Until 2013, the trackbed was overgrown and the track was still in situ. It was lifted in 2016 and the trackbed of the Clowne Branch Line is now the Clowne Greenway. This runs from Creswell to the former junction between the Doe Lea and Clowne Branches. Nothing remains of the station. The trackbed is out of use but still owned by Network Rail. The street level booking office in Fan Road still stands at the rear of AVS Superstore. Although modernised it is clearly recognisable as the original building.

Notes: Staveley Town was a junction station, with a single platform, for services on the Clowne and Doe Lea Branch Lines. It was the second station to open after the neighbouring station of Barrow Hill. The station was located east of Staveley Central on the Great Central Main Line. It was opened on the line from Mansfield Woodhouse to Chesterfield on the North Midland Railway aka the 'Old Road' route. The station was located in a cutting under the A619 and the line was double tracked to the junction of both branch lines. However, it became single tracked after it on both branch lines respectively.

Originally the station was opened as Netherthorpe on the 1 November, 1888 and served as the terminus of the single track Clowne Branch. The Doe Lea Branch was opened on the 1 September, 1889. The station became a through station following the opening of that line. The station was then renamed Netherthorpe for Staveley Town on the 25 October, 1893. The station was finally renamed Staveley Town on the 1st June, 1900.

The station initially consisted of a single platform on the west side of the line. There was a street level booking office on Fan Road from where an inclined path led down the embankment to the platform where a waiting room and toilets were located. At some time, probably in the 1920s, the line through the station was doubled and a second platform with a crossover at its south end was added. This was reached by a footbridge from the booking office leading to another inclined path down the embankment. This platform was also provided with a waiting room and toilets. The station was one of three stations serving the mining town of Staveley. Staveley Central was on the adjacent Great Central line. It was also confusingly also called Staveley Town until renamed Staveley Central on 25 September 1950, less than two years before the Midland station closed. The thirds station was Staveley Works on the Great Central's Chesterfield Loop. Staveley Town never handed goods traffic.

Staveley Town signal box was on the east side of the line to the south of the station. It controlled the crossover and the Ireland Colliery sidings.

With closure of the Doe Lea Branch on the 28 July, 1930 the station continued to serve the Clowne branch until that too closed to passenger traffic on the 5 August 1952 when the station closed completely. The line from Bolsover to Ramcroft Colliery was closed in 1966. The line was then closed to Glapwell Colliery in 1974 and the line south of Bolsover to Glapwell Colliery on the 31 October, 1978. The line was officially taken out of use and lifted.

The line was maintained between Bolsover, Creswell and Staveley for coal mining around the local area until the full closure of the line in 1994 to both Bolsover and Markham Collieries. The line was mothballed in 2004 following Coalite, who were still using the line for coal, going into receivership. The line was lifted at Bolsover in the early 2010s. The track ballast remains in situ but nothing of the station remains apart from the street level booking office.

The line between Staveley and Creswell was closed in July of 2006 following the closure of the line to coal traffic to an opencast mine near Staveley. The line was in situ until 2016, when Derbyshire County Council bought the line between Seymour Junction and Creswell to make it a greenway and it uses the whole line of the Clowne branch. It is protected for future use by railway.

The site of Staveley Town has now been cleared of overgrowth and is inaccessible due to it still being classed as an active line. There were recently suggestions on reopening the two lines to the newly built Markham Vale Enterprise Park to work freight traffic to a road-rail interchange. However, nothing has come of this. And there is also talk of the reopening of Barrow Hill station for passengers, which would see the line between Chesterfield and Rotherham possibly reopening to passengers.

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See Also Staveley Central & Staveley Works