Swanwick Junction railway station
Swanwick Junction railway station is a heritage railway station situated on the former Ambergate to Pye Bridge Line which closed in 1968, but has been partially reopened by the Midland Railway - Butterley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Riddings, the UK
- Also known as: “Midland Railway - (Swanwick Junction Station)” and “Swanwick Junction Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Butterley railway station and Butterley Reservoir.
Butterley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Butterley railway station is a preserved railway station on the Heritage Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire. Butterley railway station is situated 3,800 feet west of Swanwick Junction railway station.
Butterley Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
Butterley Reservoir is a reservoir in Derbyshire, England. The reservoir was built to provide water for the Cromford Canal which opened for use in 1794.
Hammersmith railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hammersmith railway station is a heritage railway station on the Midland Railway – Butterley in Derbyshire. There was no station at this point originally, being situated on the Ambergate–Pye Bridge line. Hammersmith railway station is situated 1 mile west of Swanwick Junction railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riddings and Butterley.
Riddings
Village
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Riddings is a large village in Derbyshire, England. The appropriate ward of the Amber Valley Council is called Ironville and Riddings. The population of this ward as at the 2011 census was 5,821.
Butterley
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Butterley is a village in the civil parish of Ripley, in the Amber Valley district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The area is dominated by the now disused site of the Butterley Company and the Butterley Reservoir.
Leabrooks
Village
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Leabrooks is a small urban locality in Derbyshire that merges with the village of Somercotes and the locality of Greenhill Lane. It is named after a stream, the Lee Brook, which formerly ran through it after rising on an area known as The Lees.
Swanwick Junction railway station
- Categories: tourism, station, and transportation
- Location: Swanwick, Amber Valley District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.06395° or 53° 3′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.38386° or 1° 23′ 2″ westElevation
361 feet (110 metres)Open location code
9C5W3J78+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 10195847411OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=preserved_railway
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to French—“Swanwick Junction railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Swanwick Junction”
- French: “Swanwick Junction”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Swanwick Junction railway station”. Photo: Dave Hitchborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.