Mansfield Woodhouse railway station

Mansfield Woodhouse
Location	Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield England
Grid reference	SK534632
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	MSW
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1995
Passengers
2016/17	179,602
2017/18	185,826
2018/19	189,524
2019/20	191,932
2020/21	30,514
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Mansfield Woodhouse railway station serves the settlement of Mansfield Woodhouse, which adjoins the town of Mansfield, both located in Nottinghamshire, England.

The station is on the Robin Hood Line between Nottingham and Worksop. It was originally closed in 1964 but was reopened in 1995.

History[]

The original station was opened for goods traffic in April 1875 and for passenger traffic on 1 June 1875^[1] when the Midland Railway built a 15 miles (24 km) branch line from Mansfield to Worksop. Stations were erected at Mansfield Woodhouse, Shirebrook, Langwith, Cresswell and Whitwell. They were all built of stone except for the one at Mansfield Woodhouse, which was built entirely in wood.

Stationmasters[]

• Joseph Harrison 1875 – 1899^[2]
• Frederick Mason 1899 – 1923^[3]

Branch line[]

A branch line veered west approximately half a mile north of the station. This single track line, known as "The Pleasley extension", ran through Pleasley Vale to Pleasley West station, and then it split into two.

One line turned sharply north and became the Doe Lea Branch, which wound a very circuitous route through Rowthorne, Glapwell, Bolsover, Barrow Hill and Whittington to Chesterfield. It closed to normal passenger traffic in 1930 and the section between Pleasley and Glapwell was lifted. Coal continued to go out northwards from Glapwell Colliery until it closed in 1974.

The other line continued south west through Teversal and Tibshelf to Westhouses. That line also lost its sparse passenger service in 1930, but remarkably, excursions and summer specials called at Pleasley West and Mansfield Woodhouse up to 1963. The line between Pleasley West and the junction north of Mansfield Woodhouse was closed and lifted in 1964 after which coal from the collieries on the line all went southwards to Westhouses. One by one these collieries closed and all tracks through Pleasley West became redundant and were lifted.

Parts of the trackbed and those of neighbouring lines have been turned into public footpaths and bridleways.^[4][5]

Services[]

The station sees two services, an hourly Nottingham-Worksop (and return) and hourly working from Nottingham that terminates in the eastern side bay platform, formerly used by all trains prior to the full line reopening in 1998, before returning. During the evening, the Nottingham-Mansfield Woodhouse service does not run.^[6]

An hourly Sunday service was introduced in December 2008 with the first and last service being extended to/from Skegness the following summer. Since the May 2011 timetable change, the service frequency has been reduced to two-hourly (eight departures in all) and trains only run to and from Nottingham, with no service to Worksop.

East Midlands Railway also operate one daily service on Mondays to Fridays to Norwich via Peterborough, but there is no corresponding return train from Norwich.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Mansfield		East Midlands Railway Robin Hood Line		Shirebrook
				Terminus
	Disused railways
Mansfield Line and station open		Midland Railway Pleasley Extension		Pleasley West Line and station closed

References[]

External links[]

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

Coordinates: 53°09′47″N 01°12′05″W / 53.16306°N 1.20139°W / 53.16306; -1.20139