on the line between Lincoln and Gainsborough. It closed in 1868, although the line is still operational today.

The second station was opened in March 1897 by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on its main line from Chesterfield to Lincoln. It was closed by British Railways in 1955, though freight and passenger trains continued to pass through for some years after that.

Skellingthorpe was the only LD&ECR station in Lincolnshire, since to the east the line joined the GN&GE Joint line at Pyewipe Junction onto GNR metals into Lincoln while to the west the line crossed the Nottinghamshire border before the next station at Harby. Only two LD&ECR stations had a level crossing, Skellingthorpe and Bolsover South.

The station building stood to the north of the tracks. It was built in the LD&ECR's standard modular style.

## Former services

There never was a Sunday service at Skellingthorpe.

In 1922 three trains per day plied between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln. All these trains called at Skellingthorpe.

From 1951 trains stopped running through to Chesterfield, turning back at Langwith Junction instead. Otherwise the same pattern continued until the last train on 19 September 1955.

Trains continued to pass, including Summer excursions which continued until 1964, but the picture was of progressive decline. A derailment at Clifton-on-Trent on 21 February 1980 led to the immediate closure of the line from High Marnham Power Station through the station to Pyewipe Junction. These tracks were subsequently lifted.

## Modern times

Today the trackbed eastwards from the site of Fledborough Station, across Fledborough Viaduct, through Clifton-on-Trent to Doddington and Harby forms an off-road part of National Cycle Route 647 which is part of the National Cycle Network.

From the site of Doddington and Harby onwards through the site of Skellingthorpe station almost to Pyewipe Junction the trackbed forms an off-road part of National Cycle Route 64.

| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station |
| - | - | - |
| Doddington and Harby Line and station closed | Great Central Railway Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway | Lincoln Central Line closed, station open |
