Aslockton railway station
Aslockton  | |
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A Skegness-bound train at Aslockton station | |
| Location | |
| Place | Aslockton |
| Local authority | Rushcliffe |
| Grid reference | SK705401 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ALK |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 14,644 |
| 2011/12 |
15,912 |
| 2012/13 |
15,704 |
| 2013/14 |
21,100 |
| 2014/15 |
22,226 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1857 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aslockton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Aslockton railway station serves the villages of Aslockton and Whatton in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 10¾ miles (17 km) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham-Skegness Line.
History
It is located on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway in 1850 and taken over by the Great Northern Railway.[1]
The station itself was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857. The station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.
It became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.
The station is now managed by East Midlands Trains.
Current services
There are trains every hour or two to Nottingham, and trains every hour or two to Boston and Skegness via Grantham. There are less frequent trains to destinations such as Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Midlands Trains |
Former services
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bingham | Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham Nottingham to Newark |
Elton | ||
References
- ↑ Kingscott, G., (2004) Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books
- Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
- Station on navigable O.S. map
External links
- Train times and station information for Aslockton railway station from National Rail
- Aslockton Station Master's House
- Train at Aslockton Station
- PDF with images of signal box and station
Coordinates: 52°57′06″N 0°53′55″W / 52.95167°N 0.89861°W