Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station

Kirkby-in-Ashfield National Rail

The Steps at Kirkby in Ashfield Station
Location
Place Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Local authority Ashfield
Grid reference SK500561
Operations
Station code KKB
Managed by East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 Decrease 166,156
2011/12 Increase 176,022
2012/13 Decrease 171,856
2013/14 Decrease 147,444
2014/15 Increase 170,916
History
Key dates Opened November 1996 (November 1996)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkby-in-Ashfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station serves the town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line operated by East Midlands Trains between Nottingham and Worksop .

History

Kirkby-in-Ashfield was served by three railway stations:

The closures of these lines left the area with no passenger rail services until the reopening of the former Midland Railway route, now known as the 'Robin Hood Line', in the 1990s. However, by this time British Rail had abandoned the original Midland alignment through Kirkby-in-Ashfield town centre, and the remaining freight trains instead passed through the town by way of a short remnant of yet another line.[1] The town's new station is therefore located on part of the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Shirebrook line, which had not previously had a station at this location.[2]

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is generally a half-hourly service from Kirkby-in-Ashfield southbound to Nottingham. There are two trains per hour northbound, one terminating at Mansfield Woodhouse and the other at Worksop.[3] Evening services run hourly in each direction, whilst on Sundays there is 2-hourly service to Nottingham & Mansfield Woodhouse only (services north of there were withdrawn due to low patronage at the December 2011 timetable change)[4]

There is also one daily service Mondays to Fridays from Mansfield Woodhouse continuing beyond Nottingham through to Norwich, however there is no balancing return train.

Facilities

The station is located ¼ mile from the centre of town in a cutting around 40 feet below street level. Access to the platforms is via two ramps with a small number of steps so is not recommended for use by wheelchair passengers unless the operator of the chair is very fit.

There are no toilet facilities on this station.

Local transport connections

There are regular bus service operating outside the station by Trent Barton to the local area but there is no taxi rank

References

  1. ↑ Anderson, P. Howard (1985). Forgotten Railways. II The East Midlands (2nd ed.). Newton Abbott: David St John Thomas. p. 206. ISBN 0-946537-20-8.
  2. ↑ Sisson, Robin (March 2007). "Return to Robin Hood". Today's Railways UK. Vol. LXIII (March 2007). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. pp. 48–55.
  3. ↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 55 (Network Rail)
  4. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable May 2010 & May 2011 Editions, Table 55
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Coordinates: 53°06′01″N 01°15′11″W / 53.10028°N 1.25306°W / 53.10028; -1.25306

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