Place Mansfield Station code MFT DfT category F1 Address Mansfield, United Kingdom | Grid reference SK536608 Managed by East Midlands Trains 2011/12 0.367 million Number of platforms 2 | |
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Similar Mansfield Woodhouse railway st, Sutton Parkway railway st, Shirebrook railway station, Creswell railway station, Fiskerton railway station | ||
Mansfield railway station is a Grade II listed railway station which serves the large town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England. Alternatively it is named Mansfield Town, to distinguish itself from Mansfield Woodhouse and the GCR's former Mansfield Central. The station is 17 miles (27 km) north of Nottingham on the Robin Hood Line, and is managed by East Midlands Trains.
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The station has the PlusBus scheme, where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.
Before the station was reopened in 1995, the town was the largest in the United Kingdom without one, all the more remarkable when it is considered that Mansfield pioneered the railway in the East Midlands. The then-nearest railway station, Alfreton, was known as Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway.
Services
Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service from Mansfield to Nottingham (southbound), and one to Mansfield Woodhouse (northbound) with an hourly service onwards to Worksop. There is an hourly service during the evenings between Nottingham and Worksop. There is also one daily service Mondays to Fridays from Mansfield Woodhouse directly to Norwich; however, there is no corresponding service in the opposite direction.
On Sundays an irregular service (nine trains each way) runs between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse only.
History
The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built in 1819. It was bought by the Midland Railway, which used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849.
The present station building was constructed by the Midland Railway in 1872; it acquired listed building status, but following closure in 1964 Mansfield remained isolated from the railway system until 1995, when the Robin Hood Line was reopened to Nottingham.