Ollerton railway station
| Ollerton | |
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| Location | |
| Area | Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire |
| Grid reference | SK 649 667 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | LD&ECR |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping |
LNER British Railways |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 15 December 1896 | Opened |
| 19 September 1955 | scheduled services ended |
| 6 September 1964 | excursions end, station closed |
| 6 July 1991 | reopened |
| 8 July 1991 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Ollerton railway station is a former railway station in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, England.
The station was opened by the LD&ECR in March 1897 and closed to local passenger traffic in 1955, though Summer holiday excursions to and from the East Coast continued to call until September 1964.
The station, goods shed and signalbox were built to standard LD&ECR patterns. Large water tanks were erected at both ends of the site.
There never was a Sunday service at Ollerton.
Two services called at Ollerton in 1922:
3 trains per day plied between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln with a market day extra on Fridays between Langwith Junction and Lincoln. All these trains called at all stations. The truncated remains of this service ended in September 1955.
3 trains per day terminated at Ollerton from Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central then went back again half an hour or so later. This service was later cut back to Edwinstowe. A fourth train ran to Nottingham Victoria Monday to Friday, but on Saturdays it started from Lincoln and ran through to Leicester Central. This service did not survive WW2.
Summer Saturday holiday trains survived until 1964.
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. The Royal Train used Ollerton Station from which the Royal Party went to a ducal residence by road.
A branch was built to serve Ollerton Colliery which opened in 1926. This branch has now been severed from the "Main Line". In the mid-twentieth century, the LMS and 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 GCR line near Retford. Only the section between Ollerton and Farnsfield was built. The southern section to Bestwood Park was completed in the 1950s to serve the new Calverton Colliery.
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