Image ID: 25249

Kimberley Midland Station

Courtesy of Reg Baker

Midland Station
Kimberley
Nottinghamshire
England

This is a copy of a photograph taken in December 1914. Kimberley Midland Station was opened in 1880. The line ran off the Leen Valley Line (Nottingham to Mansfield) at a point behind Highbury Hospital via Bulwell, Watnall, Kimberley and Awsworth to join the Erewash Valley Line at Bennerley Junction. The line was closed in 1916 as a patriotic gesture on the part of the Midland Railway Company. In the battle for the Dardanelles rolling-stock and supplies were available for the front, but they had no railway lines on which to take them, so the ten miles of double-track comprising this section was taken up and presented to the War Department. The Station was never used as such again for the line was never re-laid. It has since been used as an Ex-servicemen's Club. The large buildings in the photograph also belong to them.

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