Alfreton railway station

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Alfreton
National Rail
Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway, newly reopened station 1973 (geograph 5038555).jpg
Alfreton railway station as opened in 1973
LocationAlfreton, Borough of Amber Valley
England
Grid referenceSK422561
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeALF
ClassificationDfT category E
Key dates
1 May 1862Opened as Alfreton
7 November 1891Renamed Alfreton and South Normanton
2 January 1967Closed
7 May 1973Reopened as Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway
1995Renamed Alfreton
Passengers
2016/17Increase 0.292 million
2017/18Increase 0.295 million
2018/19Increase 0.314 million
2019/20Decrease 0.311 million
2020/21Decrease 61,690
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Alfreton railway station serves the town of Alfreton in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Erewash Valley Line 18+1⁄4 miles (29.4 km) north of Nottingham and 9+3⁄4 miles (15.7 km) south of Chesterfield.

Alfreton is a penalty fare station when travelling on East Midlands Railway services.

History[]

Alfreton railway station in 2008

Opened by the Midland Railway as Alfreton on 1 May 1862, the station was renamed Alfreton and South Normanton on 7 November 1891.[1][2] It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The British Railways Board closed the station to passengers on 2 January 1967, due to the Beeching Axe, and the buildings and platforms were subsequently demolished.

When the station reopened on 7 May 1973, it was given the name Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway,[1] as the nearby town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire did not have a passenger service of its own, making it at the time one of the largest towns in Britain without such a service. Following the reopening of the Robin Hood Line in 1995, Mansfield station re-opened,[3] so Alfreton station reverted to its original name.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by the Intercity Sector and Provincial, which became Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Stationmasters[]

  • William Palmer 1862 - 1864[4] (formerly station master at Long Eaton Junction)
  • Samuel Butler 1864 - 1873[5] (formerly station master at Hucknall)
  • S. Rayson 1873 - 1876[5]
  • William F. Foster 1876[5] - 1883[6] (formerly station master at Hucknall, afterwards station master at Beeston)
  • William Barwell 1883[6] - 1906[7] (formerly station master at Castle Donington)
  • John Henry Grundy 1906[7] - 1914 (formerly station master at Butterley)
  • William Tunn 1914 - 1926[8] (formerly station master at Pinxton, afterwards station master at Langley Mill)
  • Charles Hopkins 1926 - 1935[9] (formerly station master at Ashwell, afterwards station master at Hellifield)
  • Ernest George Jeffery 1935 - 1943 (formerly station master at Glenfield)

Facilities[]

The station is staffed through the day, with the ticket office open 06:45 - 18:00 Mondays - Saturdays and 10:30 - 18:00 Sundays. A ticket machine is provided in the main building for use outside these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Toilets are located on platform 1, whilst platform 2 (southbound) has a waiting shelter only. Train running information is provided by digital CIS screens, automatic announcements, timetable posters and a customer help point on platform 1. Step-free access is only available for platform 1, as the barrow crossing at the station has been closed and the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs.[10]

Services[]

There is generally an hourly East Midlands Railway Local service northbound to Liverpool Lime Street via Sheffield and southbound to Norwich via Nottingham.[11]

Northern Trains run an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds that stops at Alfreton. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change. From 2 April 2017, southbound services began to stop at the newly opened station at Ilkeston.[12][13]

Northern plan to begin, from late 2018, operating Northern Connect services between Bradford Interchange and Nottingham over this route - these will be extended from their current northern terminus at Leeds and be diverted to run north of Sheffield via Wakefield Westgate rather than their present route via Barnsley.[14]

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Nottingham
East Midlands Railway
Liverpool-Norwich
Chesterfield
Limited Service
Northern Trains
Nottingham-Leeds

Gallery[]

  • Up parcels in 1961. At that time a pair of goods lines ran outside the station on the right.

  • Up empties on the goods line in 1961.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 15
  2. ^ Quick 2009, p. 57.
  3. ^ Town's Railway Station comes one step closer. Mansfield Reports 1993/94, p.2 Mansfield District Council. Accessed 28 April 2021
  4. ^ "1859-1866". Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts: 187. 1914. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 415. 1871. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 564. 1881. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  7. ^ a b "1899-1908 Coaching; Piece 1027". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 472. 1899. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  8. ^ "New Stationmaster at Langley Mill". West Bridgford Advertiser. England. 16 October 1926. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Mr. C. Hopkins". Derby Daily Telegraph. England. 27 November 1935. Retrieved 3 January 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ Alfreton station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  11. ^ Table 49 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  12. ^ "Ilkeston Railway Station – Unofficial discussion, news, developments, information". www.ilkestonrailwaystation.co.uk.
  13. ^ Table 34 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  14. ^ "Northern Connect Map 2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.

Further reading[]

  • 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

External links[]

Coordinates: 53°06′00″N 1°22′12″W / 53.100°N 1.370°W / 53.100; -1.370

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