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{{short description|Former railway station in Nottinghamshire, England}}
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{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Ollerton
| status              = Disused
| image               = 
| borough             = [[Ollerton]], [[Newark and Sherwood]]
| country             = England
| coordinates         = {{coord|53.1943|-1.0291|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|SK 649 667|25|SK 649 667}}
| platforms           = 2
| original            = [[Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway|LD&ECR]]
| pregroup            = [[Great Central Railway]]
| postgroup           = [[London and North Eastern Railway|LNER]]<br />[[British Railways]]
| years1              = 15 December 1896
| events1             = Opened
| years2              = 19 September 1955
| events2             = scheduled services ended
| years3              = 6 September 1964
| events3             = excursions end, station closed
| years4              = 6 July 1991
| events4             = reopened
| years5              = 8 July 1991
| events5             = Closed{{sfn|Butt|1995|p=178}}
}}
{{Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway|collapse=yes}}
[[File:LDECR.jpg|250px|thumb|right|LD&ECR and [[Sheffield District Railway]]]]
[[File:ChesterfieldMPHandbill1950.jpg|thumb|1950 Excursion Advert]]
'''Ollerton railway station''' is a former [[Train station|railway station]] in [[Ollerton]], [[Nottinghamshire]], England.

==History==
The station was opened by the [[Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway|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.{{sfn|Walker|1991|loc=Inside front cover}}{{sfn|Waller|2004|p=38}}

The station,{{sfn|Kaye|1988|p=72}}{{sfn|Dow|1965|p=166}} goods shed{{sfn|Collinson|2010a|p=21}} and signalbox<ref>[http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCE003996&pos=4&action=zoom&id=75738 Ollerton station :via ''PictureThePast'']</ref> were built to standard LD&ECR patterns. Large water tanks were erected at both ends of the site.{{sfn|Anderson|Cupit|2000|p=53}}{{sfn|Garratt|Priestley|1996|p=7}}{{sfn|Anderson|2013|p=340}}{{sfn|Stephen|2018|p=52}}

==Former services==
Two services called at Ollerton in 1922, but not on Sundays.

Three trains per day ran between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln. These called at all stations.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=718}} The truncated remains of this service ended in September 1955.{{sfn|Anderson|Cupit|2000|p=53}}

Three trains per day terminated at Ollerton from Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central then went back again half an hour or so later.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=701}} This service was later cut back to Edwinstowe.{{sfn|Cupit|1956|p=61}} A fourth train ran to Nottingham Victoria Monday to Friday, but on Saturdays it started from Lincoln and ran through to Leicester Central.{{sfn|Bradshaw|1985|p=696}} This service did not survive the [[Second World War]].

Summer Saturday holiday trains survived until 1964.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/onemananhisdog/6175032545/ 1964 Working Timetable (Up): via ''flickr'']</ref><ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/onemananhisdog/6175557080/ 1964 Working Timetable (Down): via ''flickr'']</ref>

==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 Stakes|St Leger]]. The [[Royal Train]] used Ollerton station{{sfn|Gilks|2002|p=205}} from which the Royal Party went to a ducal residence by road.{{sfn|Cupit|Taylor|1984|pp=36-8}}{{sfn|Booth|2013|p=33}}

==Coal==
A branch was built to serve Ollerton Colliery which opened in 1926.{{sfn|DVD2|2005|loc=film, 49-55 mins from start}} This branch has now been severed from the "Main Line".{{sfn|Collinson|2010b|p=33}} In the mid-twentieth century, the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway|LMS]] and [[London and North Eastern Railway|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 [[Great Central Railway|GCR]] line near [[Retford]]. Only the section between Ollerton and [[Farnsfield]] was built.{{sfn|Booth|2013|p=38}} The southern section to Bestwood Park was completed in the 1950s to serve the new Calverton Colliery.{{sfn|Cupit|Taylor|1984|p=19}}

Further eastwards the line climbed at around 1-in-150 towards [[Boughton railway station (Nottinghamshire)|Boughton]] as it crossed a ridge before the valley of the [[River Trent]].{{sfn|NoAuthor|2011|p=16}}

==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 railway station (Nottinghamshire)|Boughton]], [[Tuxford Central railway station|Tuxford Central]] and [[Dukeries Junction railway station|Dukeries Junction]], all these stations were closed by 1955.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/content/detail.aspx?releaseid=4469|title=Preparing for the Future: Network Rail Opens Vehicle Development Centre|date=10 July 2009|access-date=31 August 2012|publisher=Network Rail|work=Press Releases}}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The platforms remained in place in Spring 2018, 54 years after closure.{{sfn|Stephen|2018|p=53}}

==The future==
There have been hypothetical suggestions of reopening the line as a branch off the [[Robin Hood Line]] and reopening [[Warsop railway station|Warsop]], [[Edwinstowe railway station|Edwinstowe]] and Ollerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham.<ref name="guardian">
{{cite web
  |url = http://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/shirebrook-and-bolsover-area-news/New-bid-to-extend-rail.5478521.jp
  |title = New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton
  |first = Helen
  |last = Lambourne
  |publisher = Worksop Today
  |date = 22 July 2009
  |access-date = 21 February 2010}}</ref><ref>"Town's history of rail". ''Chad'', 26 February, 2014, pp.18-19. Accessed 9 March, 2023</ref>{{sfn|Stephen|2018|pp=48-53}}

