An Update from Clowne Station Restoration - August 2024

We're back in Clowne, Derbyshire to catch up with the Clowne Local History Society. They are in the process of tidying up the former Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway station site that run through the middle of Clowne.

As we've seen in previous videos the railway tunnel was infilled and station demolished. The working party have cleared the vegetation and repaired parts of the wall and tunnel entrance.

We'll have a look at the new posts for the lamps that were being installed in the last visit. We're also hearing their plans for the information board that will sit at the top of the footpath.

The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown, by the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway on the company's Beighton Branch between Langwith and Sheffield. The station building booking office was situated on top of the tracks with ramps to the platforms either side. In 1939 before WW2, passenger serivces over the line ceased leaving the stations existence in question. Before this time the LD&ECR was taken over by the Great Central Railway.
In 1951 the station was renamed Clowne South to distinguish is from it's neighbour on the MIdland Railway - Clowne & Barlborough station. Which sat only a few yards away.
The line and station remained open for excursions and freight traffic before 1964 when the station was closed completely.

The station was eroded. Local development erased the surrounding infrastructure piece by piece until the station site and tunnel entrance was left overgrown and a hotspot for anti-social behaviour. The station building remained in use thanks to it's street frontage and would later become a bank, bridal shop, photography shop and most recently a beauty salon. The station masters house sits aside the station and is now a business centre.

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