Collingham railway station is in the village of

Collingham, Nottinghamshire Collingham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. The population (including Brough) at the 2011 Census was 2,738. Collingham is located on the banks of the River Trent on the A1133 main road, just off the A46. It is appro ...

, England, on the

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. It is owned by

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and managed by

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, which provide all services.

History

It is on the

, which was engineered by

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and opened by the

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on 3 August 1846. The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham; The

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station building in aggressive Italianate style is dated ca. 1848 and is thought to be by the architect I.A. Davies. On 2 January 1854 a mail train from Nottingham to Lincoln experienced a failure of two wheels under the brake van. The Newark Road crossing keeper saw the guard's red light signal and switched on his danger signal bringing the train to a halt before any serious damage was done. Five days later on 7 January, a train leaving Collingham for Lincoln experienced some fragmentation of some of the engine wheels. Fortunately no injuries were sustained. On 5 August 1857 an excursion train was proceeding from Carlton to Grimsby. Shortly after passing Collingham a number of the carriages derailed. Some passengers jumped from the carriages, and a young woman 18 years of age, Miss Brewster of Stoke Bardolph, was killed. On 18 March 1861 George Taylor, an employee of George Johnson

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, was loading a cart with coal. Perceiving that the ass and cart were in danger of being run over by a truck which was being shunted from the main line into the siding, he leaped from the truck and applied the brake. He was then hit by the buffer of a loaded truck and knocked down. The wheel went over his right leg and at the hospital in Newark later that evening, it was amputated.

Stationmasters

On 6 May 1848, Meynell Huntley, station master, was charged at Nottingham Assizes with embezzling money belonging to the

. At the trial in July held before Lord Chief Justice Denman he pleaded guilty to the theft of three cheques with a total value of £30 6s (). Despite having a wife and family he was sentenced to 12 years transportation. He was imprisoned in the Hulks at Woolwich until he was transported on the Hashemy which departed England on 19 July 1850 and arrived in Western Australia on 25 October 1850. *Meynell Huntley until 1848 *George Midwinter 1848 - 1868 *Samuel Theodore Bunning 1868 - 1869 (afterwards station master at Beeston) *Thomas Grundy ca. 1871 - 1876 *Edward Brown 1876 - 1878 *Frederick J. Bent 1878 - 1880 (afterwards station master at Barton and Walton) *William Doughty 1880 - 1884 *Charles Larkin 1884 - 1890 (afterwards station master at Bentham) *Alfred Lee 1890 - 1895 *J.W. Harrison 1895 - 1900 *Arthur Edward Kind 1900 - 1931 *H.A. Collins from 1947 (formerly station master at Bredon)

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and facilities are limited. The station has a shelter on each platform as well modern help points and

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storage. The station has no

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and the full range of tickets can be purchased from the

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on board the train. The station also has a large 58 space

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which opened in May 2014 to help boost passenger numbers at the station. Step-free access is available to both the platforms at Collingham.

Services

All services at Collingham are operated by

. Trains are frequent throughout the day and, according to local media, it is the second most-used station on the Nottingham-Lincoln line, after Newark Castle. In December 2008, the station had its most frequent service ever. The station is generally served by an hourly service southbound to via and northbound to . One train every two hours continues beyond Lincoln to , with a limited service continuing further to . The station is also served by five trains per day between Lincoln and . The station is also served by two trains per day to and one train per day from

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which are operated using a Class 222 ''Meridian''. A roughly hourly service also serves the station on Sundays although services run only as far as Nottingham and do not serve stations to Leicester. There are no services to London on Sundays.

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