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{{For|the former railway station in [[Collingham, West Yorkshire]]|Collingham Bridge railway station}}
{{Short description|Railway station in Nottinghamshire, England}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Collingham
| symbol_location     = gb
| symbol              = rail
| image               = Collingham Railway Station.jpg
| borough             = [[Collingham, Nottinghamshire|Collingham]], [[Newark and Sherwood]]
| country             = England
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|SK836614|25|SK836614}}
| manager             = [[East Midlands Railway]]
| platforms           = 2
| code                = CLM
| classification      = [[United Kingdom railway station categories|DfT category]] F2
| years1              = {{start date|1846|08|03|df=y}}
| events1             = Opened
| mpassengers =
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{increase}} 128,032}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 23,820}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 87,440}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 108,074}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{increase}} 118,164}}
| footnotes           = Passenger statistics from the [[Office of Rail and Road]]
| embedded = {{Infobox designation list|embed=yes
| designation1        = Grade II
| designation1_feature = Station House
| designation1_date   = 17 October 1984
| designation1_number = 1157045<ref name="Listing">{{National Heritage List for England|num=1157045 |desc=Station House |access-date=21 March 2021 |mode=cs2}}</ref>
}}
}}
'''Collingham railway station''' is in the village of [[Collingham, Nottinghamshire]], England, on the [[Nottingham to Lincoln Line]]. It is owned by [[Network Rail]] and managed by [[East Midlands Railway]], which provide all services.

==History==
It is on the [[Nottingham to Lincoln Line]], which was engineered by [[George Stephenson]] and opened by the [[Midland Railway]] on 3 August 1846.<ref name="LC1846"/> The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham;<ref name="LC1846">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Opening of the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000354/18460807/008/0003  |newspaper=Lincolnshire Chronicle |location=England |date=7 August 1846 |access-date=2 March 2016 |via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> The [[Grade II listed]]<ref name="Listing"/> station building in aggressive Italianate style is dated ca. 1848 and is thought to be by the architect [[John Davies (architect)|I.A. Davies]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |last2=Williamson |first2=Elizabeth |last3= Hartwell |first3=Clare |author-link= |date=2020 |title=The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire |url= |location= |publisher=Yale University Press |page=189 |isbn=9780300247831}}</ref>

On 2 January 1854 a mail train from Nottingham to Lincoln experienced a failure of two wheels under the brake van. The Newark Road crossing keeper saw the guard's red light signal and switched on his danger signal bringing the train to a halt before any serious damage was done.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Collingham| url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000176/18540112/037/0008 |newspaper=Nottinghamshire Guardian |location=England  |date=12 January 1854  |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> Five days later on 7 January, a train leaving Collingham for Lincoln experienced some fragmentation of some of the engine wheels. Fortunately no injuries were sustained.

On 5 August 1857 an excursion train was proceeding from Carlton to Grimsby.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=2219 |title=Accident at Collingham on 5th August 1857 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Railways Archive |publisher= |access-date=21 March 2021 |quote=}}</ref> Shortly after passing Collingham a number of the carriages derailed. Some passengers jumped from the carriages, and a young woman 18 years of age, Miss Brewster of Stoke Bardolph, was killed.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Railway Accident | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000354/18570807/015/0005 |newspaper=Lincolnshire Chronicle |location=England  |date=7 August 1857  |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref>

On 18 March 1861 George Taylor, an employee of George Johnson [[coal merchant]], was loading a cart with coal. Perceiving that the ass and cart were in danger of being run over by a truck which was being shunted from the main line into the siding, he leaped from the truck and applied the brake. He was then hit by the buffer of a loaded truck and knocked down. The wheel went over his right leg and at the hospital in Newark later that evening, it was amputated.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Collingham. Fearful Accident | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000176/18610321/039/0008 |newspaper=Nottinghamshire Guardian |location=England  |date=21 March 1861  |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref>

