Kegworth railway station

{{short description|Former railway station in Nottinghamshire, England}}

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{{Infobox station

| name = Kegworth

| status = Disused

| image = 60007 Kegworth station.jpg

| caption = Ex-LNER Class A4 No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, passing through the remains of Kegworth station on 28 February 2009

| borough = Kingston on Soar, Borough of Rushcliffe

| country = England

| platforms = 2

| original = Midland Counties Railway

| pregroup = Midland Railway

| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway

| years = 5 May 1840

| events = Station opened

| years1 = 4 March 1968

| events1 = ClosedButt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens

}}

Kegworth railway station located in Nottinghamshire was a station serving the villages of Kegworth, Leicestershire, Sutton Bonington, and Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire.

History

It was opened in 1840 for the Midland Counties Railway, which shortly joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway.

This line is now part of the Midland Main Line between Loughborough and East Midlands Parkway railway station.

It was built in the typical MCR fashion, with the main building positioned at a higher level and steps leading down onto the platform. It closed in 1968 and only the station house and the goods shed remain. Until 1971 there was a standard gauge mineral railway between the main line and New Kingston gypsum mine.Higginson, M, (1989) The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust.

There has been local pressure to open it. However a new station, East Midlands Parkway has now been built at Ratcliffe-on-Soar. Currently only taxis serve to connect it to the nearby East Midlands Airport, forcing the majority of people to use the Skylink (bus service) from Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester or Derby, but with improvements to the Erewash Valley Line has the potential to be a hub for local services from Nottingham and Derby to connect with a high speed service from London to Sheffield and the North.

Station masters

John Sykes ca. 1846 - 1853{{cite news |author= |title=Kegworth |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000176/18530217/012/0005 |newspaper=Nottinghamshire Guardian |location=England |date=17 February 1853 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (emigrated to Australia)
John Beckwith 1853{{cite news |author= |title=Kegworth Railway Station |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000298/18530326/020/0003 |newspaper=Leicestershire Mercury |location=England |date=17 February 1853 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - ???? (formerly of the Leicestershire County Police Force)
Joseph Kilby 1860 - 1863
John Antill 1863 - 1864
S. Hudson 1864 - ????
Robert Cross 1868 - 1895{{cite news |author= |title=Interesting Ceremony at Kegworth |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18950610/054/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=10 June 1895 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
H.L. Bailey 1895 - 1900{{cite news |author= |title=New Midland Station Master at Bath |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000221/19000920/021/0003 |newspaper=Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette |location=England |date=20 September 1900 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (afterwards station master at Bath)
Charles Ravenhall 1900{{cite news |author= |title=Kegworth Station |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19000808/036/0003 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=8 August 1900 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - 1905 (formerly station master at Borrowash, afterwards station master at Oakham)
John Lewis Shannon 1905 - 1908{{cite news |author= |title=News Brevities |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002037/19080911/039/0002 |newspaper=Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press |location=England |date=11 September 1908 |access-date=8 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (formerly station master at Rearsby, afterwards assistant station master at Derby)
William E. Coates 1908{{cite news |author= |title=District Items |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000276/19080905/163/0008 |newspaper=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |location=England |date=5 September 1908 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - 1921 (formerly station master at Millers Dale, afterwards station master at Loughborough)
William Horace Yates 1921 - ????
W.E. Turner 1931{{cite news |author= |title=Sharnbrook |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000749/19311120/260/0013 |newspaper=Bedfordshire Times and Independent |location=England |date=20 November 1931 |access-date=9 March 2020 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - ???? (formerly station master at Sharnbrook)
E.G. Dilley 1943 - 1953 (formerly station master at Oakley, afterwards station master at Oakham)
H.R. Leddra ca. 1959
C.D. Gower ca. 1965

{{Rail line one to two |previous=Hathern
Line open, station closed |next1=Long Eaton
Line and station open |route1=Midland Railway
Midland Main Line |next2=Trent
Line open, station closed |route2=Midland Railway
Midland Main Line |col={{MR colour}} }}

References

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968

Category:Former Midland Railway stations

Category:Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire

Category:Beeching closures in England