Sutton-in-Ashfield railway station

This article is about the former Midland Railway station. For nearby former stations, see Sutton Junction railway station, Sutton-in-Ashfield Central railway station, and Sutton-in-Ashfield Town railway station. For present day, see Sutton Parkway railway station.

Sutton-in-Ashfield
The former station site in 2005 as a multi-outlet retail park
General information
Location	Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire England
Coordinates	53°07′24″N1°15′26″W / 53.1233°N 1.2572°W / 53.1233; -1.2572
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 May 1893 [1]	Station opened
1 January 1917	station closed
9 July 1923	reopened
26 Sept 1949	Station closed for regular passenger service
1 October 1951	workmen service withdrawn

Sutton-in-Ashfield railway station, sometimes referred to as "Sutton-in-Ashfield General", was a dead-end station on a short branch line from Sutton Junction in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Located off Station Road and opened in 1893, it offered a service with arrival much closer to Sutton-in-Ashfield town centre.

It was one of 4 stations that served to settlement of Sutton in Ashfield. The two Midland Stations (Sutton Junction and the branch line to Sutton in Ashfield). Both long gone; the branch line station now has a Matalan store where it once stood. Then there was the Great Northern station which has a few remains near Asda in the middle of town and lastly, Sutton Central station which was built by the Great Central railway and is now under the A38 bypass.

The short branch-line ride, was known as the Penny Emma because it cost one pre-decimal penny to travel along the MR (Emma)to Sutton Junction station. It became popular with locals and particularly as a children's treat. ^[2] The name 'Penny Emma Way' was applied when creating a link road near to the rail line and modern-day Sutton in Ashfield station on the Robin Hood Line service which uses the same Midland Railway line from Nottingham as it did before. ^{[3] [4]}

The Great Northern railway station was located nearby.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and was in use until 1951. Afterwards the station was demolished and the area redeveloped.

Stationmasters

• Charles Snell 1894 ^[5] - 1905 (formerly station master at Sutton Junction)
• Robert Herbert 1905 - 1912
• Horace Wroughton 1912 ^[6] - ca. 1917
• E.S. French from 1937 ^[7] (formerly station master at Market Rasen)

The site today

The station site was demolished and used for retail motor trade purposes by dealership Blackton Ford, ^[8] then was later redeveloped as Portland Retail Park, a multi-outlet shopping parade, ^{[9] [10] [11]} with hardly any evidence of the railway ever being there.

The retail park was later renamed "The Broad Centre", ^[12] owned by BBC Pension Trust. ^[13]

Former Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Sutton Junction		Midland Railway (Sutton Branch)		None (terminus)

References

1. Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 440
2. The Penny Emma at Sutton Town Station Nottinghamshire County Council via Inspire cultural services. Retrieved 15 February 2025
3. Ashfield Masterplan Report Ashfield District Council, 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2025
4. Kirkby - Sutton path set to be transformed! Ashfield District Council, 31 Oct 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2025
5. "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 881. 1881. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
6. "Derby and Derbyshire and Elsewhere" . Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. England. 13 January 1912. Retrieved 8 May 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
7. "Stationmaster for Sutton" . Nottingham Journal. England. 30 December 1937. Retrieved 8 May 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
8. Sutton Town Midland Railway Station, Nottinghamshire County Council via Inspire cultural services. Retrieved 19 February 2025
9. Development of Portland Retail Park, Station Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, 2001 picturethepast.org.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2025
10. Planning Application V/1979/0574 by Blackton Motors. Ashfield District Council, 28 June 1979. Retrieved 19 February 2025
11. Home Bargains open new store suton "...the retailer moves to its new premises from Portland Retail Park." News-Journal, 30 August 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2025
12. Pedestrian seriously injured after being hit by cyclist in Sutton-in-Ashfield Notts TV , 2 March 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2025
13. New McDonald's restaurant planned at Nottinghamshire retail park NottinghamshireLive , 15 December 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2025

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Huthwaite Online - Tracking Stationed Railways

External links

• Rail line from Sutton Junction to Sutton Town Station on navigable O.S. map circa 1900