Egginton Junction railway station


Egginton Junction railway station is a disused railway station in Egginton, Derbyshire.

History

The first station in Egginton was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway in 1849 with the opening on the line between and at a location approximately west of the later station. In January 1878 the Great Northern Railway opened on its Derbyshire Extension which made a junction with the NSR at Egginton. Initially there was no provision for GNR trains to stop at Egginton so the two companies agreed to build a new station situated at the junction of the two lines. It was arranged in angle of the junction, with separate pairs of platforms for each company and opened on 1 July 1878.
The new station was provided with substantial brick buildings; a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the main GNR platform in the vee of the junction, with small timber-built waiting rooms on the two outer subsidiary platforms.
Regular passenger traffic on the GNR line from Friargate finished in 1939, although it saw excursions until 1959. The station then closed in 1962. The Egginton Dairy creamery had a dedicated siding for the dispatch of milk trains around the country, until the mid-1960s.

Present day

The line from Friargate remained open for some years, being used as a test track by the British Rail Research Division. The station area was leased by a caravan dealer who later moved on. By 1974 the main station was derelict and would have been pulled down had not a building company bought it in 1978 and renovated it for use as offices. The NSR side of the station has disappeared, apart from the signal box which is still in use to supervise a level crossing and to act as the 'fringe' to Derby PSB.