Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station
- Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station
Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton. [Higginson, M., (1989) "The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway," Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing]
Opened in 1875-6, it served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes until closure in the 1960s. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
References
See also
* List of closed railway stations in Britain
External links
* [http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/ Disused stations]
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