Sutton Parkway railway station

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Sutton Parkway
Location
Place	Sutton-in-Ashfield
Local authority	Ashfield
Operations
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Platforms in use	2
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.126 million
2005/06 *	0.126 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1995
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sutton Parkway from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Sutton Parkway railway station serves the town of Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 23 km (17 miles) north of Nottingham on the Robin Hood Line.

Contents 1 Services 2 Facilities 3 Future 4 Local Transport Connections 5 External links

[edit] Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is generally a half-hourly service from Sutton Parkway to southbound to Nottingham. There are two trains per hour northbound, one terminating at Mansfield Woodhouse and the other at Worksop. Evenings hourly in each direction and no service on Sundays

[edit] Facilities

Access to the platforms is at street level with car parks located on both sides of the platforms given excellent access for the disabled.

There are no toilet facilities on this station.

[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Former operator Central Trains has been replaced by a new company called East Midlands Trains from November 2007 which operates all services in the East Midlands.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 who have announced the introduction of an hourly Sunday service from December 2008. A new timetable will come into force from December 8th.

[edit] Local Transport Connections

The station is located more than 2 miles from the centre of town and there is only an hourly bus service operating outside the station by Trent Barton to the local area. If you wish to complete you journey by bus it is strongly recommended that you use Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station and use the connecting bus services by Trent Barton to Sutton-in-Ashfield.

There is no taxi rank at this station

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Sutton Parkway railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kirkby-in-Ashfield		East Midlands Trains Robin Hood Line		Mansfield