Fiskerton railway station, is on the

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, situated south-east of the small town of Southwell and serves the village of Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire, England.

History

The station opened on 4 August 1846 by the

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. It was taken over by the

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in 1923, and by

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in 1948. A signal box was installed at the station in 1902. This Midland Railway Type 3a box was downgraded to a gate box from 2 December 1934. A new junction was laid between Fiskerton and the Rolleston Junction to Southwell line in 1929 to allow mineral trains from Mansfield and district to access Nottingham without reversing at Rolleston Junction. At the same time a new signal box was built to a Midland Railway Type 3c design with a 30 lever frame and gate wheel to operate the level crossing barriers. The curve closed on 1 March 1965 and the railway junction was abolished. It is managed by the

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, which provides services to the station. Signalling on the line was upgraded in 2016 when the manual signal boxes were decommissioned and control transferred to the East Midlands

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at Derby. In 2017,

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announced that the platforms would be extended to cater for longer trains. In 2020

announced a plan to relocate the signal box to the

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Railway in Gloucestershire.

Stationmasters

*Thomas Marston 1851 *H. Briggs until 1860 *John Pick 1861 - 1864 (afterwards station master at Beeston) *S Cobb from 1864 *Joseph Monney (or Minney) ca. 1870 until 1873 *Henry Hawkins 1873 *J. Blackwell 1873 - 1877 (formerly station master at Tonge and Breedon) *W. Booth 1875 - 1877 (called upon to resign) *Thomas Braddock 1877 - 1879 *Edward Presgrave 1879 – 1883 (afterwards station master at Barrow upon Soar) *G. Butler 1883 - 1888 *William Tunn 1888 - 1890 (formerly station master at Kirkby Stephen, afterwards station master at Kirkby in Ashfield) *William Henry Higginson 1890 – ca. 1914 *G. Jay 1915 – 1925 (afterwards station master at Desford) *William George Dudderidge from 1925 (also station master at Rolleston Junction) *Arnold Foster 1936 – 1942 *H.J. Lane until 1947 *F.W.E. Clarke from 1947 (formerly stationmaster at Widmerpool) *A. Newcombe ca. 1951 ca. 1955

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern help points. The full range of tickets can be purchased from the

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on the train at no extra cost as there are no retail facilities at this station.

Services

operate all services at Fiskerton using Class 156, 158 and

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. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: * 1 tph to via * 1 tph to The station is also served by a small number of trains between , Nottingham, Lincoln and as well by one per day to, and from

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which is operated using a Class 222 ''Meridian''. On Sundays, there is roughly an hourly service between Nottingham and Lincoln from mid-morning onwards with no service to and from London.

References

Gallery

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External links

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