Ollerton railway station

Ollerton
General information
Location	Ollerton, Newark and Sherwood England
Coordinates	53°11′39″N1°01′45″W / 53.1943°N 1.0291°W / 53.1943; -1.0291
Grid reference	SK 649 667
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	LD&ECR
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways
Key dates
15 December 1896	Opened
19 September 1955	scheduled services ended
6 September 1964	excursions end, station closed
6 July 1991	reopened
8 July 1991	Closed [1]

v t e Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway
Legend
Chesterfield (Market Place) Boythorpe Viaduct over MR Brampton Branch and Boythorpe Railway   Horns Bridge over Midland Main Line GCR Chesterfield Loop River Rother Duckmanton Tunnel Great Central Main Line Arkwright Town Arkwright Town Jct (1907) River Doe Lea Doe Lea Viaduct over MR Doe Lea Branch Bolsover South Bolsover Tunnel Scarcliffe Summit MML to St Pancras Sheffield Midland Attercliffe Road (MR) Rotherham Masborough West Tinsley (SDR) Catcliffe (SDR) Rotherham Masborough Treeton (MR) Woodhouse Mill (MR) Beighton (GCR) Beighton Junction Killamarsh West (MR) Beighton (GCR) Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Spinkhill Tunnel Clowne South Summit Markland Grips Viaduct Creswell and Welbeck Shirebrook North (Originally Langwith Junction) Langwith Junction shed Shirebrook South GNR to Nottingham Victoria (1901) Shirebrook West MR (now Robin Hood Line) Nottingham Midland to Worksop Warsop Clipstone Colliery Sidings Mansfield Railway to Nottingham Victoria (from 1917) Edwinstowe Ollerton Boughton Tuxford Central Tuxford Works Tuxford shed Dukeries Junction GNR (now ECML) Kings Cross to Retford Fledborough Fledborough Viaduct over River Trent Clifton-on-Trent Doddington and Harby Skellingthorpe GN&GEJR to Saxilby Pyewipe Junction Lincoln to Peterborough

LD&ECR and Sheffield District Railway

1950 Excursion Advert

Ollerton railway station is a former railway station in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, England.

History

The station was opened by the LD&ECR in 1896 and closed to local passenger traffic in 1955, though Summer holiday excursions to and from the East Coast continued to call until September 1964. ^{[2] [3]}

The station, ^{[4] [5]} goods shed ^[6] and signalbox ^[7] were built to standard LD&ECR patterns. Large water tanks were erected at both ends of the site. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

Former services

Two services called at Ollerton in 1922, but not on Sundays.

Three trains per day ran between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln. These called at all stations. ^[12] The truncated remains of this service ended in September 1955. ^[8]

Three trains per day terminated at Ollerton from Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central then went back again half an hour or so later. ^[13] This service was later cut back to Edwinstowe. ^[14] A fourth train ran to Nottingham Victoria Monday to Friday, but on Saturdays it started from Lincoln and ran through to Leicester Central. ^[15] This service did not survive the Second World War.

Summer Saturday holiday trains survived until 1964. ^{[16] [17]}

Royal trains

As a marketing device the LD&ECR called itself "The Dukeries Route" because the line passed through an area of great landed estates. This led to visits to the area by Queen Victoria's son Edward, first as Prince of Wales and later as King Edward VII, usually in connection with a race meeting such as the St Leger. The Royal Train used Ollerton station ^[18] from which the Royal Party went to a ducal residence by road. ^{[19] [20]}

Coal

A branch was built to serve Ollerton Colliery which opened in 1926. ^[21] This branch has now been severed from the "Main Line". ^[22] In the mid-twentieth century, the LMS and LNER jointly proposed a coal line to be called the Mid-Notts Joint Railway from Bestwood Park Junction, near Nottingham to Checker House Junction on the former GCR line near Retford. Only the section between Ollerton and Farnsfield was built. ^[23] The southern section to Bestwood Park was completed in the 1950s to serve the new Calverton Colliery. ^[24]

Further eastwards the line climbed at around 1-in-150 towards Boughton as it crossed a ridge before the valley of the River Trent. ^[25]

Modern times

The line through Ollerton Station was reopened to non-passenger traffic in August 2009 as the High Marnham Test Track. The line is used by Network Rail to test new engineering trains and on-track plant.

