Aslockton railway station

Aslockton
Location
Place	Aslockton
Local authority	Rushcliffe
Operations
Station code	ALK
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	16,064
2005/06 *	18,538
2006/07 *	21,363
2007/08 *	21,473
2008/09 *	18,516
2009/10 *	13,712
History
Opened 15 July 1850 (15 July 1850)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aslockton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Aslockton railway station serves the villages of Aslockton and Whatton in Nottinghamshire. The station is 17 km (10¾ miles) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham-Skegness Line.

Contents 1 History 2 Current Services 3 Former Services 4 References 5 External links

History

It is located on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway in 1850 and taken over by the Great Northern Railway^[1]

The station itself was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857. The station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Current Services

There is only a limited service to the station, with most trains timed for Nottingham commuters i.e. early morning into Nottingham and returning late afternoon evening. There are two trains in each direction on a Sunday.

There is one daily service from Norwich to Liverpool Lime Street via Manchester, also calling at Radcliffe-on-Trent, Bingham and Netherton.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Bingham		East Midlands Trains Nottingham-Skegness		Elton and Orston

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bingham		Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham Nottingham to Newark		Elton

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Aslockton railway station from National Rail
• Aslockton Station Master's House
• Train at Aslockton Station
• PDF with images of signal box and station