Railway Station built in 1875 on the Great Northern Railway

Dismantled railway. The Great Northern Railway, facing exclusion from the profitable Nottinghamshire coalfields, proposed a far reaching scheme to break the Midlands Railway's near monopoly in the Erewash Valley. The scheme was to run a line, from Colwick on the Nottingham and Grantham line, north to tap the undeveloped Bestwood coalfield, which lacked rail access. It would then veer west to Kimberley and the Erewash Valley. There, at Awsworth Junction, the line split, running north to Pinxton, the other continuing to Deby and on to Eggington Junction, where it linked with the North Staffordshire Line. It would therefore obtain coal outlets to both the east and west. The scheme was authorised in 1872, the Colwick - Pinxton section being completed in 1875, the Awsworth - Eggington section starting in 1875 and being completed in 1878. The Awsworth - Pinxton line closed in 1963 followed by the Derby section in 1964. Goods traffic ended in 1968. (1) (2)

BF021802 EASTWOOD AND LANGLEY MILL STATION, EASTWOOD File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
NRI01 National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.The collection consists of topographically arranged index cards and copies relating to individual monuments and county lists of monuments associated with the National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM) between 1963 and 1980. The NRIM was set up by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) in 1963 and administration was taken over by the University of Bath in 1965. Record cards for individual buildings were completed by interested parties and submitted. Sets of cards were maintained by the CBA, University of Bath (latterly the Industrial Monuments Survey) and the National Monuments Record.In 2012 the collection was updated by Heritage Data and where appropriate monuments were allocated a county designation number. (2)

<(1)> Council for British Archaeology, 1963, National Record of Industrial Monuments (NRIM): Index Cards (Index). SNT6095.

<2> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.