Langley Mill railway station


Langley Mill railway station on the Erewash Valley Line serves the village of Langley Mill and the towns of Heanor in Derbyshire and Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is north of Nottingham.
The station lies between Nottingham and Sheffield and is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Services

run an hourly service between Nottingham and via that stops at Langley Mill. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change.
East Midlands Railway operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond and northbound to Sheffield.
Some East Midlands Railway Mainline services from London St Pancras to Sheffield / Leeds call here, but generally interchange with London services should be made at Nottingham.
Buses to use in Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, Amberline, Black Cat, 1A and others that can be found on the Trent Barton website.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms, with platform 1 the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Digital CIS displays, automatic announcements, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is only available to platform 1.

History

See also Langley Mill branch station
The station was opened on the Erewash Valley Line by the Midland Railway in 1847 and known as Langley Mill for Heanor. However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension at Awsworth Junction. The Midland station then became Langley Mill and Eastwood.
In 1895, the Midland built a line from here through Heanor to Ripley with an adjacent station of its own. This was not profitable and closed in May 1926.
It was closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe, but was subsequently reopened by British Rail in May 1986. The former station had platforms opposite each other and was located on the site of the present platform 2. A new northbound platform had to be provided when the station was rebuilt, as the former site north of Station Road had been redeveloped. This is located close to where the old Ripley branch line platform once stood.