Alfreton railway station

Alfreton
Alfreton railway station in 2008
Location
Place	Alfreton
Local authority	Borough of Amber Valley
Grid reference	SK422561
Operations
Station code	ALF
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.151 million
2005/06	0.154 million
2006/07	0.157 million
2007/08	0.135 million
2008/09	0.159 million
2009/10	0.188 million
2010/11	0.205 million
2011/12	0.212 million
2012/13	0.225 million
2013/14	0.241 million
History
1 May 1862	Station opens as Alfreton
7 November 1891	Station renamed Alfreton and South Normanton
2 January 1967	Station closes
7 May 1973	Station reopens as Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway
1995	Station renamed Alfreton
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Alfreton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Alfreton railway station serves the town of Alfreton in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Erewash Valley Line 18 ¹⁄₄ miles (29.4 km) north of Nottingham.

As of late 2009 Alfreton is a Penalty fare station when travelling on East Midlands Trains services.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway as Alfreton on 1 May 1862, the station was renamed Alfreton and South Normanton on 7 November 1891.^[1][2] It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The British Railways Board then closed the station on 2 January 1967.

When the station re-opened on 7 May 1973, it was given the name Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway,^[1] as the nearby town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire did not have a railway station of its own (in fact, it was the largest town in Britain without one). Following the re-opening of the Robin Hood Line in 1995, Mansfield had its own station again, and Alfreton station reverted to its original name, however there are still some road signs showing the 'Parkway' name. Passenger usage figures seem not to have suffered due to the opening of a station in Mansfield itself.

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

Services

There is generally an hourly East Midlands Trains Local service northbound to Sheffield (and beyond) and southbound to Nottingham (and beyond).

Northern Rail run an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds that stops at Alfreton. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change.

A limited number of East Midlands Trains London services from Leeds, Sheffield and London run via the Erewash Valley Line and stop at Alfreton. At other times Interchange with London services can be made at Nottingham and Chesterfield.

Gallery

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  Up parcels in 1961. At that time a pair of goods lines ran outside the station on the right.

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  Up empties on the goods line in 1961.

References

Further reading

• 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. 
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978 0 901461 57 5. OCLC 612226077. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alfreton railway station.

• Train times and station information for Alfreton railway station from National Rail
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Langley Mill		East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich		Chesterfield
		Northern Rail Nottingham-Leeds
		East Midlands Trains Midland Main Line Limited Service

Coordinates: 53°06′00″N 1°22′12″W / 53.100°N 1.370°W / 53.100; -1.370