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Hazelwood Railway Station is a disused railway station on the Wirksworth branch of the Midland Railway. It served the village of Hazelwood

Hazelwood, Derbyshire

Hazelwood is a village in Derbyshire at the lower end of the Pennines around five miles north of Derby, England. Ordnance Survey maps in the nineteenth century spelt it Hazzlewood....

. The line has been reopened in stages as the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is a long heritage railway in Derbyshire, the headquarters of the railway centre around Wirksworth station and services operate between Wirksworth and Duffield and Wirksworth and Ravenstor...

History

The Midland Railway

Midland Railway

The Midland Railway was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway....

opened Hazelwood and other other stations on the branch line to Wirksworth on 1 October 1867. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway

London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...

temporarily withdrew Wirksworth branch passenger services from 16 June 1947 due to postwar fuel shortages. British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

ways made this closure permanent from May 1949 when the line was removed from the summer timetable. BR withdrew railway goods services from Hazelwood on 2 March 1964, but the branch remained in use for mineral freight until December 1989.

The station is the only one on the branch line to have had its original platform removed.

The station building and yard were sold and are now the premises of a large timber yard and sawmill.

WyvernRail plc owns the line and the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

operates it. The section of the line through Hazelwood re-opened to passenger traffic in 2011 but at present there are no plans to reopen the station.

Spelling

The station was originally spelt Hazlewood in the 1867 Midland Railway timetable. The village itself was spelt Hazzlewood on an Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...

map of the time. It was subsequently spelt Hazelwood on timetables and station name boards. The OS changed to the new spelling around 1920.

Location

The Station is on Nether Lane north of the B5023 Wirksworth road, which is the main route from Duffield to Wirksworth and parallels the railway along the Ecclesbourne valley.

Route

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