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Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station

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Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton. It served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes. The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on 24 March 1877, and was originally named Pye Hill; it was renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes on 8 January 1906, and closed on 7 January 1963. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

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Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station
Alfreton Road, Ashfield

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Pye Hill and Somercotes

Alfreton Road
DE55 4PE Ashfield
England, United Kingdom
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