Date: 11/08/2014

A countryside railway station has reopened to passengers for the first time in more than half a century. Derbyshire's Shottle station, near Belper, attracted 12,000 annual visitors during its heyday in the 1920s but closed in 1947. Heritage group Ecclesbourne Valley Railway restored the station and hopes it can be as popular as it once was. [From Mark Bartlett]

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A countryside railway station reopens to passengers for the first time in more than half a century.

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A sight I have waited 30 years to see - main line to branch line interchange at Duffield on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. [see image 40048]
Location: Duffield
Company: Wirksworth Branch (Midland Railway)
15/09/2012 Ken Strachan

Platform scene at Wirksworth, on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, on 15 May 2011.
Location: Wirksworth
Company: Wirksworth Branch (Midland Railway)
15/05/2011 Peter Todd

The disused yard at Wirksworth on 17 February 1992, three years after the end of freight traffic. Since transformed by the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway [see image 40126].
Location: Wirksworth
Company: Wirksworth Branch (Midland Railway)
17/02/1992 Bill Roberton