Mansfield railway station
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| Location | |||
| Place | Mansfield | ||
| Local authority | Mansfield | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | MFT | ||
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Rail Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.375 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.379 million | ||
| History | |||
| Key dates | Opened 1872 Closed 1955 Reopened 1995 |
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| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mansfield from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |||
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Mansfield railway station serves the large town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. Alternatively it is named Mansfield Town, probably to distinguish itself from Mansfield Woodhouse. The station is 27 km (17 miles) north of Nottingham on the Robin Hood Line and is managed by East Midlands Trains.
The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.
Before the station was re-opened in 1995, the town was the largest in the United Kingdom without one, all the more remarkable when it is considered that Mansfield pioneered the railway in the East Midlands. The then nearest railway station, Alfreton, was known as "Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway".
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[edit] Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service from Mansfield to Nottingham (southbound) and Mansfield Woodhouse (northbound) with an hourly service onwards to Worksop. Evenings, there is an hourly service to Nottingham and Worksop with no trains on Sundays. Although, from December 2008 a new, approximately hourly, Sunday service in both directions will start.
[edit] History
The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built in 1819. It was bought by the Midland Railway which used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849. However in the 1970s the line ceased to travel via Mansfield.
A second station was built in 1882 by the Great Northern Railway. It opened a station on a branch from Bulwell on its Derbyshire Extension. From the early 1950s, this line ceased carrying passengers and remained as a freight only line, and the station has been demolished.
The station building acquired listed building status, however Mansfield remained isolated from the railway system until 1995 when the Robin Hood Line was re-opened to Nottingham
[edit] Future
Former operator Central Trains has been replaced by a new company called East Midlands Trains from November 2007 which operates all services in the East Midlands. The franchise is operated by the Stagecoach group and will be running a Sunday service from the December 2008.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Mansfield railway station from National Rail
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Sutton Parkway | East Midlands Trains Robin Hood Line |
Mansfield Woodhouse | ||
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