Blidworth and Rainworth railway station was a railway station which served the villages of

Blidworth Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 4,457. Its history can be traced back to the 10th century, although many of t ...

and

Rainworth Rainworth is a village in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. It is split between the local government districts of Newark and Sherwood and Mansfield.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): To ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

, England.

History

The station opened in 1871 as ''Rainworth'' when the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

opened a line from Southwell to Mansfield. It was renamed ''Blidworth'' on 24 March 1877. The station closed to passengers on 12 August 1929 when the Mansfield to Southwell section, which passed through a

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area, closed to passengers. The railway replaced it with a road motor omnibus service provided in conjunction with Mansfield and District Tramways Limited connecting with the railway stations between Mansfield and Newark. Freight services continued until 25 June 1964. Nothing remains of the station or trackbed and it has been lost to a housing development called Curzon Close.

Services

File:Mansfield, Southwell and Newark Midland Railway timetable 1871.jpg, Timetable from the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald Saturday 12 August 1871 showing the station named as Rainworth File:Mansfield, Southwell and Newark timetable November 1878.jpg, Timetable from Mansfield Reporter, 29 November 1878 showing the station named as Blidworth

Stationmasters

*A. Nowell 1872 - 1875 (formerly station master at Worthington) *E. Prisgrane 1875 - 1879 *G. Lambert 1879 - 1884 *W. Doughty 1884 - 1908 *Charles Walter Chapple 1908 - 1929

References

{{Closed stations Nottinghamshire Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1871 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1929 Former Midland Railway stations Rainworth