Trains to Chesterfield - Station Details and further Information on Chesterfield Train Services
Chesterfield train station is a medium-sized train station, 12 miles south of Sheffield train station and to the east of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, town centre. Four tracks go through it; two fast lines (for all passenger trains) pass through the station and two goods lines bypass the station to the East.
Entrance to the station is on Crow Lane and includes a car park, taxi rank and bus stop. There is also a small car park on the other side of Crow Lane which does not have a parking charge. The main entrance leads to the station concourse, which is very spacious and was built in the late 1990s. It includes a ticket office, a newsagent, a café and a waiting room. The concourse and the waiting room both have direct access to platform 1. There is also a waiting room on platform 2, which is accessed via a tunnel, using the stairs or lift in the concourse.
The fast lines have two large side platforms - one for each direction. The goods lines do not have platforms and pass around the rear of platform 2. The platforms are covered for around half their length.
Platform 1 is for northbound trains for stations towards Sheffield, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Liverpool Lime Street, Leeds, York, Doncaster, Newcastle, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central.
Platform 2 is for southbound trains, calling at stations towards London St Pancras International, Derby, Nottingham, Peterborough, Norwich, Cambridge, Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff Central, Bournemouth, Southampton, Plymouth and Paignton.
Northern Rail run a hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds that stops at Chesterfield. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change. The 07:39 East Midlands Trains Master Cutler service runs to London via Derby and Leicester Mondays to Fridays providing a fast business train, arriving at London by 09:37.
The building of an additional platform at Chesterfield station was planned for 2007/8. This was to be built to go with the East Midlands North Erewash resignalling scheme and would have allowed passenger services to run on the bi-directional down slow line (goods line) from a new Chesterfield South Junction to Tapton Junction during perturbation or engineering work on the fast lines in this area. |