Annesley railway station

Annesley railway station was a station in Annesley, Nottinghamshire. It was opened in 1874, to serve the mining village of Annesley which had grown following the opening of Annesley colliery in 1865. It was closed in 1953 as part of the post-war cutback, and the line closed to passengers in 1964. The station did not reopen as part of the Robin Hood Line project in the 1990s.

Annesley
General information
Location	Annesley, Ashfield England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 July 1874	Station opens
6 April 1953	Station closes

History

Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, closing five years later under the control of the British Railways Board.

Stationmasters

• R. Grice 1874 - 1878^[1]
• Henry Harding 1878^[1] - 1888^[2]
• Henry Robinson 1889^[2] - 1919^[3]
• W.C. Stephenson 1935^[4] - 1942^[5] (formerly station master at Asfordby, afterwards station master at Codnor Park and Ironville)
• F.J. Toghill 1942
• B.V.Wall 1953 (Subsequently Swanwick Junction Station, then 1959 Station Master, Salima, Nyasaland (now Malawi) and then 1964 Victorian Railways, Melbourne, Australia)

The site today

Trains operating on the Robin Hood Line still pass the site. Although the line re-opened in stages during the 1990s Annesley station did not reopen due to its proximity to Newstead.^[6][7]

Former Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Newstead		Midland Railway		Kirkby-in-Ashfield (East)
Newstead		Mansfield Railway		Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central

References

1. "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 641. 1871. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
2. "1881-1898 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 540. 1881. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
3. "Annesley News". Beeston Gazette and Echo. England. 6 September 1919. Retrieved 8 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
4. "Asfordby Stationmastership Change". Grantham Journal. England. 5 October 1935. Retrieved 8 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Codnor Park". Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press. England. 20 November 1942. Retrieved 8 May 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. Subterranea Britannica: SB-Sites: Annesley Station
7. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.16

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

53°4′38.5″N 1°13′39.3″W / 53.077361°N 1.227583°W / 53.077361; -1.227583