Plumtree railway station

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Plumtree
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Main station building in 2008.
General information
Location Plumtree, Rushcliffe
England
Coordinates 52°53′07″N1°05′01″W / 52.885260°N 1.083498°W / 52.885260; -1.083498
Platforms2 [1]
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Midland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
2 February 1880 [2] Station opens as Plumtree & Keyworth
1 May 1893Renamed
28 February 1949Closes to passengers
1 November 1965 [3] Closes to goods

Plumtree railway station served the village of Plumtree in Nottinghamshire, England on the Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway between London and Nottingham, avoiding Leicester. The station is now a pub and grill an the line still is now used as the Old Dalby Test Track. Although is closed towards Nottingham way.

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History

The station was opened for goods (1 November 1879) [4] & passengers (2 February 1880) [4] by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. [5]

It was on its cut-off line from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham, which had opened the previous year to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham. It also improved access to and from the iron-ore fields in Leicestershire and Rutland. Local traffic was minimal and Plumtree closed to passengers as early as 1949. [6]

According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were handled by this station in 1956: G, P†, F, L, H, C and there was a 1-ton 10 cwt crane. [7]

In 1910, nine trains each way stopped at Plumtree Station. The earliest train to Nottingham was 7.02, and to Melton Mowbray 6.55. A passenger catching this latter service could expect to be in London St Pancras by 10.55 a.m. Sunday services were virtually non-existent, with only the morning milk train (7.49) to Nottingham (and no way of getting back that day!)

Stationmasters

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Edwalton   Midland Railway
Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway 		  Widmerpool

Present day

Following the closure of the line as a through-route in 1968, the track between Melton Mowbray and Nottingham was reused as far as Edwalton and became the Old Dalby Test Track. This was used initially for the Advanced Passenger Train project and, more recently, Class 390 Pendolino units. [10] It was also used for testing London Underground trains 'S Stock' units.

The main station buildings have survived and have been converted into 'Perkins Restaurant'. [11] A conservatory extension has been built on the platform and the former goods shed has been restored as a function room. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Old Dalby Test Track - Plumtree station" . Retrieved 11 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (October 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   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M. p. 186.
  3. ↑ Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Station, Avon Anglia ISBN   0-905466-19-5
  4. 1 2 Aldworth, Colin (2012). The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012.
  5. ↑ "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ Shannon, Paul (2007). Nottinghamshire (British Railways Past and Present). Kettering, Northants: Past & Present Publishing. p. 23. ISBN   978-1-85895-253-6.
  7. ↑ Official Handbook of Stations,British Transport Commission, 1956.
  8. ↑ "Plumtree" . Nottinghamshire Guardian. England. 18 February 1887. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Plumtree Stationmaster" . Nottingham Journal. England. 11 June 1936. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ↑ Shannon, P., p. 23.
  11. ↑ "Perkins Restaurant" . Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  12. ↑ "The Carriage Hall" . Retrieved 11 April 2010.
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