Shirebrook railway station
Shirebrook 
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Shirebrook railway station in 2011.
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| Location | |
| Place | Shirebrook |
| Local authority | Bolsover |
| Coordinates | 53°12′14.9″N 1°12′9.4″W / 53.204139°N 1.202611°WCoordinates: 53°12′14.9″N 1°12′9.4″W / 53.204139°N 1.202611°W |
| Grid reference | SK533677 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SHB |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 66,668 |
| 2012/13 |
71,774 |
| 2013/14 |
 63,635 |
| 2014/15 |
74,738 |
| 2015/16 |
87,276 |
| History | |
| Original company | Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 June 1875 | Opened as Shirebrook |
| 18 June 1951 | Renamed Shirebrook West |
| 12 October 1964 | Closed |
| 1998 | Reopened as Shirebrook |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shirebrook from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Shirebrook railway station serves the town of Shirebrook in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line, 21½ miles (35 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop.
Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service from Shirebrook eastbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham.
On Sundays from 22 May 2011, the Robin Hood line train service runs between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse only. Bus service RH1 replaces Robin Hood line trains between Worksop and Mansfield Woodhouse. It calls at Whitwell, Creswell, Langwith Whaley Thorns and Shirebrook stations and connects with selected trains at Mansfield Woodhouse.
The line and the station were built by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.
In 1951, the station was renamed "Shirebrook West" despite being on the eastern edge of the village. This was to "avoid confusion" with three other stations:
Shirebrook South closed to regular passenger services in 1931, but excursions continued to call at least until 1957. Shirebrook North closed to regular passenger services in 1955, but excursions continued to call until 1964. Shirebrook Colliery Sidings closed by June 1954.
Two branch lines are plainly visible veering off north of the bridge at the north end of Shirebrook station.
The double tracks branching off eastwards (i.e. to the right as viewed from the station) to the side of the signalbox joined the LD&ECR's one-time main line to Lincoln, next stop Warsop. The branch only ever carried a regular passenger service for a few years in Edwardian times. It did, however, carry Summer holiday trains such as the Summer Saturdays Radford to Skegness in at least 1963. The branch's main purpose was always freight traffic, with coal being overwhelmingly dominant.
In 2013 the line gives access to UK Coal's Thoresby Colliery and to the High Marnham Test Track.
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