[5] Whilst the above-tracks station building was unique on the LD&ECR the Stationmaster's House was styled in the company's distinctive architecture.

Clowne South's booking hall was substantial and stood on top of the bridge straddling the two tracks,[9] with ramps down to the two platforms.

The traditional Summer Holiday excursion – "Wakes Week Specials" in some parts of the country – was decimated in the early 1960s, both stations at Clowne being prime examples.

[12] "Excursions" were wide-ranging; they could be for a day at the seaside, for a football match, for sightseeing such as to York or just cheap tickets on service trains to drum up custom.

In the days before widespread "replacement bus services" two routes in particular benefitted from this, the GCML and the line from Lincoln to Sheffield via Retford.

Up to the early 1960s "The Boaty" - the daily Liverpool Central to Harwich Parkeston Quay boat train - was an occasional sight trundling along the LDECR through Warsop, Shirebrook North and Clowne South, regaining the route into Sheffield Victoria at Killamarsh.

A number of railway enthusiasts' special trains ran through Clowne South in its declining years, driven by a mixture of rising affluence and awareness of things passing.

His rule passed steadily eastwards as older mines worked out and newer, larger and deeper pits were sunk in Nottinghamshire.

This meant that the LD&ECR line eastwards from Langwith Junction thrived whilst that to the west via Clowne withered.

By the mid-1960s it was realised that the traffic from all sources running through Clowne South and through Elmton and Creswell on what is now the Robin Hood Line could be accommodated entirely on the latter.

The solution adopted was to build a brand new connection between the LD&ECR and MR lines across fields near Langwith Colliery.

[19] This enabled east to northwest traffic to travel through Langwith Junction, head off towards Clowne South, then veer right onto the Robin Hood Line facing north.

The effect was to render the track between the new connection line, through Clowne South to Westthorpe Colliery, Killamarsh redundant, so it was closed and lifted.

The adjacent stationmaster's house has undergone a rescue and revival; having at one time looked derelict, it is a business centre and has externally been sympathetically restored to its typical LDECR appearance.