Warsop
General information
Location	Market Warsop,Mansfield England
Coordinates	53°11′55.41″N1°9′33.5″W / 53.1987250°N 1.159306°W /53.1987250; -1.159306
Grid reference	SK 562 671
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	LD&ECR
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways
Key dates
8 March 1897	Opened
19 September 1955	Closed to regular traffic
4 January 1965	Closed for freight
After August 1976	Closed completely[1]
Location

v t e Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway
Legend
Chesterfield (Market Place) Boythorpe Viaduct over MR Brampton Branch and Boythorpe Railway   Horns Bridge over Midland Main Line GCR Chesterfield Loop River Rother Duckmanton Tunnel Great Central Main Line Arkwright Town Arkwright Town Jct (1907) River Doe Lea Doe Lea Viaduct over MRDoe Lea Branch Bolsover South Bolsover Tunnel Scarcliffe Summit MML toSt Pancras Sheffield Midland Attercliffe Road(MR) Rotherham Masborough West Tinsley (SDR) Catcliffe (SDR) Rotherham Masborough Treeton(MR) Woodhouse Mill(MR) Beighton(GCR) Beighton Junction Killamarsh West(MR) Beighton(GCR) Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Spinkhill Tunnel Clowne South Summit Markland Grips Viaduct Creswell and Welbeck Shirebrook North (Originally Langwith Junction) Langwith Junction shed Shirebrook South GNR toNottingham Victoria (1901) Shirebrook West MR (nowRobin Hood Line) Nottingham Midland toWorksop Warsop Clipstone Colliery Sidings Mansfield Railway toNottingham Victoria (from 1917) Edwinstowe Ollerton Boughton Tuxford Central Tuxford Works Rail Innovation & Development Centre | Tuxford shed Dukeries Junction GNR(now ECML) Kings Cross toRetford High Marnham Power Station Fledborough Fledborough Viaduct overRiver Trent Clifton-on-Trent Doddington and Harby Skellingthorpe GN&GEJR toSaxilby Pyewipe Junction Lincoln to Peterborough

Warsop railway station is a formerrailway station inMarket Warsop,Nottinghamshire, England.

The station was opened by theLancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway in March 1897 and closed byBritish Railways in 1955. The station building made use of the LD&ECR's standard modular architecture.^[2][3][4][5]

After leavingShirebrook North station, the line crossed theMidland Nottingham to Worksop line (since 1998 theRobin Hood Line) and passed the LD&ECR Warsop yard near Warsop Junction. This yard is used byDB Cargo UK. To the north was a branch to Warsop Main colliery with extensive marshalling yards, now closed.^[6][7]

Shortly after this, in the days before the deep mines penetrating the limestone cap were sunk, the newly built line ran into countryside, crossedWarsop Vale on an embankment, and arrived at Warsop station.^[8]

Between Warsop andEdwinstowe the line climbed from the valley of theRiver Meden, heading for that of theRiver Maun. This was the beginning of the area known asThe Dukeries, heavily promoted in the railway's literature in the hope of attracting tourist trade.

It passed by Warsop Windmill, where the GCR was later to provide a branch to Welbeck Colliery before reaching Clipstone, where it had been planned to build a branch toMansfield. Instead it had built a curve into theMidland Railway line mentioned above. Sidings, however, were provided for theDuke of Portland. Further on into the Maun valley the GCR did build a junction forMansfield Central, initially facingLincoln, but then converted to a triangular one. Latterly this extended only to a group of collieries, all now closed.

There never was a Sunday service calling at Warsop.

In 1922 the advertised services were:

Eastbound

• 1 train to Nottingham Victoria via Mansfield Central
• 4 trains to Mansfield Central, with two extra on Saturdays
• 2 trains to Lincoln High Street (later renamed Lincoln Central, now plain Lincoln), with an extra on Friday, Lincoln's Market Day

Westbound

• 4 trains to Chesterfield Market Place, with two extra on Saturdays
• 1 to Langwith Junction (later renamed Shirebrook North) on Fridays
• 1 to Langwith Junction (later renamed Shirebrook North) on Saturdays

Passengers aiming for Mansfield on Saturday evenings could catch the 22:44, non-stop Eastbound to Mansfield Central or wait for the 23:38 westbound to Langwith Junction which doubled back down what is now theRobin Hood Line to the Midland station atMansfield, arriving at Midnight.^[9]

The position in August 1939 was not greatly changed, though the late train to Mansfield Central had disappeared.^[10]

By the Summer of 1964 all regular timetabled local services had been gone for nine years, but it was still possible to catch a train to Mablethorpe or Skegness, or even toRadford via the Warsop to Shirebrook Junction curve, but it would be the following Saturday before a direct train back.^[11][12]

The line through the station site gives access from Shirebrook toUK Coal's Thoresby Colliery and to theHigh Marnham Test Track.

Since the closure of Thoresby Colliery, the traffic on the line has rapidly decreased and the line only has the High Marnham Test Track trains running every few months.

There is some hope of reopening the line as a branch off theRobin Hood Line and reopening Warsop,Edwinstowe andOllerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham.^[13][14]

• The station on navigable multi-layered mapsNational Library of Scotland
• The station on navigable 1940s OS mapnpe Maps
• The station, line and mileagesRailway Codes
• Warsop Main Colliery 1Warsop Vale
• Warsop Main Colliery 2Warsop Vale

• Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire
• Former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1897
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955

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