Clipstone Colliery Sidings railway station was a station in
Clipstone
Clipstone is a village in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 United Kingdom census, 2001 census, increasing to 4,665 at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 c ...
,
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...
.
While primarily a
goods station
A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are lo ...
, there was an unadvertised halt used by workmen. It was on the former
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) was built to connect coalfields in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire with Warrington and a new port on the Lincolnshire coast. It was a huge undertaking, and the company was unable to raise ...
line and is listed in Butt as ''Clipstone Colliery Sidings.''
A large concentration of sidings around
Kings Clipstone
Kings Clipstone is a settlement and civil parish, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish lies in the west of the county, and north west within the district. It is 122 miles north of London, 1 ...
and the worker's halt at
New Clipstone village both served the Clipstone, Mansfield, Thoresby, Ollerton, Welbeck and Rainworth collieries for several decades.
Clipstone Sidings signalbox was existent on 21 October 1950 and was near Clipstone West Junction, heading towards Welbeck Junction.
Clipstone East signalbox was existent in the 1960s on the 'main-line' between Welbeck Junction and Thoresby Junction.
The Midland Loaded Sidings of
Clipstone Colliery were still in regular use on 23 June 1972
Both Clipstone West junction and Clipstone colliery Junction and closed on 14 July 1986.
The pit closed in April 2003.
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Clipstone Sidings signalbox, Clipstone West Junction and Welbeck Junction no longer exist
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Clipstone Siding on a navigable 1947 OS mapClipstone CollieryClipstone Sidings Signalbox
Disused railway goods stations in Great Britain
Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire
Former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1912
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