Newstead railway station

Newstead railway station serves the village of Newstead in Nottinghamshire, England.

This article is about the railway station in England. For other uses, see Newstead railway station (disambiguation).

Newstead
Location
PlaceNewstead
Local authorityGedling
Coordinates53.0700°N 1.2219°W / 53.0700; -1.2219
Grid referenceSK522528
Operations
Station codeNSD
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Number of platforms1
DfT categoryF1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 33,938
2015/16 31,932
2016/17 35,868
2017/18 41,802
2018/19 40,288
History
Key datesOpened May 1993 (May 1993)
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newstead from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Newstead was the original terminus of the Robin Hood Line when it was reopened in 1993 by British Rail under the Regional Railways sector. The line has since been extended to Mansfield and Worksop. A former station Annesley railway station just to the north did not reopen.

Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron is about two to three miles away and is served by this station.

Services

From Monday through to Saturday there is normally an hourly service in both directions to Worksop & Nottingham (with extra calls at weekday peak times). On Sundays, the service runs roughly every 2 hours and all northbound trains terminate at Mansfield Woodhouse[1]

There is also one daily service on Mondays to Fridays from Mansfield Woodhouse extended through to Peterborough to Norwich, however there is no return working.

References
  1. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 55

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