Inside the car park of Mansfield Police Station where the old Mansfield Central station was located

Mansfield Central is a former

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

that served the town of Mansfield,

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History

The station was opened in 1917 by the

Mansfield Railway The Mansfield Railway was an eleven-mile railway line in Nottinghamshire, England. It was built to serve collieries opening in the coalfield around Mansfield, and ran between junctions at Clipstone and Kirkby-in-Ashfield on the Great Central Ra ...

, along with and . The line, and its stations, was worked by the

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and became part of the

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in 1923 and subsequently British Railways in 1948. Most regular passenger trains plied between and Mansfield Central, with some extending to and . In the station's early years some services plied between Mansfield Central and stations between and . Timetabled services ceased on 3 January 1956, though Summer weekend excursion traffic to Scarborough, Cleethorpes, Skegness and Mablethorpe continued until 8 September 1962. 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.

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External links

Mansfield Central railway station on navigable 1947 O.S. Map
''npe Maps''
Station, line and mileages
(archived) at ''Railway Codes''
Image of the old station
at

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