Ilkeston Town Railway station not Ilkeston Victoria
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Ilkeston Town railway station was a railway station which served the town of Ilkeston in Derbyshire, England. it was opened in 1847 by the Midland Railway on a short branch from the Erewash Valley Line.
The original station was closed in May 1870 but remodelled in response to the arrival of the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) Derbyshire Extension line through its station later known as Ilkeston North. Ilkeston Town Station re-opened on 1 July 1879.
It carried a shuttle service from Ilkeston Junction which was never particularly popular since the GNR provided a direct main line service.[2] Some services were also provided to Nottingham and Chesterfield [3] From 1882 the former were routed along the Bennerley Junction route to Basford, with six services a day, but the they ended at the beginning of the First World War.[4]
In the Grouping of all lines (into four main companies) in 1923 the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway .
The branch had closed to passengers by the late 1940s and goods operations had ceased by 1960. The tracks were lifted and the footbridge removed. The site is now occupied by a roundabout at the end of Ilkeston's Chalons Way by-pass and a large Tesco supermarket. The route of the track roughly followed the recently built road named 'Millership Way'.