Tuxford North railway station

Tuxford North
Location
Place Tuxford
Area Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire
Grid reference SK 747 714
Operations
Original company Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping GNR
Post-grouping LNER
British Railways
Platforms 2
History
1852 Opened as Tuxford
1 July 1923 Renamed Tuxford North
July 1955 Closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Tuxford North railway station is a former railway station in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.

Ambiguity

There were three Tuxford stations, though none was very near the centre of the village. They were:

The positions of the three stations are most easily seen on the "External Links", below.

Context

The station was opened in 1852 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on its main line from Kings Cross to Doncaster. The GNR became part of the LNER in 1923 then British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station had two platforms and a signal box,[2][3] originally simply named "Tuxford", which controlled the Lincoln Road level crossing immediately north of the station. The road is now the A6075 and the level crossing has been replaced by a bridge over the busy tracks slightly to the South.

The station was closed in 1955 and has since been razed to the ground.

The tracks through the station site are now primarily used as part of the electrified East Coast Main Line.

A Railway Village

For 45 years from opening until 1897 the GNR station was the only Tuxford station. Local trains called, the next stops being Retford to the north and Crow Park to the south. In 1897 The LD&ECR opened its line from Chesterfield Market Place to Lincoln and turned Tuxford into something of a railway village overnight, by adding two extra stations, a locomotive works, an engine shed, two marshalling yards and a North-to-West connection ("chord") between the two lines. They also built earthworks for a South-to-West connection, but tracks were never laid.

Former Services

Tuxford's three stations were connected, effectively forming a triangle.[4][5] However, it was only ever possible to catch trains along two sides of the triangle, ie

Traffic along the third side of the triangle between Tuxford Central and Tuxford North was mainly freight, supplemented by Summer weekend excursions from the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire area to the Yorkshire Coast; these passed through both stations without stopping.[9]

In 1922

Of the five northbound stoppers, only two picked up at Dukeries Junction, except in Fridays when three picked up there. Similarly, three southbound trains called at Dukeries Junction, with a fourth on Fridays.

Only one train in each direction called at Tuxford North on Sundays, on which days Dukeries Junction was closed.[10]

Tuxford North stuttered along until July 1955 and Tuxford Central until September 1955, Dukeries Junction had closed in 1950. The Summer excursions continued to pass until 1964. The "third side of the triangle"[11][12] which connected Tuxford North and Central was closed in 1969.

Modern Times

Tracks through the site of Dukeries Junction's low level platforms were slewed when the East Coast Main Line was electrified, enabling trains to go faster. This erased any last trace of the low-level platforms. Unusually for those days, the high-level station buildings were removed in the 1950s.

The line through the sites of Tuxford Central and the high level platforms at Dukeries Junction became redundant when High Marnham Power Station closed in 2003, however, the line reopened in 2009 as High Marnham Test Track.

Former Services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Retford   British Railways
GNR		   Dukeries Junction

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 236.
  2. ↑ Lund 1999, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Tuxford North on Picture the Past website
  4. ↑ Kaye 1988, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Greening 1982, p. 63.
  6. ↑ Little Winter 2002, p. 2.
  7. ↑ Little Winter 2002, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Lund 1999, p. 24.
  9. ↑ Marsden 2004C, 4:30 minutes from start.
  10. ↑ Bradshaw 1985, pp. 332-343 & 718.
  11. ↑ Ludlam 2013, p. 137.
  12. ↑ Mitchell June 2008, p. 50.

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Coordinates: 53°14′4.45″N 0°52′54.11″W / 53.2345694°N 0.8816972°W