Mansfield Town is a stop on the Robin Hood Line in Nottinghamshire between Sutton Parkway and Mansfield Woodhouse.
East Midlands Railway 170 419 at Mansfield
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Robin Hood Line)
Station code:
MFT
Opened:
1849 (Closed 1964)
Re-opened:
1995
Platforms:
2
The station was opened in 1849 by the Midland Railway after the purchase of the Mansfield & Pinxton Railway. The current station buildings were built in 1872 after a rebuilding of the station in the early 1870s. The station was renamed Mansfield Town in 1952 [1] to differentiate it from the town's other two stations in the nationalised era. Station signage still carries this name though it is also known as just Mansfield.
Passenger services to Mansfield ceased in 1964 and much of the station including the overall roof were demolished though the station building survived and gained listed status in 1978, it later became a cafe and then a supermarket. The Robin Hood Line was re-opened for passenger services between Nottingham and Workshop in 1995 (though the route was not fully re-opened to Worksop until 1998).
The station is adjacent to Mansfield bus station and is managed and served by East Midlands Railway. There are up to two trains an hour in each direction.
Station building
Down the platform, notice the arrow - a feature of stations on the Robin Hood Line
Station entrance
View down the platform
170 419 departs
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Ambergate to Mansfield (Middleton Press, 2020) Map. XVII
