Aslockton railway station
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History
Passenger services from Aslockton started on 15 July 1850,[1] when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened its extension from Nottingham to Grantham. This was taken over by the Great Northern Railway.[2]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The station building designed by Thomas Chambers Hine was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857.
On 12 October 1868 a goods train that left Nottingham at 4.15 am split near Aslockton station when one of the coupling chains broke. The driver shunted on to the down line, and while it got back onto the up line, a goods train from Grantham ran into it. The driver of the Grantham train, Smalley Hutchinson, was killed and its fireman severely injured.[3]
On 31 December 1904, George Skillington, aged 78, was killed on the line at Aslockton by a light engine.[4]
The station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway under the Grouping of 1923.
On 23 July 1933 an excursion train from Skegness to Nottingham crashed through the level crossing gates at Aslockton.[5] On 1 August 1937, a nine-year-old boy, Ernest Love of Sneinton, Nottingham, fell from a Nottingham to Mablethorpe excursion train at Aslockton and was killed.[6]
The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel multiple-unit trains.[7]
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways. The station is now managed by East Midlands Railway.
Stationmasters
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- David Bennett Fenn c. 1851
- Mr. Buffam c. 1857
- Edwin Frost c. 1861
- Alfred Andrews c. 1868
- Robert A. Theobald c. 1871
- Henry Chapman c. 1880
- John George Eyre c. 1881
- Richard H. Simpson c. 1891
- Albert Edward Hyde 1901 – c. 1905
- William Poole 1931–1933[8] (formerly stationmaster at Cotham)
- Arthur Gilbert 1933 – c. 1950 (formerly stationmaster at Elton and Orston)
- George Kingston from 1957[9] (formerly stationmaster at Scalford)
Services
There are trains every hour or two hours to Nottingham and to Boston and Skegness via Grantham. There are less frequent trains to destinations such as Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street. On Sundays, there are normally three services – one to Liverpool Lime Street, one to Skegness and one to Norwich.
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Bottesford Line and station open |
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style="background:#Template:GNR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Bottesford Line and station open |
| Bingham Line and station open |
style="background:#Template:GNR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Newark |
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See also
References
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- Station on navigable O.S. map
External links
- Train times and station information for Aslockton railway station from National Rail
- Aslockton Station Master's House
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- Railway stations in Nottinghamshire
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- Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
- Grade II listed buildings in Nottinghamshire
- Thomas Chambers Hine railway stations
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