Sutton in Ashfield
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Sutton in Ashfield Central Railway Station
This is the station
that is next to the A38 and station road Central Station
Photo: Ian Gill
Between 1913-16, the Mansfield Railway pushed a line westwards from the Great Central's Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast route at Clipstone to the GC's main line at Kirkby Bentinck. Its aim was to compete for East Midlands coal traffic.
To overcome the embankment carrying the Midland's branch to Sutton-in-Ashfield, the company was obliged to create a tunnel through it of around 50 yards in length. The line survived only until 1966 whilst the tunnel now lies under the southbound carriageway of the A38 Sutton-in-Ashfield bypass
The station was opened in 1917 by the Mansfield Railway, along with Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central and Sutton-in-Ashfield Central. The line, and its stations, was worked by the Great Central Railway and became part of the LNER in 1923 and subsequently British Railways in 1948.
Most regular passenger trains plied between Nottingham Victoria and Mansfield Central, with some extending to Edwinstowe[3][4] and Ollerton.[5] In the station's early years some services plied between Mansfield Central and stations between Warsop and Chesterfield Market Place.[6]
Timetabled services ceased on 3 January 1956, though Summer weekend excursion traffic to Scarborough, Cleethorpes, Skegness and Mablethorpe[7][8] continued until 8 September 1962.[9]
The line through the station was closed on 7 January 1968 and subsequently lifted. The station and its associated earthworks were razed to the ground in 1972.
