Rolleston railway station

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Rolleston

Looking west towards the shelter, old station house, and level crossing

Location

Place

Rolleston

Local authority

Newark and Sherwood

Operations

Station code

ROL

Managed by

East Midlands Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

8,195

2005/06 *

7,899

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rolleston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Rolleston station is around half a mile from the small village of Rolleston, one of the Trent side villages close to Southwell in Nottinghamshire. As well as the village of Rolleston, the station is convenient for Southwell Racecourse, to which it is directly adjacent.

Rolleston is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, its neighbouring stations being Newark castle, around 4 miles east, and Fiskerton, around 3/4 mile west. Rolleston is served hourly by East Midlands Trains, and is usually a request stop.

The station was previously known as Rolleston Junction, as it used to be the junction for the railway line to Southwell and Mansfield, which in its latter years played host to the locally-loved 'Southwell Paddy' service. This line closed under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s.