Bolsover South railway station is a former railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 in Bolsover

Bolsover

Bolsover is a town near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is 145 miles  from London, 18 miles  from Sheffield, 26 miles  from Nottingham and 54 miles  from Manchester. It is the main town in the Bolsover district.The civil parish for the town is called...

, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

. 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....

 in March 1897 and closed by British Railways in 1951

The station was built in Carr Vale

Carr Vale

Carr Vale is a small village attached to the New Bolsover model village, Bolsover, Derbyshire.It was begun in the late Nineteenth century to house miners of the Bolsover Mining Company....

 and it was one of the few places on the LD&ECR where a level crossing

Level crossing

A level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...

 was necessary. To the east was a 100 feet (30.5 m) limestone

Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....

 ridge through which it became necessary to drive the notorious Bolsover Tunnel. To the east of this was the next station at Scarcliffe

Scarcliffe railway station

Scarcliffe railway station was a former railway station in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire. It was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in March 1897...

There was an earlier station at Bolsover on 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....

 Staveley Town to Pleasley branch.
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