Nottingham London Road railway station

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Nottingham London Road
Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
3 October 1857Opened as Nottingham London Road[1]
15 March 1899Original station renamed Nottingham London Road Low Level.
24 May 1900High level station opened.
22 May 1944Low level closed to passengers.
3 July 1967High level closed to passengers.[1]
4 December 1972Goods services withdrawn[2]

Nottingham London Road railway station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on London Road Nottingham in 1857.[3]

History

The station was opened in 1857 by the

Midland station in Nottingham, but there were frequent disputes, especially when the GNR began running through trains from London King's Cross via Grantham in a shorter time than the Midland Railway could manage. To solve the problem, the GNR opened its own station served by a new line from near Netherfield
, adjacent to the Midland line whose tracks it had previously used.

When

Second World War before becoming a parcels depot until the 1970s.[5]

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel-multiple unit trains.[6]

Passengers services to the High Level station were withdrawn on 3 July 1967 when the service to Grantham was diverted to Nottingham Midland station. This left the only service using Victoria Station as that to Leicester Central and Rugby Central on the former Great Central route.

High Level platform in 1992
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Terminus  
(Derby) Friargate Line
   Gedling & Carlton
Terminus  
Nottingham to Grantham Line
   Nottingham Racecourse
Nottingham Victoria   Great Northern Railway
Nottingham to Grantham
Nottingham to Newark
Nottingham to Shirebrook
Nottingham to Basford & Bulwell 		  Netherfield
Nottingham Victoria   Great Northern Railway
Nottingham Suburban 		  Thorneywood

Present day

Although severely damaged by fire in 1996, the station building has been restored and was converted to a Holmes Place health and fitness club.[7] It is now used as a Virgin Active Health Club. The High Level station was demolished in 2006.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-85260-508-1
    , p. 175.
  2. ISBN 0-905466-19-5
    .
  3. ^ British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer.
  4. ^ Kingscott, G., (2004) Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books
  5. ^ LNWR GNR Joint Railway, "London Road".
  6. ^ "Train Service Alterations from Monday". Grantham Journal. England. 4 January 1963. Retrieved 18 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ISBN 978-1-85895-253-6
    .
  8. ISBN 978-1-901945-70-6
    .
  • A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. Volume 9 The East Midlands, Robin Leleux.

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