Image Shirebook station
Shirebook station
Shirebook station To us spotters who started our hobby in the seventies, Shirebrook is probably most associated with a substantial diesel depot built to maintain and service the vast number of diesels that worked the coal trains of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfields. However, post the strike of 1984/5 followed by Thatcher and McGregor's policy to destroy any semblance of the industry and their policy to break the unions the depot faded out and closed. It can be seen in the back of this image still standing just beyond the station. The station was opened in 1875 eventually closing in 1964. It reopened in 1998 with regular trains on the Robin Hood line now serving it. Notice Andy on the platform looking at the information screen in the hope of a train arriving soon. Keywords: Shirebook station
Shirebook station To us spotters who started our hobby in the seventies, Shirebrook is probably most associated with a substantial diesel depot built to maintain and service the vast number of diesels that worked the coal trains of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfields. However, post the strike of 1984/5 followed by Thatcher and McGregor's policy to destroy any semblance of the industry and their policy to break the unions the depot faded out and closed. It can be seen in the back of this image still standing just beyond the station. The station was opened in 1875 eventually closing in 1964. It reopened in 1998 with regular trains on the Robin Hood line now serving it. Notice Andy on the platform looking at the information screen in the hope of a train arriving soon. Keywords: Shirebook station


To us spotters who started our hobby in the seventies,

Shirebrook is probably most associated with a substantial diesel depot built to maintain and service the vast number of diesels that worked the coal trains of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfields. However, post the strike of 1984/5 followed by Thatcher and McGregor's policy to destroy any semblance of the industry and their policy to break the unions the depot faded out and closed. It can be seen in the back of this image still standing just beyond the station. The station was opened in 1875 eventually closing in 1964. It reopened in 1998 with regular trains on the Robin Hood line now serving it. Notice Andy on the platform looking at the information screen in the hope of a train arriving soon.