Attenborough (ATB)

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Attenborough is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Nottinghamshire between Long Eaton and Beeston.

Two EMT Class 158s at the station

The first station to be opened was Attenborough Gate by the Midland Counties Railway on it's line between Nottingham and Derby in 1856. This station only lasted a couple of years however and was replaced in 1864 by a station called Attenborough on the current site.

Information
Type:	National Rail (Midland Main Line)
Station code:	ATB
Opened:	1856
Platforms:	2

The station was renamed Chilwell in 1937 but the LMS (who owned the station by then) reverted back to the original name after a couple of months following a petition by local residents.

Attenborough is an unstaffed station with a level crossing at the Derby end of the two platforms. Little of the original station now remains following rebuilding of the station in recent decades, nowadays the station has the usual collection of bus shelters and signage. Interchange between the platforms is via the level crossing or a footbridge. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Two EMT Class 153s pass each other at Attenborough

View from the road crossing

EMT 153 382 at Attenborough, the footbridge can be seen in the background

Barriers down

Nottingham bound EMT Class 158 arrives

Southchurch Drive North NET

Southchurch Drive North is a stop on the Nottingham Express Transit's Line 2 between Ruddington Lane and Rivergreen.

A Nottingham bound tram arrives

Information
Type:	Nottingham Express Transit Line 2
Opened:	2015
Platforms:	2

The tram stop was opened in 2015 as part of phase 2 of the Nottingham Express Transit. The trams run on street tracks on Southchurch Drive. the stop being located near the junction with Farnborough Road. The two tram platforms are either side of the tracks facing each other.

The stop is served by up to eight trams in each direction between Clifton South and Pheonix Park.

Clifton bound 211 arrives at the stop

The stop has the standard NET tram stop architecture

Heading off

Mansfield Town (MFT)

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

Ruddington Lane NET

Ruddington Lane is a stop on Line 2 of the Nottingham Express Transit in Wilford. It is located between Compton Acres and Southchurch Drive North.

Tram 216 arrives at Ruddington Lane

Information
Type:	Nottingham Express Transit
Opened:	2015
Platforms:	2

The stop was opened in 2015 as part of the Line 2 extension of the NET. 

The stop (and line) is built on the former route of the Great Central Railway between Nottingham and Sheffield.

Departing for Clifton South

Looking back towards Nottingham

Lace Market NET

Lace Market is a stop on the Nottingham Express Transit in the city centre between Old Square and Nottingham Station.

Lace Market

Information
Type:	Nottingham Express Transit
Opened:	2004
Platforms:	2

The tram stop is one of the original stops on the NET and opened in 2004. It derives it's name from being situated in Nottingham's historic Lace Market quarter. The tram stop shares road space with motor vehicles at this location. After the opening of Phase 2 of NET, Lace Market is one of the central stops which serves both Lines 1 and 2.

Arriving at the stop

Approaching the stop

Fiskerton (FSK)

Fiskerton is a stop on the Nottingham-Lincoln Line in Nottinghamshire between Bleasby and Rolleston. 

EMR 156 917 departs

Information
Type:	National Rail (Nottingham-Lincoln Line)
Station code:	FSK
Opened:	1846
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1846. The station, close to the river Trent, had a goods loop which survived until 1964 [1]. The original station building survives as a private residence. Platform facilities of this unstaffed station are the usual bus shelters and signs.

Next to the station is a level crossing which was operated by Fiskerton signalbox but this was decommissioned in 2016. It may be given to a preserved railway. Access between the platforms is via the road and crossing. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Platform view, the former station building behind

Level crossing

Signalbox

View down the platform

EMR 158 768 prepares to depart

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham to Lincoln (Middleton Press, 2013) Map. IX

Newark Castle (NCT)

Newark Castle is a stop on the Nottingham-Lincoln Line in Nottinghamshire between Rolleston and Collingham. 

EMR 156 411 arrives at Newark Castle

Information
Type:	National Rail (Nottingham-Lincoln Line)
Station code:	NCT
Opened:	1846
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1846, the station is so named due to it's proximity to the castle! The station building was built in the Italianate style and is still in railway use though has lost it's canopy [1]. The station retains a staffed ticket office, the building also hosting a cafe.

Access between the platforms is via the level crossing and road at the Nottingham end of the platforms. The station is managed and served by East Midlands Railway with usually two trains per hour in each direction, some services terminating / originating at Newark Castle.

Newark Castle signal box

Level crossing

Station building

View down the platform

Preparing to depart

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham to Lincoln (Middleton Press, 2013) Fig. 50

Bulwell NET

Bulwell is a tram stop on the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) on Line 1 between Bulwell Forest and Highbury Vale. It is adjacent to Bulwell railway station. 

Tram 221 at Bulwell

Information
Type:	Nottingham Express Transit
Opened:	2004
Platforms:	2

Bulwell was opened in 2004 as one of the original stops on the NET, occupying space once taken up by Bulwell railway station's second platform. Bulwell has an island platform. A footbridge allows access across the tram and railway lines to the railway station and beyond. Tram line and railway run side by side at this location. 

The line is single track north of the stop as far as Highbury Vale stop. The line is double track south of the stop.

236 departs south for Nottingham centre

A tram at Bulwell, the railway station is on the left

Tram stop view

The railway station can be accessed via this footbridge

Another arrival

Nottingham (NOT)

Nottingham is a major station on the Midlands Main Line and also the terminus of the Derwent Valley and Robin Hood Lines. It is the only survivor of what were once a number of stations in the city.

EMR 158 777 stands at the station

Information
Type:	National Rail (Midlands Main Line and others)
Station code:	NOT
Opened:	1848
Platforms:	7 (+2 NET tram)

Nottingham was opened by the Midlands Railway in 1848, though was not the city's first station (this being the now-closed Carrington Street station in 1839). Nottingham was rebuilt in 1904 to compete with the new station, Nottingham Victoria, which was built by the Great Central Railway. Much of the surviving station dates from that rebuild.

Nottingham was renamed Nottingham City [1] and then Nottingham Midland in the 1950s but the name was changed back to Nottingham when the other stations in the city were closed.

The station was redeveloped in the 2010s for £60 million. A new multi-storey carpark was built, as was a new passenger concourse and the station's original Grade II listed architecture restored. The station was also remodelled to add a seventh platform. In recent years the station has also become the hub of the expanding Nottingham NET tram network with a direct link to the tram stop added in 2015 [2].

XC 170 623 waits to depart

Footbridge linking the platforms

East Midland Railway and Cross Country are two of the companies which serve Nottingham

East Midland Trains HST stands at Nottingham

Cross Country Turbostar 170 108 at Nottingham

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham to Mansfield (Middleton Press, 2021) Fig. 1

[2] Ibid. Fig. 16

Burton Joyce (BUJ)

Burton Joyce is a stop on the Nottingham-Lincoln Line in Nottinghamshire between Carlton and Lowdham. 

EMR 156 470 arrives at the station

Information
Type:	National Rail (Nottingham-Lincoln Line)
Station code:	BUJ
Opened:	1846
Platforms:	2

The station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1846. The station was built further away from the village centre than originally intended due to local objections. The station had a single siding and signalbox though both have now gone [1].

The platforms were shortened in the 1960s though the station remained open. The station's main building and wooden shelters have been replaced by the usual bus shelters. Access between the platforms is via the level crossing at the Lincoln end of the platforms. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway.

156 498 with a Newark Castle bound service

View down the platform

Level crossing

Looking towards the level crossing

Help point and bus shelter

[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Nottingham to Lincoln (Middleton Press, 2013) Map. V