 The intersecting services along the Beighton Branch were withdrawn on the outbreak of the Second World War with Mansfield Central services ending by 1945, leaving Chesterfield Market Place with two all stations trains to Lincoln plus some shorter workings to Shirebrook North and to Bolsover.The station's moment of glory came in August 1948 when its considerable amount of unused track and space was put to work to house the Stephenson Centenary Exhibition of locomotives and rolling stock.As a last hurrah special trains were run to the seaside shortly before the station closed to passengers on 3 December 1951.