{{center|'''Former Services'''}}
{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{Rail line
|previous=[[Edwinstowe railway station|Edwinstowe]]<br /><small>Line and station closed</small>
|next=[[Boughton (Nottinghamshire) railway station|Boughton]]<br /><small>Line and station closed</small>
|route=[[Great Central Railway]]<br /><small>[[Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway]]</small>
|col={{GCR colour}}
}}
{{end}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

===Sources===
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Paul |editor1-first=Chris |editor1-last=Hawkins |date=June 2013 |title=Out and About with Anderson |journal=Railway Bylines |volume=18 |issue=7 |publisher=Irwell Press Ltd |location=[[Clophill]] |issn=1360-2098 }}
*{{cite book |title=An Illustrated History of Mansfield's Railways |first1=Paul |last1=Anderson |first2=Jack |last2=Cupit |publisher=Irwell Press |location=[[Clophill]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-903266-15-1 }}
*{{cite book |last=Booth |first=Chris |title=The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches |volume=Two: Langwith Junction to Lincoln, the Mansfield Railway and Mid Nott's Joint Line |year=2013 |publisher=Blurb |isbn=978-1-78155-660-3 |id=06884827 }}
*{{Bradshaw-1922July}}
*{{Butt-Stations}}
*{{cite journal |last=Collinson |first=Kim |editor1-first=Bob |editor1-last=Gellatly |date=March 2010 |title=On Great Central Lines Today |journal=Forward |volume=163 |publisher=Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society |location=[[Anston]]|issn=0141-4488 |ref={{Harvid|Collinson|2010a}} }}
*{{cite journal |last=Collinson |first=Kim |editor1-first=Bob |editor1-last=Gellatly |date=September 2010 |title=On Great Central Lines Today |journal=Forward |volume=165 |publisher=Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society |location=[[Anston]]|issn=0141-4488 |ref={{Harvid|Collinson|2010b}}}}
*{{cite journal |last=Cupit |first=Jack |editor1-first=G. Freeman |editor1-last=Allen |editor-link=G. Freeman Allen |date=February 1956 |title=The end of Passenger Services on the Mansfield Railway |journal=[[Trains Illustrated]] |volume=IX| issue =  2 |publisher=Ian Allan Ltd |location= Hampton Court, Surrey }}
*{{cite book |last1=Cupit |first1=J. |last2=Taylor |first2=W. |title=The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway |edition=2nd |series=Oakwood Library of Railway History |year=1984 |orig-year=1966 |publisher=Oakwood Press |location=[[Headington]] |isbn=978-0-85361-302-2 |id=OL19 }}
*{{Dow-GC3}}
*{{cite AV media |last= DVD2 |title=Diesels Along:-The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway |year=2005 |publisher=Terminus Publications |location=[[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]] |id=DVD, stills and film with commentary, 60 mins }}
*{{cite book |last1=Garratt |first1=Colin |last2=Priestley |first2=Henry |title=Great Railway Photographers - Henry Priestley |year=1996 |publisher=Milepost 92.5 |location=[[Newton Harcourt]]|isbn=978-1-900193-50-4 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Gilks |first=David |editor1-first=Michael |editor1-last=Blakemore |date=April 2002 |title=Mr. Arkwright's Railway |journal=Back Track |volume=16 |issue=4 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers |location=[[Penryn, Cornwall|Penryn]] }}
*{{cite book |last1=Kaye |first1=A.R. |title=North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2 |year=1988 |publisher=Lowlander Publications |location=[[Chesterfield, Derbyshire|Chesterfield]] |isbn=978-0-946930-09-8 }}
*{{cite book |title=British Railways Atlas 1947: The Last Days of the Big Four |last1=NoAuthor |publisher= Ian Allan Publishing |location=[[Shepperton]] |year=2011 |orig-year=1948 |isbn=978-0-7110-3643-7 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Stephen |first=Paul |editor-first=Nigel |editor-last=Harris |date=May 2018 |title=Robin Hood Line: time for an extension? | journal=[[Rail (magazine)|RAIL]] |volume=853 |publisher=Bauer Media |location=[[Peterborough]] |issn=0953-4563 }}
*{{cite book |title=Eastern Region Steam Twilight, Part 2, North of Grantham |first=Colin |last=Walker |publisher= Pendyke Publications |location=[[Llangollen]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-904318-14-2 }}
*{{cite book |title=Working Steam LNER 2-6-0s |first=Peter |last1=Waller |publisher= Ian Allan Publishing |location=[[Shepperton]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7110-3061-9 }}
{{refend}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite journal |last=Ludlam |first=A.J. |editor1-first=Rex |editor1-last=Kennedy |date=March 2013 |title=The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway |journal=Steam Days |volume=283  |publisher=Redgauntlet 1993 Publications |location=Bournemouth |issn=0269-0020 }}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#464,367,1 Ollerton railway station on navigable 1947 O.S. Map]''npe Maps''
*[http://signalboxes.com/ollerton-station-and-signalbox.php Ollerton signalbox pictures] ''Signalboxes''
*[http://signalboxes.com/the-new-rail-innovation-and-development-centre.php High Marnham Test Track photos] ''Signalboxes''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120525162854/http://www.ollertonandarea.org.uk/our-heritage/heritage-articles/ollerton-colliery-a-brief-history Ollerton Colliery history] ''Ollerton and Area''
*[http://nottstv.com/talks-begin-extend-robin-hood-rail-line-build-new-stations/ 2016 Ollerton re-opening meeting] ''Notts TV''

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