Rolleston railway station

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
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 8,195
2005/06 * 7,899
2006/07 * 8,342
2007/08 * 6,016
2008/09 * 7,804
History
Opened 1846 (1846)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rolleston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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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, England. The station is convenient for Southwell Racecourse, to which it is 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 to passengers in June 1959,[1] although the service beyond Southwell ended three decades earlier. The name also avoided confusion with Rolleston-on-Dove railway station on the line between Burton upon Trent and Egginton Junction.

References

  1. ^ The 150th anniversary of the coming of the railways to Newark was marked in 1996 Newark Advertiser article; retrieved 2009-04-22

External links

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