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Aslockton railway station

{{short description|Railway station in Nottinghamshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}

{{Infobox station

|name = Aslockton

|symbol_location = gb

|symbol = rail

|image = File:Unit 156406 at Aslockton railway station in 2008.jpg

|caption = A Skegness-bound train at Aslockton station

|borough = Aslockton, Rushcliffe

|country = England

|grid_name = Grid reference

|grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SK705401|25|SK705401}}

|manager = East Midlands Railway

|platforms = 2

|code = ALK

|original = Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway

|pregroup = Great Northern Railway

|postgroup = London and North Eastern Railway

|classification = DfT category F2

|opened = 15 July 1850

|mpassengers =

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{increase}} 33,438}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 3,736}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 15,914}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 23,472}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{decrease}} 23,194}}

|footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

}}

Aslockton railway station serves the English villages of Aslockton and Whatton-in-the-Vale in Nottinghamshire. It also draws passengers from other nearby villages. It is 10 miles (17 km) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham–Skegness Line.

History

Passenger services from Aslockton started on 15 July 1850,{{Cite news |author= |title=Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001100/18500712/034/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties |location=England |date=12 July 1850 |access-date=29 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened its extension from Nottingham to Grantham. This was taken over by the Great Northern Railway.{{Cite book |last=Kingscott |first=Geoffrey |title=Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire |date=15 October 2004 |publisher=Countryside Books |isbn=9781853068843}}{{Page needed|date=May 2023}} The station building designed by Thomas Chambers Hine was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857.

On 12 October 1868 a goods train that left Nottingham at 4.15 am split near Aslockton station when one of the coupling chains broke. The driver shunted on to the down line, and while it got back onto the up line, a goods train from Grantham ran into it. The driver of the Grantham train, Smalley Hutchinson, was killed and its fireman severely injured.{{Cite news |author= |title=Fatal Railway Collision on the Nottingham and Grantham Line |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/18681017/019/0004 |newspaper=Grantham Journal |location=England |date=17 October 1868 |access-date=29 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}

On 31 December 1904, George Skillington, aged 78, was killed on the line at Aslockton by a light engine.{{cite news |author= |title=Aslockton. Shocking accident on the Railway |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/19050107/022/0003 |newspaper=Grantham Journal |location=England |date=7 January 1905 |access-date=29 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}

The station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway under the Grouping of 1923.

On 23 July 1933 an excursion train from Skegness to Nottingham crashed through the level crossing gates at Aslockton.{{Cite news |author= |title=Local Happenings. Nottingham Train Crashes Through Gate |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19330724/036/0007 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=24 July 1933 |access-date=29 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} On 1 August 1937, a nine-year-old boy, Ernest Love of Sneinton, Nottingham, fell from a Nottingham to Mablethorpe excursion train at Aslockton and was killed.{{Cite news |author= |title=Inquest story of fall from train |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19370803/049/0007 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=3 August 1937 |access-date=29 June 2017 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}

The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel multiple-unit trains.{{Cite news |author= |title=Train Service Alterations from Monday |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/19630104/136/0007 |newspaper=Grantham Journal |location=England |date=4 January 1963 |access-date=18 December 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}

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 Railway.

=Stationmasters=

{{div col}}

  • David Bennett Fenn c. 1851
  • Mr. Buffam c. 1857
  • Edwin Frost c. 1861
  • Alfred Andrews c. 1868
  • Robert A. Theobald c. 1871
  • Henry Chapman c. 1880
  • John George Eyre c. 1881
  • Richard H. Simpson c. 1891
  • Albert Edward Hyde 1901 – c. 1905
  • William Poole 1931–1933{{Cite news |author= |title=42 years on the L.N.E.R. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19370106/041/0008 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=6 January 1937 |access-date=16 December 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} (formerly stationmaster at Cotham)
  • Arthur Gilbert 1933 – c. 1950 (formerly stationmaster at Elton and Orston)
  • George Kingston from 1957{{Cite news |author= |title=To be The Stationmaster at Aslockton |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/19570621/067/0004 |newspaper=Grantham Journal |location=England |date=21 June 1957 |access-date=16 December 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}} (formerly stationmaster at Scalford)

{{div col end}}

Services

There are trains every hour or two hours to Nottingham and to Boston and Skegness via Grantham. There are less frequent trains to destinations such as Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street. On Sundays, there are normally three services – one to Liverpool Lime Street, one to Skegness and one to Norwich.

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{{s-rail|title=National Rail}}

{{s-rail-national|previous=Bingham|next=Elton and Orston|toc=East Midlands Railway|route=Nottingham-Grantham Line}}

{{Historical Rail Insert}}

{{Rail line |previous=Bottesford
Line and station open |next=Bottesford
Line and station open |route=Great Northern Railway
Nottingham to Grantham |col={{GNR colour}} }}

{{Rail line |previous=Bingham
Line and station open |next=Elton
Line and station open |route=Great Northern Railway
Nottingham to Newark |col={{GNR colour}} }}

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See also

References

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  • {{Butt-Stations}}
  • {{Jowett-Nationalised}}
  • {{Jowett-Atlas}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701144618/http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#473,339,1 Station on navigable O.S. map]

External links

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  • [https://archive.today/20121224185200/http://www.cranmerlhg.org.uk/gallery/aslockton/pages/Aslockton%20Station%20Master%20House%201964.htm Aslockton Station Master's House]
  • [http://www.transportimages.com/gallery/v/railways/ukprevious/British-Rail/British-Rail-Regional-Railways/Aslockton+dmu+1970s.jpg.html Train at Aslockton Station]{{dead link |date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
  • [http://www.cranmerlhg.org.uk/publications/Publications/aslocktonimages02.pdf PDF with images of signal box and station]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

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Category:Railway stations in Nottinghamshire

Category:DfT Category F2 stations

Category:Former Great Northern Railway stations

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1850

Category:Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway

Category:Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire

Category:Thomas Chambers Hine railway stations

Category:1850 establishments in England