The new test line runs from Thoresby Colliery Junction to the site of the partially demolished High Marnham Power Station, and passes former station sites of Ollerton, Boughton, Tuxford Central and Dukeries Junction, all these stations were closed by 1955. ^[26]

The platforms remained in place in Spring 2018, 54 years after closure. ^[27]

The future

There have been hypothetical suggestions of reopening the line as a branch off the Robin Hood Line and reopening Warsop, Edwinstowe and Ollerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham. ^{[28] [29] [30]}

Former Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Edwinstowe Line and station closed		Great Central Railway Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway		Boughton Line and station closed

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 178.
2. Walker 1991, Inside front cover.
3. Waller 2004, p. 38.
4. Kaye 1988, p. 72.
5. Dow 1965, p. 166.
6. Collinson 2010a, p. 21.
7. Ollerton station :via PictureThePast
8. Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 53.
9. Garratt & Priestley 1996, p. 7.
10. Anderson 2013, p. 340.
11. Stephen 2018, p. 52.
12. Bradshaw 1985, p. 718.
13. Bradshaw 1985, p. 701.
14. Cupit 1956, p. 61.
15. Bradshaw 1985, p. 696.
16. 1964 Working Timetable (Up): via flickr
17. 1964 Working Timetable (Down): via flickr
18. Gilks 2002, p. 205.
19. Cupit & Taylor 1984, pp. 36–8.
20. Booth 2013, p. 33.
21. DVD2 2005, film, 49-55 mins from start.
22. Collinson 2010b, p. 33.
23. Booth 2013, p. 38.
24. Cupit & Taylor 1984, p. 19.
25. NoAuthor 2011, p. 16.
26. "Preparing for the Future: Network Rail Opens Vehicle Development Centre". Press Releases (Press release). Network Rail. 10 July 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
27. Stephen 2018, p. 53.
28. Lambourne, Helen (22 July 2009). "New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton". Worksop Today. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
29. "Town's history of rail". Chad, 26 February, 2014, pp.18-19. Accessed 9 March, 2023
30. Stephen 2018, pp. 48–53.

Sources

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• Anderson, Paul; Cupit, Jack (2000). An Illustrated History of Mansfield's Railways. Clophill: Irwell Press. ISBN   978-1-903266-15-1.
• Booth, Chris (2013). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches. Vol. Two: Langwith Junction to Lincoln, the Mansfield Railway and Mid Nott's Joint Line. Blurb. ISBN   978-1-78155-660-3. 06884827.
• Bradshaw, George (1985) [July 1922]. Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland: A reprint of the July 1922 issue. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN   978-0-7153-8708-5. OCLC   12500436.
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• Collinson, Kim (March 2010). Gellatly, Bob (ed.). "On Great Central Lines Today". Forward. Anston: Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society. 163. ISSN   0141-4488.
• Collinson, Kim (September 2010). Gellatly, Bob (ed.). "On Great Central Lines Today". Forward. Anston: Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society. 165. ISSN   0141-4488.
• Cupit, Jack (February 1956). Allen, G. Freeman (ed.). "The end of Passenger Services on the Mansfield Railway". Trains Illustrated . Hampton Court, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. IX (2).
• Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nd ed.). Headington: Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-302-2. OL19.
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN   978-0-7110-0263-0. OCLC   500447049.
• DVD2 (2005). Diesels Along:-The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. Chesterfield: Terminus Publications. DVD, stills and film with commentary, 60 mins.
• Garratt, Colin; Priestley, Henry (1996). Great Railway Photographers - Henry Priestley. Newton Harcourt: Milepost 92.5. ISBN   978-1-900193-50-4.
• Gilks, David (April 2002). Blakemore, Michael (ed.). "Mr. Arkwright's Railway". Back Track. Penryn: Atlantic Publishers. 16 (4).
• Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN   978-0-946930-09-8.
• NoAuthor (2011) [1948]. British Railways Atlas 1947: The Last Days of the Big Four. Shepperton: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN   978-0-7110-3643-7.
• Stephen, Paul (May 2018). Harris, Nigel (ed.). "Robin Hood Line: time for an extension?". RAIL . Peterborough: Bauer Media. 853. ISSN   0953-4563.
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Further reading

• Ludlam, A.J. (March 2013). Kennedy, Rex (ed.). "The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway". Steam Days. Bournemouth: Redgauntlet 1993 Publications. 283. ISSN   0269-0020.

External links

• Ollerton railway station on navigable 1947 O.S. Map npe Maps
• Ollerton signalbox pictures Signalboxes
• High Marnham Test Track photos Signalboxes
• Ollerton Colliery history Ollerton and Area
• 2016 Ollerton re-opening meeting Notts TV