Tibshelf Town railway station

Tibshelf Town railway station is a disused station in the village of Tibshelf in Derbyshire.
The station was opened on 2 January 1893 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, on its line from Beighton in the outskirts of Sheffield to Annesley in Nottinghamshire, which later became part of the Great Central main line to London. The station was optimistically designated Tibshelf Town, reflecting Tibshelf's aspirations to obtain official town status. Tibshelf never did become a town but the station kept this name throughout its operating life.
The line ran through a mainly industrial landscape dominated by mining. To the north of the station was a deep cutting where a tunnel was originally intended; fears of damage through mining subsidence forced the change in the plans. Tibshelf High Street crossed a bridge over this cutting.
To the south, the line crossed over the Midland Railway's branch line from Westhouses & Blackwell, to Mansfield Woodhouse, just to the east of their own Tibshelf & Newton station.

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