The station was opened by the LD&ECR in 1896 and closed to local passenger traffic in 1955, though Summer holiday excursions to and from the East Coast continued to call until September 1964.[2][3]
The station,[4][5] goods shed[6] and signalbox[7] were built to standard LD&ECR patterns. Large water tanks were erected at both ends of the site.[8][9][10][11]
Former Services
There never was a Sunday service at Ollerton.
Two services called at Ollerton in 1922:
Three trains per day plied between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln. All these trains called at all stations.[12] The truncated remains of this service ended in September 1955.[8]
Three trains per day terminated at Ollerton from Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central then went back again half an hour or so later.[13] This service was later cut back to Edwinstowe.[14] A fourth train ran to Nottingham Victoria Monday to Friday, but on Saturdays it started from Lincoln and ran through to Leicester Central.[15] This service did not survive the Second World War.
Summer Saturday holiday trains survived until 1964.[16][17]
Royal Trains
As a marketing device the LD&ECR called itself "The Dukeries Route" because the line passed through an area of great landed estates. This led to visits to the area by Queen Victoria's son Edward, first as Prince of Wales and later as King Edward VII, usually in connection with a race meeting such as the St Leger. The Royal Train used Ollerton station[18] from which the Royal Party went to a ducal residence by road.[19][20]
Coal
A branch was built to serve Ollerton Colliery which opened in 1926.[21] This branch has now been severed from the "Main Line".[22] In the mid-twentieth century, the LMS and LNER jointly proposed a coal line to be called the Mid-Notts Joint Railway from Bestwood Park Junction, near Nottingham to Checker House Junction on the former GCR line near Retford. Only the section between Ollerton and Farnsfield was built.[23] The southern section to Bestwood Park was completed in the 1950s to serve the new Calverton Colliery.[24]
Further eastwards the line climbed at around 1-in-150 towards Boughton as it crossed a ridge before the valley of the River Trent.[25]
Modern Times
The line through Ollerton Station was reopened to non-passenger traffic in August 2009 as the High Marnham Test Track. The line is used by Network Rail to test new engineering trains and on-track plant.
The new test line runs from Thoresby Colliery Junction to the site of the partially demolished High Marnham Power Station, and passes former station sites of Ollerton, Boughton, Tuxford Central and Dukeries Junction, all these stations were closed by 1955.[26]
Remarkably, the platforms remained in place in Spring 2018, 54 years after closure.[27]
The Future
There is some hope of reopening the line as a branch off the Robin Hood Line and reopening Warsop, Edwinstowe and Ollerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham.[28][29]
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External links
Ollerton railway station on navigable 1947 O.S. Mapnpe Maps
Ollerton signalbox pictures Signalboxes
High Marnham Test Track photos Signalboxes
Ollerton and Area
2016 Ollerton re-opening meeting Notts TV
January 26, 2023
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Ollerton railway station is a former railway station in Ollerton Nottinghamshire England OllertonGeneral informationLocationOllerton Newark and SherwoodEnglandCoordinates53 11 39 N 1 01 45 W 53 1943 N 1 0291 W 53 1943 1 0291 Coordinates 53 11 39 N 1 01 45 W 53 1943 N 1 0291 W 53 1943 1 0291Grid referenceSK 649 667Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyLD amp ECRPre groupingGreat Central RailwayPost groupingLNERBritish RailwaysKey dates15 December 1896Opened19 September 1955scheduled services ended6 September 1964excursions end station closed6 July 1991reopened8 July 1991Closed 1 vte Lancashire Derbyshire amp East Coast RailwayLegendChesterfield Market Place Boythorpe Viaduct overMR Brampton Branchand Boythorpe Railway Horns Bridge overMidland Main LineGCR Chesterfield LoopRiver RotherDuckmanton TunnelGreat Central Main LineArkwright TownArkwright Town Jct 1907 River Doe LeaDoe