Glapwell colliery had brought people to live and work, but was not provided with a station other than a collier's platform at the pit.
[9][10][11] Although the local service was withdrawn, Bolsover station proved to be a remarkable survivor, bringing passenger trains to part of the branch for a further 50 years.
[14][11][10] This had been on the initiative of the headmaster of Bolsover Church of England Junior School as there were insufficient buses to take all the children to the event.
[citation needed] Thereafter, there were yearly August excursions from 1978 until 1981 organised by Bolsover Miners' Welfare when trains of at least nine coaches ran to Scarborough.
Until the advent of British Rail Class 20 diesels in the early 1960s the characteristic motive power along the branch were the ubiquitous Midland 3F and LMS 4F 0-6-0s hauling the dominant traffic – coal.
[18] Ramcroft Colliery closed in 1966 and Glapwell followed in 1974, rendering the line south of Bolsover redundant, though it was not lifted until 1978.
The branch between Bolsover Castle and the bottom of Rylah Hill between Palterton and M1 J29 is now a public bridleway known as The Stockley Trail.
Parts of the trackbed in the vicinity of Pleasley West and those of neighbouring lines have been turned into public footpaths and bridleways.
[23] It was originally hoped that someone would invest in this infrastructure to create road-rail interchange facilities, however several studies have appraised the cost benefit of this link, and it seems unlikely to progress.
A more likely alternative seems to be the extension of the Stockley Trail Greenway along the original track bed, and through the redeveloped Coalite site, connecting into the Markham Vale Scheme and affording a near direct link to the Trans Pennine Trail through Poolsbrook Country Park The Clowne Branch was purchased in 2016 by Derbyshire County Council and is planned to be developed into a full Greenway all the way to the east and to provide a sustainable transport link with Creswell Rail Station.