LD&ECR remnant
A late arrival on the British railway scene, and promoted in the 1880s mainly to transport coal, the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway never reached any of its intended destinations on its own tracks. It was able to tap into the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coalfields however, and provided a passenger service on the line it managed to construct between Chesterfield and Lincoln. The LD&ECR was absorbed into the Great Central Railway in 1907, which inherited its stud of tank engines. The sparse passenger service was progressively withdrawn, finally succumbing in 1955. Clifton-on-Trent station was a surviving LD&ECR structure, viewed from the A1133 on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border.
December 1999
Rollei 35 camera.
LD&ECR remnant
A late arrival on the British railway scene, and promoted in the 1880s mainly to transport coal, the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway never reached any of its intended destinations on its own tracks. It was able to tap into the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coalfields however, and provided a passenger service on the line it managed to construct between Chesterfield and Lincoln. The LD&ECR was absorbed into the Great Central Railway in 1907, which inherited its stud of tank engines. The sparse passenger service was progressively withdrawn, finally succumbing in 1955. Clifton-on-Trent station was a surviving LD&ECR structure, viewed from the A1133 on the Nottinghamshire/Lincolnshire border.
December 1999
Rollei 35 camera.