Radcliffe railway station

Radcliffe
Location
Place Radcliffe on Trent
Local authority Rushcliffe
Operations
Station code RDF
Managed by East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
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Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 9,565
2005/06 * 10,892
2006/07 * 9,326
2007/08 * 13,305
2008/09 * 11,874
2009/10 * 7,644
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Radcliffe from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Radcliffe Railway Station is on the Nottingham/Grantham mainline 8 km (5 mi) east of Nottingham, connecting the village of Radcliffe on Trent to such places to Nottingham, Grantham, Boston and Skegness.

Radcliffe station has remained open, where a lot of Nottinghamshire railway stations have closed over the years.

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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. The station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway opened in 1879 from Saxondale Junction, a few miles east of the station. The London and North Western Railway then provided a Nottingham to Northampton service which ceased in 1953.

The station was renamed from Radcliffe on Trent to Radcliffe on 6 May 1974.[2]

Services

As of December 2010 there are five trains each day to Nottingham and four to Skegness, with a single late evening service terminating at Boston.[3] All services are provided by East Midlands Trains, usually using Class 156 or Class 158 units. Express services between Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street pass through the station non-stop.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
East Midlands Trains
Disused railways
Netherfield   Great Northern Railway
Nottingham to Grantham
Nottingham to Newark		   Bingham
Netherfield   London and North Western Railway
Nottingham to Northampton		   Bingham Road

References

  1. ^ Kingscott, G., (2004) Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books
  2. ^ Slater, J.N., ed (July 1974). "Notes and News: Stations renamed by LMR". Railway Magazine (London: IPC Transport Press Ltd) 120 (879): 363. ISSN 0033-8923. 
  3. ^ "Table 19". National Rail Timetable. December 2010. http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/Dec10/timetables/Table19.pdf. 

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