Lea Viaduct overMR Doe Lea BranchBolsover SouthBolsover TunnelScarcliffeSummitMML to St PancrasSheffield MidlandAttercliffe Road MR Rotherham MasboroughWest Tinsley SDR Catcliffe SDR Rotherham MasboroughTreeton MR Woodhouse Mill MR Beighton GCR Beighton JunctionKillamarsh West MR Beighton GCR Upperthorpe and KillamarshSpinkhillSpinkhill TunnelClowne SouthSummitMarkland Grips ViaductCreswell and WelbeckShirebrook North Originally Langwith Junction Langwith Junction shedShirebrook SouthGNRto Nottingham Victoria 1901 Shirebrook WestMR now Robin Hood Line Nottingham Midland to WorksopWarsopClipstone Colliery SidingsMansfield Railwayto Nottingham Victoria from 1917 EdwinstoweOllertonBoughtonTuxford CentralTuxford WorksTuxford shedDukeries JunctionGNR now ECML Kings Cross to RetfordFledboroughFledborough Viaductover River TrentClifton on TrentDoddington and HarbySkellingthorpeGN amp GEJRto SaxilbyPyewipe JunctionLincolnto PeterboroughLD amp ECR and Sheffield District Railway 1950 Excursion Advert Contents 1 History 2 Former Services 3 Royal Trains 4 Coal 5 Modern Times 6 The Future 7 References 7 1 Sources 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory EditThe station was opened by the LD amp ECR in 1896 and closed to local passenger traffic in 1955 though Summer holiday excursions to and from the East Coast continued to call until September 1964 2 3 The station 4 5 goods shed 6 and signalbox 7 were built to standard LD amp ECR patterns Large water tanks were erected at both ends of the site 8 9 10 11 Former Services EditThere never was a Sunday service at Ollerton Two services called at Ollerton in 1922 Three trains per day plied between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln All these trains called at all stations 12 The truncated remains of this service ended in September 1955 8 Three trains per day terminated at Ollerton from Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central then went back again half an hour or so later 13 This service was later cut back to Edwinstowe 14 A fourth train ran to Nottingham Victoria Monday to Friday but on Saturdays it started from Lincoln and ran through to Leicester Central 15 This service did not survive the Second World War Summer Saturday holiday trains survived until 1964 16 17 Royal Trains EditAs a marketing device the LD amp ECR called itself The Dukeries Route because the line passed through an area of great landed estates This led to visits to the area by Queen Victoria s son Edward first as Prince of Wales and later as King Edward VII usually in connection with a race meeting such as the St Leger The Royal Train used Ollerton station 18 from which the Royal Party went to a ducal residence by road 19 20 Coal EditA branch was built to serve Ollerton Colliery which opened in 1926 21 This branch has now been severed from the Main Line 22 In the mid twentieth century the LMS and LNER jointly proposed a coal line to be called the Mid Notts Joint Railway from Bestwood Park Junction near Nottingham to Checker House Junction on the former GCR line near Retford Only the section between Ollerton and Farnsfield was built 23 The southern section to Bestwood Park was completed in the 1950s to serve the new Calverton Colliery 24 Further eastwards the line climbed at around 1 in 150 towards Boughton as it crossed a ridge before the valley of the River Trent 25 Modern Times EditThe line through Ollerton Station was reopened to non passenger traffic in August 2009 as the High Marnham Test Track The line is used by Network Rail to test new engineering trains and on track plant The new test line runs from Thoresby Colliery Junction to the site of the partially demolished High Marnham Power Station and passes former station sites of Ollerton Boughton Tuxford Central and Dukeries Junction all these stations were closed by 1955 26 Remarkably the platforms remained in place in Spring 2018 54 years after closure 27 The Future EditThere is some hope of reopening the line as a branch off the Robin Hood Line and reopening Warsop Edwinstowe and Ollerton stations providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham 28 29 Former Services Preceding station Disused railways Following stationEdwinstoweLine and station