Beeston railway station
Beeston 
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Beeston Station in 2012
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| Location | |
| Place | Beeston |
| Local authority | Borough of Broxtowe |
| Grid reference | SK533362 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BEE |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.540 million |
| – Interchange |
73,307 |
| 2012/13 |
0.546 million |
| – Interchange |
77,129 |
| 2013/14 |
0.573 million |
| – Interchange |
83,960 |
| 2014/15 |
0.610 million |
| – Interchange |
85,292 |
| 2015/16 |
 0.574 million |
| – Interchange |
83,522 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1839 |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Beeston Railway Station, including the canopy to platform one and shelters on platforms one and two |
| Listing grade | Grade II listed (since 5 December 2014) |
| Entry number | 1247961 |
| Added to list | 11 March 1987 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Beeston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Beeston railway station is a Grade II listed railway station on the Midland Main Line which serves the town of Beeston in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south-west of Nottingham railway station, and 750 metres (0.5 mi) south-east of Beeston transport interchange for local buses and Nottingham Express Transit trams. The station is managed by East Midlands Trains.
Beeston station is on the Midland Main Line, 123 miles 22 chains (198.4 km) from London, on the spur towards Nottingham. There are two platforms: platform 1 to the north for trains towards Nottingham and Lincoln and platform 2 to the south for trains towards London, Leicester, Birmingham and Derby. The platforms may be accessed either by steps from the Station Road bridge or by short ramps from Station Road for Platform 1 or Technology Drive for Platform 2.
Services at Beeston are provided by East Midlands Trains and CrossCountry, with the former providing most services and managing the station. There are usually 4 trains per hour from each direction. The East Midlands Trains stopping service between London and Nottingham (via Loughborough, Leicester, Market Harborough, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford and Luton Airport Parkway) calls in each direction, as do the Leicester-Lincoln Central via Newark Castle and the Newark Castle/Nottingham-Matlock via Derby services. The hourly CrossCountry Nottingham-Birmingham New Street via Derby service also stops here, along with a few through trains to/from Cardiff Central. There is also a single daily direct CrossCountry southbound only service to Bournemouth via Derby, Birmingham New Street and Reading.
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