Langley Mill

12th August 2007

This is where it all started for me really as I used to go on the station here before it closed at the end of 1966 and the station yard was a spotters meeting place throughout the 70s and early 80s.
Until the closure of Moorgreen pit in 1985 there was a substantial yard in use here where MGRs were assembled for despatch to Ratcliffe power station and cabbing locos was always a popular thing for the local spotters.
Much time was spent on the old 'Iron Bridge' here, another one replaced by a much uglier modern structure this time in June 1982.
There was in those days an iron works, a hosiery factory, a pottery and a gasworks surrounding the railway , virtually all of which has gone now although in Heanor Haulage's yard (once Redpath and Dorman Longs ironworks) you often see a loco en route somwehere on a low loader.

Langley Mill Station 8 Sept 2009 1200x1030	20134 and 20190 approach Langley Mill on Jan 2 1979 with a short coal train. 1024x636	20157/121 pass the future site of Langley Mill station 12 March 1985 3036x2076	25200 Shunting Langley Mill yard Feb 3rd 1981 1024x725
25200 and 47276 in Langley Mill yard Feb 3 1981 1024x635	31455 at Langley Mill with the 1051 to Nottingham in September 1987 1024x768	37200/201 heading toward Langley Mill on an MGR 18/3/85 1024x720	37688 Langley Mill 3/7/97 1024x768
43052 and 43044 at Langley Mill on a diverted Sheffield-St panc workong 1/12/02. 1024x671	43100/198 unusually on the slow lines near Langley Mill March 1985 1024x617	45028 passing Langley Mill 11 Aug 1978 on the afternoon Nottingham-Glasgow train. 1306x880	45118 on undentified passenger Saturday 23/3/85 1024x672
Peak heading south on a Sheffield-St Pancras express 11 August 1978 1024x663	A view of Langley Mill yard on June 23 1980 as 47135 passes with the Harwich-Manchester 'Boat' train, always a Stratford working, usually a 47 but occasionally a 37. 1024x726	47482 on the 'Boat train' Langley Mill 30/3/85 1024x645	56035 in Loadhaul livery approaching Cromford Road bridge 15/7/98 1024x692
56041 passing Langley Mill station 3/7/97 on up MGR 1024x650	56052 on down MGR empties passing the yard at Langley Mill 29/6/81 1024x641	56062/018 at Langley Mill 1 Dec 2002 on an unidentified working. 1761x1152	56062 approaching Langley Mill past the huge opencast near Stoneyford with a Doncaster-Mountsorrel ballast empties 3/7/97 1024x725
58013 passing the site of Langley Mill yard Feb 18 1997 1024x666	66211 approaching Langley mill with an up coal working 16/3/04 1024x683	A pair of 20s head north from Langley Mill towards Stoneyford in August 1981. 1024x574	One of Moorgreen Pit's Sentinel 0-8-0s D12 returning to the pit from Langley Mill after depositing loaded MGR wagons 29/6/81 1024x785