Chesterfield is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Derbyshire between
Derby and
Sheffield as well as a stop on the
Leeds-
Nottingham Line.
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| EMR 222 005 arrives with a London St Pancras bound service |
| Information |
| Type: |
National Rail (Midland Main Line) |
| Station code: |
CHD |
| Opened: |
1840 |
| Platforms: |
3 |
The first Chesterfield station was opened by the North Midland Railway in 1840 on their line from Derby to Leeds. This station was replaced a new station to the South in 1870 by the Midland Railway. Two other stations were built in Chesterfield in the late 1800s including one by the Great Central Railway but these were closed in the 1950s and 1960s. The station was known as Chesterfield Midland until 1950, it was then changed until Chesterfield St Mary's until the following year [1], the station is nowadays just known as Chesterfield.
The station was demolished and rebuilt in 1963 though the current station mostly dates from a further rebuilt in 1996 [2]. The station has extensive goods facilites including a number of private owner sidings but all have now gone.
Chesterfield has three platforms, platform 3 on one of the two slow goods lines is bidirectional and is mainly used in peak hours. The other platforms have fine canopies. Chesterfield is served by East Midlands Railway, Cross Country and Northern. Access between the platforms is via a subway.
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| A Cross Country service departs |
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| View down the platform |
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| Platform buildings and canopies |
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| Northern 195 021 arrives |
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| EMR 158 813 departs North |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Ilkeston to Chesterfield (Middleton Press, 2019) Fig. 114
[2] Ibid. 120
