Mansfield railway station

For the closed station in Australia, see Mansfield railway station, Victoria.

Mansfield
The station building from platform 2
Location
Place	Mansfield
Local authority	Mansfield
Grid reference	SK536608
Operations
Station code	MFT
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.375 million
2005/06	0.379 million
2006/07	0.361 million
2007/08	0.344 million
2008/09	0.349 million
2009/10	0.394 million
2010/11	0.366 million
2011/12	0.367 million
2012/13	0.349 million
2013/14	0.314 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1872 Closed 1964 Re-opened 1995 (1872 Closed 1964 Re-opened 1995)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mansfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Mansfield railway station serves the large town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. Alternatively it is named Mansfield Town, to distinguish itself from Mansfield Woodhouse and the GCR's former Mansfield Central. The station is 17 miles (27 km) north of Nottingham on the Robin Hood Line and is managed by East Midlands Trains.

The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.

Before the station was re-opened in 1995, the town was the largest in the United Kingdom without one, all the more remarkable when it is considered that Mansfield pioneered the railway in the East Midlands. The then nearest railway station, Alfreton, was known as "Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway".

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service from Mansfield to Nottingham (southbound) and Mansfield Woodhouse (northbound) with an hourly service onwards to Worksop. There is an hourly service during the evenings between Nottingham and Worksop. There is also one daily service Mondays to Fridays from Mansfield Woodhouse directly to Norwich, however there is no corresponding service in the opposite direction.

On Sundays an irregular service (9 trains each way) runs between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse only.

History

The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built in 1819. It was bought by the Midland Railway which used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849.

The station building acquired listed building status, but Mansfield remained isolated from the railway system until 1995, when the Robin Hood Line was reopened to Nottingham.

Future

Former operator Central Trains has been replaced by a new company called East Midlands Trains from November 2007 which operates most services in the East Midlands area. The franchise is operated by the Stagecoach group. Although passenger usage figures remain 'healthy,' Mansfield is one of the few stations in the United Kingdom not to have experienced a large growth in usage since 2004 (see figures right).

External links

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

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Sutton Parkway		East Midlands Trains Robin Hood Line		Mansfield Woodhouse
	Disused railways
Blidworth and Rainworth Line and station closed		Midland Railway Rolleston Junction to Mansfield		Terminus