Rolleston railway station

Rolleston
Looking west towards the shelter, old station house, and level crossing
Location
Place	Rolleston
Local authority	Newark and Sherwood
Grid reference	SK737525
Operations
Station code	ROL
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	4,244
2011/12	4,294
2012/13	3,586
2013/14	4,162
2014/15	4,544
History
Key dates	Opened 1846
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Rolleston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Rolleston station is around half a mile from the small village of Rolleston, one of the Trent side villages close to Southwell in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is convenient for Southwell Racecourse, to which it is adjacent.

Rolleston is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, its neighbouring stations being Newark castle, around 4 miles east, and Fiskerton, around 3/4 mile west. The station owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) Train Operating Company (TOC) who provide services to the station.

The station was previously known as Rolleston Junction, as it used to be the junction for the railway line to Southwell and Mansfield, which in its latter years played host to the locally loved 'Southwell Paddy' service. This line closed to passengers in June 1959,^[1] although the service beyond Southwell ended three decades earlier. The name also avoided confusion with Rolleston-on-Dove railway station on the line between Burton upon Trent and Egginton Junction.

The station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern 'Help Points'. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost; there are no retail facilities at this station.

References

1. The 150th anniversary of the coming of the railways to Newark was marked in 1996 Newark Advertiser article; retrieved 2009-04-22

External links

• Train times and station information for Rolleston railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Fiskerton		East Midlands Trains Nottingham-Lincoln Line		Newark Castle
	Disused railways
Terminus		Midland Railway Rolleston Junction to Mansfield		Southwell Line and station closed

Coordinates: 53°03′55″N 0°53′59″W / 53.06528°N 0.89972°W