page_title: Charwelton railway station
section_title: Ironstone railway
hierarchical_section_title: Charwelton railway station / Ironstone railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Manning, Wardle 0-6-0ST №14 Charwelton on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
context_page_description: Charwelton railway station was a station at Charwelton in Northamptonshire on the former Great Central Railway main line, the last main line to be built from the Northern England to London. The station opened with the line on 15 March 1899.
context_section_description: In 1917 the Park Gate Iron and Steel Company, based at Parkgate near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, opened an ironstone quarry 0.5 miles (800 m) south of the nearby village of Hellidon, and had a 1.5-mile (2 km) standard gauge mineral railway built to bring the stone to the main line.
  Quarrying ceased in June 1933 but the Ministry of Supply ordered its resumption in May 1941. It ceased again in October 1945, but was resumed yet again in May 1951. At its peak Charwelton goods yard was busy with up to 200 wagons stabled in its sidings at any one time. As late as 1961 a new quarry was opened at Hellidon, but this proved less successful and so both quarry and line closed on 18 November that same year, the branch being dismantled in June 1963 and the sidings at Charwelton following in 1964.
  A steam locomotive called Charwelton was built for the line in 1917, worked it until 1942, and is now preserved on the Kent and East Sussex Railway.
caption: The steam locomotive Charwelton pulled ironstone trains from a quarry south of Hellidon to Charwelton station from 1917 until 1942
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