Basford North railway station

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Basford North
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Basford North Station on 21 August 1963
General information
Location Old Basford, Nottingham
England
Grid reference SK549439
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Great Northern Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 February 1876 [1] Opened as New Basford
1 August 1876Renamed Basford and Bulwell
21 September 1953Renamed Basford North
7 September 1964Closed to passengers
2 October 1967 [2] Goods facilities withdrawn

Basford North railway station was a railway station which served Basford and Bulwell in Nottinghamshire, England. It was close to the River Leen, which the line crossed on a nine-arch brick viaduct. [3]

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History

Built by the Great Northern Railway on its Derbyshire Extension in 1875–6 the station was originally called Dob Park, as it was built on land belonging to that estate, but was quickly renamed to Basford and Bulwell and later renamed again to Basford North in order to avoid confusion with the nearby Midland Railway station originally named Basford which opened in 1848. [1]

The station closed to passengers in 1964 and to goods three years later. There were further stations in Bulwell at Bulwell Common, Bulwell Forest and Bulwell Hall Halt. [4]

Station masters

  • Mr. Snell 1907 [5] - 1910 (also station master at Basford)
  • J. Davis 1910 - 1922 (formerly station master at Spondon)
  • Louis B. Parley ???? - 1928 [6] (afterwards station master at Spalding)
  • T. Hibbert 1931 - ????
  • W.W. Capon 1934 - 1936 [7] (afterwards station master at Nottingham Victoria)
  • A. Burton 1936 [8] - ???? (formerly station master at Beighton and also Woodhouse. Also appointed station master of New Basford)
  • W.H. Burton 1940 [9] - ???? (formerly station master at Woodhouse)
  • Herbert Bonner 1943 - 1945 [10]
  • G.O. Smith 1946 [11] - 1949 (formerly station master at Wrexham (Central), afterwards station master at Finsbury Park)
  • A. Shepherd 1950 [12] (formerly station master at Wrexham (Central))
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Daybrook   London Midland Region of British Railways
(Derby) Friargate Line 		  Kimberley

Present day

An industrial estate and a housing development completed in 2019 occupy the former site of the station. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN   1-85260-508-1, pp. 168, 29.
  2. ↑ Clinker, C.R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-AngliA Publications & Services. p. 103. ISBN   0-905466-19-5.
  3. ↑ Higginson, M., (1989) The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway, Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 18 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Items of Local Interest" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 3 June 1907. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Local Happenings" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 12 June 1928. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "New Stationmaster for Victoria" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 13 October 1936. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Stationmaster 's appointment at Basford" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 4 December 1936. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "New Bulwell Stationmaster" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 13 January 1940. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ "Man with a big job. Death of Local Rail Official" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 6 August 1945. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ↑ "New Stationmaster For Basford & Bulwell" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 31 January 1946. Retrieved 8 March 2020– via British Newspaper Archive.
  12. ↑ "New Basford Stationmaster" . Nottingham Evening Post. England. 14 February 1950. Retrieved 22 December 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ↑ Shannon, Paul (2007). Nottinghamshire (British Railways Past and Present). Kettering, Northants: Past & Present Publishing. p. 53. ISBN   978-1-85895-253-6.

   

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