Shottle is the second intermediate station on the former Midland Railway branch line to Wirksworth. The line is off the Midland Main Line at Deffield, the first station being Hazelwood (not now open). Shottle station was reopened on 9 August 2014, by the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.

The station is located just off the A517 road, which is the main route from Belper to Ashbourne The nearest settlement to the station is the group of dwellings and public house at the road junction, known as Cowers Lane. However, the station is more or less equidistant from the two slightly larger settlements of Turnditch to the west, and Shottlegate to the east.

Opened with other stations on the branch line to Wirksworth on 1 October 1867, it was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders (1825-1884).

Shottle remained open until 16 June 1947, when the Wirksworth branch passenger service was withdrawn on a temporary basis in response to postwar fuel shortages. This was made permanent with effect from May 1949, when the line was removed from the summer timetable. Freight facilities remained rail-served at Shottle until 2 March 1964, while the branch continued to be used for mineral traffic until December 1989.

The station buildings, platform and former railway cottages remain, the former and part of the station yard being owned by a local oil distribution company who use the building as their headquarters and have repaired its structure in a sympathetic manner.

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