closed Great Central RailwayLancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway BoughtonLine and station closedReferences Edit Butt 1995 p 178 Walker 1991 Inside front cover Waller 2004 p 38 Kaye 1988 p 72 Dow 1965 p 166 Collinson 2010a p 21 Ollerton station via PictureThePast a b Anderson amp Cupit 2000 p 53 Garratt amp Priestley 1996 p 7 Anderson 2013 p 340 Stephen 2018 p 52 Bradshaw 1985 p 718 Bradshaw 1985 p 701 Cupit 1956 p 61 Bradshaw 1985 p 696 1964 Working Timetable Up via flickr 1964 Working Timetable Down via flickr Gilks 2002 p 205 Cupit amp Taylor 1984 pp 36 8 Booth 2013 p 33 DVD2 2005 film 49 55 mins from start Collinson 2010b p 33 Booth 2013 p 38 Cupit amp Taylor 1984 p 19 NoAuthor 2011 p 16 Preparing for the Future Network Rail Opens Vehicle Development Centre Press Releases Press release Network Rail 10 July 2009 Retrieved 31 August 2012 permanent dead link Stephen 2018 p 53 Lambourne Helen 22 July 2009 New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton Worksop Today Retrieved 21 February 2010 Stephen 2018 pp 48 53 Sources Edit Anderson Paul June 2013 Hawkins Chris ed Out and About with Anderson Railway Bylines Clophill Irwell Press Ltd 18 7 ISSN 1360 2098 Anderson Paul Cupit Jack 2000 An Illustrated History of Mansfield s Railways Clophill Irwell Press ISBN 978 1 903266 15 1 Booth Chris 2013 The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the Dukeries Route and branches Vol Two Langwith Junction to Lincoln the Mansfield Railway and Mid Nott s Joint Line Blurb ISBN 978 1 78155 660 3 06884827 Bradshaw George 1985 July 1922 Bradshaw s General Railway and Steam Navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland A reprint of the July 1922 issue Newton Abbot David amp Charles ISBN 978 0 7153 8708 5 OCLC 12500436 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 Collinson Kim March 2010 Gellatly Bob ed On Great Central Lines Today Forward Anston Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society 163 ISSN 0141 4488 Collinson Kim September 2010 Gellatly Bob ed On Great Central Lines Today Forward Anston Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society 165 ISSN 0141 4488 Cupit Jack February 1956 Allen G Freeman ed The end of Passenger Services on the Mansfield Railway Trains Illustrated Hampton Court Surrey Ian Allan Ltd IX 2 Cupit J Taylor W 1984 1966 The Lancashire Derbyshire amp East Coast Railway Oakwood Library of Railway History 2nd ed Headington Oakwood Press ISBN 978 0 85361 302 2 OL19 Dow George 1965 Great Central Volume Three Fay Sets the Pace 1900 1922 Shepperton Ian Allan ISBN 978 0 7110 0263 0 OCLC 500447049 DVD2 2005 Diesels Along The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Chesterfield Terminus Publications DVD stills and film with commentary 60 mins Garratt Colin Priestley Henry 1996 Great Railway Photographers Henry Priestley Newton Harcourt Milepost 92 5 ISBN 978 1 900193 50 4 Gilks David April 2002 Blakemore Michael ed Mr Arkwright s Railway Back Track Penryn Atlantic Publishers 16 4 Kaye A R 1988 North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age Volume 2 Chesterfield Lowlander Publications ISBN 978 0 946930 09 8 NoAuthor 2011 1948 British Railways Atlas 1947 The Last Days of the Big Four Shepperton Ian Allan Publishing ISBN 978 0 7110 3643 7 Stephen Paul May 2018 Harris Nigel ed Robin Hood Line time for an extension RAIL Peterborough Bauer Media 853 ISSN 0953 4563 Walker Colin 1991 Eastern Region Steam Twilight Part 2 North of Grantham Llangollen Pendyke Publications ISBN 978 0 904318 14 2 Waller Peter 2004 Working Steam LNER 2 6 0s Shepperton Ian Allan Publishing ISBN 978 0 7110 3061 9 Further reading EditLudlam A J March 2013 Kennedy Rex ed The Lancashire Derbyshire amp East Coast Railway Steam Days Bournemouth Redgauntlet 1993 Publications 283 ISSN 0269 0020 External links EditOllerton railway station on navigable 1947 O S Mapnpe Maps Ollerton signalbox pictures Signalboxes High Marnham Test Track photos Signalboxes Ollerton Colliery history Ollerton and Area 2016 Ollerton re opening meeting Notts TV Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ollerton railway station amp oldid 1116150663, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
