Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

Shirebrook. By 1990 the station had closed but has since re-opened. It is on the Robin Hood line with trains from Nottingham and Mansfield linking with Worksop. The roof of a Midland Railway type signalbox can be seen above the train, below the arch of the bridge. Here lines ran to Langwith Junction, left, also known as Shirebrook North, and to Worksop via Elmton and Creswell, right. The station buildings, right, still stand.
In the 1990s Shirebrook Colliery, behind the camera, was still at work and there was a diesel depot here in 1988 to provide motive power for the coal trains. The colliery has since closed and the area landscaped.
The other lines at Shirebrook were originally owned by the Great Northern and Great Central, which met at Langwith Junction.
In the shot above the train is entering the station from the Langwith Junction direction, headed by an LMS 4F 0-6-0, a post-grouping development of a Midland freight locomotive. 1950 could well be the date - I'd imagine the lamp posts on the platforms would have been swept away by British Railways in the 1960s

Shirebrook West. A view the other way, taken in 1957 by Ben Brooksbank. Now the colliery waste tips are evident. And the lamp-posts are still in place on the platforms: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2122691

The station building was nicely restored in 2010

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