Plumtree railway station
{{short description|Former railway station in Nottinghamshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Plumtree
| status = Disused
| image = 250px
| caption = Main station building in 2008.
| borough = Plumtree, Rushcliffe
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|52.885260|-1.083498|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| platforms = 2{{cite web |url=http://www.old-dalby.com/Plumtree.htm |title=Old Dalby Test Track - Plumtree station |access-date=11 April 2010}}
| original = Midland Railway
| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
| years = 2 February 1880{{Butt-Stations}} p. 186.
| events = Station opens as Plumtree & Keyworth
| years1 = 1 May 1893
| events1 = Renamed
| years2 = 28 February 1949
| events2 = Closes to passengers
| years3 = 1 November 1965Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Station, Avon Anglia {{ISBN|0-905466-19-5}}
| events3 = Closes to goods
}}
Plumtree railway station served the village of Plumtree in Nottinghamshire, England on the Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway between London and Nottingham, avoiding Leicester. The station is now a pub and grill an the line still is now used as the Old Dalby Test Track. Although is closed towards Nottingham way.
History
The station was opened for goods (1 November 1879) {{Cite book | last=Aldworth | first=Colin | title=The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012 | year=2012 }} & passengers (2 February 1880) by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.{{cite news |author= |title=Notes by the Way. |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000228/18841101/022/0005 |newspaper=Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald |location=British Newspaper Archive |date=1 November 1884 |access-date=12 July 2016 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
It was on its cut-off line from {{stnlnk|Melton Mowbray}} to {{stnlnk|Nottingham}}, which had opened the previous year to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham. It also improved access to and from the iron-ore fields in Leicestershire and Rutland. Local traffic was minimal and Plumtree closed to passengers as early as 1949.{{Cite book | last=Shannon | first=Paul | title=Nottinghamshire (British Railways Past and Present) | year=2007 | publisher=Past & Present Publishing | location=Kettering, Northants | isbn=978-1-85895-253-6 |page=23}}
According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were handled by this station in 1956: G, P†, F, L, H, C and there was a 1-ton 10 cwt crane.Official Handbook of Stations,British Transport Commission, 1956.
In 1910, nine trains each way stopped at Plumtree Station. The earliest train to Nottingham was 7.02, and to Melton Mowbray 6.55. A passenger catching this latter service could expect to be in London St Pancras by 10.55 a.m. Sunday services were virtually non-existent, with only the morning milk train (7.49) to Nottingham (and no way of getting back that day!)
=Stationmasters=
- George Thomas Bursnell 1879 - 1883
- James C. Chidgey 1883 - 1886 (afterwards station master at Spondon){{cite news |author= |title=Plumtree | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000176/18870218/016/0005 |newspaper=Nottinghamshire Guardian |location=England |date=18 February 1887 |access-date=6 February 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
- William George Nutall 1886 - 1888 (afterwards station master at Kirkby Stephen)
- John Walters 1888 - 1890 (formerly station master at Hykeham)
- Edwin Charles Harvey 1890 - 1919
- Walter Frank Gardner 1921 - 1932
- Albert Henry Hemmings 1937{{cite news |author= |title=Plumtree Stationmaster | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001898/19360611/086/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Journal |location=England |date=11 June 1936 |access-date=6 February 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - 1939 (formerly station master at Dudbridge)
- Herbert F. Wilson 1943 - 1951 (formerly station master at East Langton)
- Arthur Nicholson 1952 - 1954
- John Ingamells 1954 - 1959
- Fred Saunders 1960 - 1965
{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{Rail line|next={{rws|Widmerpool}}|previous={{rws|Edwalton}}|route=Midland Railway
Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway|col=000000}}
{{end}}
Present day
Following the closure of the line as a through-route in 1968, the track between Melton Mowbray and {{rws|Nottingham}} was reused as far as Edwalton and became the Old Dalby Test Track. This was used initially for the Advanced Passenger Train project and, more recently, Class 390 Pendolino units.Shannon, P., p. 23. It was also used for testing London Underground trains 'S Stock' units.
The main station buildings have survived and have been converted into 'Perkins Restaurant'.{{cite web |url=http://www.perkins-family.co.uk/?i=68768 |title=Perkins Restaurant |access-date=30 January 2013}} A conservatory extension has been built on the platform and the former goods shed has been restored as a function room.{{cite web |url=http://www.perkins-family.co.uk/?i=68769 |title=The Carriage Hall |access-date=11 April 2010}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#461,331,1 Plumtree station on navigable 1946 O.S. map]
- [http://www.old-dalby.com/Plumtree-1.htm Plumtree station scenes down the years]
{{Closed stations Nottinghamshire}}
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Category:Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire
Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880
Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1949