Tuxford North railway station
| Tuxford North | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Tuxford |
| Area | Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire |
| Grid reference | SK 747 714 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Great Northern Railway |
| Pre-grouping | GNR |
| Post-grouping |
LNER British Railways |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1852 | Opened as Tuxford |
| 1 July 1923 | Renamed Tuxford North |
| July 1955 | Closed |
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| 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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Tuxford North railway station is a former railway station in Tuxford, Nottinghamshire.
There were three Tuxford stations, though none was very near the centre of the village. They were:
The positions of the three stations are most easily seen on the "External Links", below.
The station was opened in 1852 by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on its main line from Kings Cross to Doncaster. The GNR became part of the LNER in 1923 then British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The station had two platforms and a signal box, originally simply named "Tuxford", which controlled the Lincoln Road level crossing immediately north of the station. The road is now the A6075 and the level crossing has been replaced by a bridge over the busy tracks slightly to the South.
The station was closed in 1955 and has since been razed to the ground.
The tracks through the station site are now primarily used as part of the electrified East Coast Main Line.
For 45 years from opening until 1897 the GNR station was the only Tuxford station. Local trains called, the next stops being Retford to the north and Crow Park to the south. In 1897 The LD&ECR opened its line from Chesterfield Market Place to Lincoln and turned Tuxford into something of a railway village overnight, by adding two extra stations, a locomotive works, an engine shed, two marshalling yards and a North-to-West connection ("chord") between the two lines. They also built earthworks for a South-to-West connection, but tracks were never laid.
Tuxford's three stations were connected, effectively forming a triangle. However, it was only ever possible to catch trains along two sides of the triangle, ie
Traffic along the third side of the triangle between Tuxford Central and Tuxford North was mainly freight, supplemented by Summer weekend excursions from the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire area to the Yorkshire Coast; these passed through both stations without stopping.
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