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Mystery tour at Elmton & Creswell Junction, 1969
The "Flying Scotsman" pauses for water and the passengers take a look around. Unlikely to happen these days. The mystery train started from St Pancras and ended up at Cleethorpes considerably late, where the locomotive was declared a failure with a leaking steam pipe in the smokebox.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 22 Feb 1969
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The signal box - Elmton and Creswell Junction
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 9 Feb 2016
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Elmton & Creswell Junction
Signal box seen from Creswell Station, though no longer a junction as the left branch has been dismantled
Image: © Richard Croft
Taken: 2 Jan 2012
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Elmton and Creswell Junction signal box
On what is now known as "The Robin Hood Line"
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 21 Oct 2021
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Elmton and Creswell Junction Signal Box
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 18 Apr 2014
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View north from Creswell Station
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 21 Oct 2021
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Creswell Station on the Robin Hood line
Looking towards Worksop the signal box can be seen in the distance.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 8 Aug 2009
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Cresswell station
View northward, towards Worksop (formerly also, curving to the left, towards Clowne etc.): ex-Midland Nottingham - Mansfield - Worksop, and Clowne branch to Staveley and Chesterfield. The station had been 'Elmton & Cresswell' until closed, along with the Nottingham - Worksop line, from 12/10/64. It was rebuilt as 'Cresswell' on 25/5/98, on the new Robin Hood Line which was restored Nottingham - Newstead in 5/93, on to Mansfield Woodhouse in 11/95 and to Worksop in 6/98. Passenger services on the Clowne branch to Chesterfield ceased from 5/7/54, but freight (coal) lasted another 30 years and it would seem that a use may yet be found for the line.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 21 Jun 2002
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Railway north from Creswell station
Looking towards Worksop. The semaphore signal visible here is one of several in this area; however, the signal box that controls them (Elmton & Creswell Junction, which can just be picked out behind the signal) was switched out on this day and may have been closed completely. There is provision for a second signal arm; this would have been for trains diverging from the main line at the junction that formerly existed a little way ahead.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 5 May 2018
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Creswell railway station, Derbyshire
Opened in 1886 by the Midland Railway on the line from Nottingham to Worksop, this station closed in 1964. It was reopened in 1998.
View south towards Langwith-Whaley Thorns and Nottingham. The original station building can just be seen on the left beyond the large modern structure.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 13 May 2010
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