Chesterfield  | |||||
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 Chesterfield railway station entrance | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Chesterfield,Chesterfield England | ||||
| Grid reference | SK388714 | ||||
| Managed by | East Midlands Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | CHD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category C1 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | North Midland Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 11 May 1840 (1840-05-11) | Original station opened | ||||
| 2 May 1870 | Resited | ||||
| 25 September 1950 | RenamedChesterfield St Mary's | ||||
| 18 June 1951 | RenamedChesterfield Midland | ||||
| 7 September 1964 | RenamedChesterfield | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  1.866 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.237 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.323 million | ||||
| Interchange | 44,543 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  1.205 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.172 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 1.450 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.165 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 1.543 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.168 million | ||||
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Chesterfield railway station serves the market town ofChesterfield inDerbyshire, England. It lies on theMidland Main Line, which connectsSheffield withLondon St Pancras. Four tracks pass through the station which has three platforms. It is currently operated byEast Midlands Railway.
The town was once served by three stations; the others wereChesterfield Central (closed in 1963) andChesterfield Market Place (closed in 1957).
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The first line into Chesterfield was theNorth Midland Railway fromDerby toLeeds in 1840. The original station was built in a Jacobean style, similar to the one atAmbergate, but it was replaced in 1870 by a new one further south in the current location, when theMidland Railway built theNew Road toSheffield. This new station of 1870 was designed by the company architectJohn Holloway Sanders.[1]
In 1892, theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later to become theGreat Central Railway, crossed under the North Midland line 0.5 miles (800 m) south atHorns Bridge toChesterfield Central station 200 yards west of this station. In 1897, theLancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway arrived, crossing both North Midland and Great Central lines at Horns Bridge with a viaduct 700 feet long, leading toChesterfield Market Place station at West Bars, near the Market Place.[2][3]
The line into Market Place station closed to passengers in 1951,[2] due to problems inBolsover Tunnel, although the station remained open for goods traffic until March 1957 when it was closed completely. The station building was demolished in 1972. The Great Central station closed in March 1963[2] and was demolished in 1973 to make way for the town's inner relief road.[4]
The Midland station was demolished and rebuilt in 1963. Most of the buildings from 1963 were demolished in the late 1990s, shortly after privatisation. The station was extensively rebuilt shortly afterMidland Mainline took over its operation fromBritish Rail in 1996.
This station is currently[update] owned byNetwork Rail but is operated byEast Midlands Railway, which operates trains between Sheffield and London St Pancras International. Midland Mainline operated the franchise between 1996 and November 2007. The running of the station was passed toEast Midlands Trains, who ran the station for nearly 12 years. Operation then passed to East Midlands Railway.[5][6]
Entrance to the station is on Crow Lane and includes a car park, taxi rank and bus stop. There is also a small chargeable car park on the other side of Crow Lane. The main entrance leads to the station concourse, which was built in the late 1990s; it includes a ticket office, a newsagent, a café and a waiting room. The concourse and the waiting room both have direct access to platform 1. There is also a waiting room on platform 2, which is accessed via a tunnel, using the stairs or lift in the concourse.[7]
The fast lines have two large side platforms, one for each direction; these platforms are covered for around half their length. The goods lines pass around the rear of platform 2 and there is a third large platform here that serves the northbound goods line.
The building of platform 3 was originally planned for 2007/8 to go with theEast Midlands North Erewash resignalling scheme; it would have allowed passenger services to run on the bi-directionaldown slow line (goods line) from a new Chesterfield South Junction to Tapton Junction during perturbation or engineering work on the fast lines in this area. It would have also facilitated the turn back of trains at Chesterfield during theBradway Tunnel blockade in 2008/9.[11] Work on the platform actually began in March 2010 and it was completed in July 2010, at a cost of £2.6 million.[12]
Chesterfield is served by threetrain operating companies:
There are typically 12 passenger trains per hour passing through the station on weekdays (six in each direction), with ten of those calling.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrossCountry Peak Hours only | ||||
| CrossCountry | ||||
| East Midlands Railway Liverpool-Norwich | ||||
Limited Service | ||||
| East Midlands Railway Midland Main Line | ||||
Limited Service | ||||
| Northern Trains Nottingham-Leeds | ||||
| Future services | ||||
| Dronfield | Northern Connect Bradford Interchange - Nottingham | Alfreton | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Clay Cross Line open, station closed | Midland Railway Midland Main Line | Sheepbridge Line open, station closed | ||
| Clay Cross Line open, station closed | Midland Railway Midland Main Line | Whittington Line open, station closed | ||
A pivotal scene inFrederick Forsyth's novelThe Fourth Protocol took place at Chesterfield railway station, including on the station platform and ensuing action on nearby streets.[16]
High Speed 2 trains were planned to serve Chesterfield. A branch off the eastern section of the HS2 line south of Chesterfield would have routed via the M1 running parallel to HS2, allowing trains to continue to and through Chesterfield to Sheffield Midland station. On 17 July 2017, the government confirmed a stop at Chesterfield after approval of the M18/Eastern Route.[17] However, a further alteration to the HS2 plan in November 2021 said that HS2 would no longer go via Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds.
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