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General information | |
Location | Fiskerton, Newark and Sherwood England |
Grid reference | SK729520 |
Managed by | East Midlands Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | FSK |
Classification | DfT category F2 |
Passengers | |
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Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Fiskerton railway station,is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line,situated 3 mi (4.8 km) south-east of the small town of Southwell and serves the village of Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire,England.
The station opened on 4 August 1846 by the Midland Railway. [1] It was taken over by the London,Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923,and by British Rail in 1948.
A signal box was installed at the station in 1902. This Midland Railway Type 3a box was downgraded to a gate box from 2 December 1934. [2]
A new junction was laid between Fiskerton and the Rolleston Junction to Southwell line in 1929 to allow mineral trains from Mansfield and district to access Nottingham without reversing at Rolleston Junction. [3] At the same time a new signal box was built to a Midland Railway Type 3c design with a 30 lever frame and gate wheel to operate the level crossing barriers. [4] The curve closed on 1 March 1965 and the railway junction was abolished.
It is managed by the East Midlands Railway,which provides services to the station.
Signalling on the line was upgraded in 2016 when the manual signal boxes were decommissioned and control transferred to the East Midlands Integrated Electronic Control Centre at Derby. [5]
In 2017,Network Rail announced that the platforms would be extended to cater for longer trains. [6]
In 2020 Network Rail announced a plan to relocate the signal box to the Vale of Berkley Railway in Gloucestershire. [7]
The station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern help points. The full range of tickets can be purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost as there are no retail facilities at this station. [15]
East Midlands Railway operate all services at Fiskerton using Class 156, 158 and 170 DMUs. [16]
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [17] [18]
The station is also served by a small number of trains between Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln and Grimsby Town as well by one per day to, and from London St Pancras International which is operated using a Class 222 Meridian.
On Sundays, there is roughly an hourly service between Nottingham and Lincoln from mid-morning onwards with no service to and from London.
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Terminus | Midland Railway Fiskerton to Mansfield | Line and station closed |
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