===Stationmasters===
On 6 May 1848, Meynell Huntley, station master, was charged at Nottingham Assizes with embezzling money belonging to the [[Midland Railway]]. At the trial in July held before [[Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman|Lord Chief Justice Denman]] he pleaded guilty to the theft of three cheques with a total value of £30 6s ({{Inflation|UK|30.3|1848|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} Despite having a wife and family he was sentenced to 12 years transportation.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Embezzlement by a Railway Station Master| url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000252/18480729/072/0005 |newspaper=Staffordshire Advertiser |location=England  |date=1 September 1848  |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> He was imprisoned in the Hulks at Woolwich<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Convict| url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000354/18480901/016/0005 |newspaper=Lincolnshire Chronicle |location=England  |date=1 September 1848  |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> until he was transported on the [[Hashemy (1817 ship)|Hashemy]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/huntley/meynell/13047 |title=Meynell Huntley, one of 100 convicts transported on the Hashemy, 19 July 1850 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=Convict Records |publisher= |access-date=21 March 2021 |quote=}}</ref> which departed England on 19 July 1850 and arrived in Western Australia on 25 October 1850.
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*Meynell Huntley until 1848
*George Midwinter 1848 - 1868
*Samuel Theodore Bunning 1868 - 1869 (afterwards station master at Beeston)
*Thomas Grundy ca. 1871 - 1876<ref name=MR1871a>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1871 |title=1871-1879 Coaching |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_636897_0431-00224?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=397 |doi= |access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref>
*Edward Brown 1876 - 1878<ref name=MR1871b>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1871 |title=1871-1879 Coaching |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_636897_0431-00453?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=856 |doi= |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
*Frederick J. Bent 1878 - 1880<ref name=MR1871b/> (afterwards station master at Barton and Walton)
*William Doughty 1880<ref name=MR1871b/> - 1884<ref name=MR1881>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1881 |title=1881-1898 Coaching |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_626640_0604-00260?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=509 |doi= |access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref> 
*Charles Larkin 1884 - 1890<ref name=MR1881/> (afterwards station master at Bentham)
*Alfred Lee 1890 - 1895<ref name=MR1881/>
*J.W. Harrison 1895<ref name=MR1881/> - 1900<ref name=MR1899>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1899 |title=1899-1908 Coaching; Piece 1027 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1728/images/32167_636897_0432-00175?ssrc=&backlabel=Return |journal=Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts |volume= |issue= |pages=354 |doi= |access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref>
*Arthur Edward Kind 1900 - 1931
*H.A. Collins from 1947<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Bredon Stationmaster leaving | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000320/19470906/055/0004 |newspaper=Gloucestershire Echo |location=England  |date=6 September 1947 |access-date=21 March 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription  }}</ref> (formerly station master at Bredon)
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==Facilities==
The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern [[passenger information system|help points]] and [[bicycle]] storage. The station has no [[ticket machines]] and the full range of tickets can be purchased from the [[conductor (transportation)|guard]] on board the train.

The station also has a large 58 space [[car park]] which opened in May 2014 to help boost passenger numbers at the station.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Collingham-station-car-park-development-2009.aspx|title=Collingham station car park development|date=28 February 2014|publisher=Network Rail|access-date=4 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306102704/https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Collingham-station-car-park-development-2009.aspx|archive-date=6 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Step-free access is available to both the platforms at Collingham.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/trains-stations/at-the-station/station-facilities/clm|title=Collingham station information|work=East Midlands Railway|access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref>

==Services==
All services at Collingham are operated by [[East Midlands Railway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/regional|title=EMR Regional Fleet|work=[[East Midlands Railway]]|access-date=18 May 2021}}</ref>

Trains are frequent throughout the day and, according to local media, it is the second most-used station on the Nottingham-Lincoln line, after [[Newark Castle railway station|Newark Castle]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Station Estimate Usage|url=http://orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates|website=Office of Rail and Road|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> In December 2008, the station had its most frequent service ever.<ref>{{cite news |title=125mph trains to cut journey times |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&t=pubname%3ANEP1%21Nottingham%2BPost%2B%2528England%2529/year%3A2008%212008/mody%3A0412%21April%2B12&action=browse&format=text&docref=news/1200BCDF90372F20 |access-date=4 July 2020 |work=infoweb.newsbank.com |date=12 April 2008|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The station is generally served by an hourly service southbound to {{stnlnk|Leicester}} via {{stnlnk|Nottingham}} and northbound to {{stnlnk|Lincoln}}. One train every two hours continues beyond Lincoln to {{stnlnk|Grimsby Town}}, with a limited service continuing further to {{stnlnk|Cleethorpes}}. The station is also served by five trains per day between Lincoln and {{stnlnk|Newark Northgate}}.<ref>{{NRtimes|May 2022|27}}</ref>

The station is also served by two trains per day to and one train per day from [[St Pancras railway station|London St Pancras International]] which are operated using a [[British Rail Class 222|Class 222 ''Meridian'']]. 

A roughly hourly service also serves the station on Sundays although services run only as far as Nottingham and do not serve stations to Leicester. There are no services to London on Sundays.

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==See also==
*[[Listed buildings in Collingham, Nottinghamshire]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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{{Railway stations in Nottinghamshire}}
{{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway}}

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