Scarcliffe railway station

As originally planned, this was a highly ambitious scheme, as its name suggests, but only two sections were ever built: the main line between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln Central, together with a branch from Langwith Junction to join the Sheffield District Railway at Beighton, thereby finding its way to Sheffield Midland.

A short distance to the east of the station, in woods on the south side the tracks was a railway-owned reservoir, fed by the River Poulter which rose at Palterton.

This reservoir served the seven water columns at Langwith Junction engine shed and station via a 3" main beside the tracks.

The station has been razed to the ground, but the characteristic LD&ECR Stationmaster's house survives as a private dwelling.

The early ones are posed scenes of Stationmaster Lund and his young family standing proudly on their quintessentially rural station.