Scarcliffe railway station was a former railway station

Train station

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 in Scarcliffe

Scarcliffe

Scarcliffe is a small village and civil parish in the Bolsover district of Derbyshire, England. It is sometimes called Scarcliffe with Palterton...

, Derbyshire

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. It was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway

The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway was a British railway company built toward the end of the era of British railway construction. It opened its line from Chesterfield to Lincoln in 1897....

 (later part of the Great Central Railway

Great Central Railway

The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension . On 1 January 1923, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern...

 and subsequently the LNER) in March 1897. As originally planned, this was a highly ambitious scheme, as its name suggests, but only the central section between Chesterfield

Chesterfield

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 and Lincoln

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, together with a branch from Langwith Junction

Shirebrook North railway station

Shirebrook North railway station was a former railway station in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. It was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in March 1897 and closed by British Railways in September 1955.It was originally called Langwith Junction, and gave this name to the...

 to the outskirts of Sheffield

Sheffield

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, were ever built.

Scarcliffe station was built near the eastern entrance of the 2,624-yard (2,399-metre) Bolsover Tunnel at 521 feet (159 m) above sea level, the summit of the line. Eastwards, the line fell at 1 in 100 to Langwith Junction.

The section between Chesterfield and Langwith Junction (by then renamed Shirebrook North), was brought to a premature demise by British Railways in December 1951, due to the unsafe condition of Bolsover Tunnel
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