when did they stop running the trains to killamarsh pity theres not a station here think alot of people would use them though there is a railway line but no station suppost to be a meeting about surrounding area at beighton soon

the station is still there but now it sells property stuff to tv and films,its on the right at the top of station road,run by a nice lady but i think she is selling up soon and moving to cambridge

Time to drag up an old thread...:)

There were once three stations that served Killamarsh. The extant freight-only line is the former (North-)Midland line, I don't whether any remains of the station exist though. The stations that does exist converted to a business is the Great Central station. The station closed in the 1960s but the line continued to exist as far as Arkwright Town colliery until 1988. I walked the route between Woodhouse and Staveley last Saturday and it is shocking how much has been lost since it was lifted since what is still very recent - especially considering it has been a cycle trail for some time. The housing on the track bed north of Killamarsh station was built during 1989 - it didn't take them long to block the route and end all chances of re-opening it! (I suspect that the housing application triggered BR to lift the line before it was severed).

The third station in Killamarsh was on a branch off the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway's Chesterfield to Lincoln line from Shirebrook to Beighton via Clowne.

Using the existing Midland Railway's metals it is possible to create a Bolsover - Staveley - Barrow Hill - Renishaw - Killamarsh - Beighton - Sheffield service. I suspect the local bus companies and Chesterfield Borough council would be against it though as it would direct people to Sheffield and not Chesterfield.

you've got as much chance of opening a railway in killamarsh as u have of wednesday winning the championship(& i am an owl).
the next development will be the canal - which is projected so that it may utilise some of the old lines to create an aquaduct between the canal & the river rother.
we dont really want the canal building, but the local money grabbing b'stards, sorry council etc want to bring european & government money into the area, its bad enugh with all the bloody drive thru's to rother valley in the summer,god help us if the canal opens & creates a visitor centre.

I would love to see the canal run back through Killamarsh as I live in view of the route it will take! And it will make Killamarsh more than just a drab ex-pit village. Interesting about the stations, were would they have been? I seem to remember seeing trains running in the mid-late eighties, must have been for the pit.