Unstone railway station

Unstone
Location
Place	Unstone
Area	District of North East Derbyshire
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 February 1870	Station opens as Unston
1 July 1908	renamed Unstone
29 October 1951	Station closes[1]
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Unstone railway station was a station in Derbyshire, England.

It was built by the Midland Railway in 1870 and was designed by the company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[2]

It was on what is known to railwaymen as the "New Road" to Sheffield. This bypassed the North Midland Railway's original line, which had avoided Sheffield due to the gradients involved, and came to be known as the "Old Road".^[3]

Originally called Unston until 1908, when the "e" was added. It had timber buildings without canopies. It closed to passengers in 1951 and for goods services in 1961.

From Unstone, the line continued the long 1 in 100 climb to Dronfield.

References

1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
2. "The Sheffield and Chesterfield District Railway. The New stations". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. British Newspaper Archive. 13 April 1869. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
3. Pixton, B., (2000) North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route, Cheltenham: Runpast Publishing

Coordinates: 53°17′24″N 1°26′34″W / 53.2901°N 1.4427°W