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Fiskerton railway station

Fiskerton railway station is a stop on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line and serves the village of Fiskerton in Nottinghamshire, England; it is located 3 mi (4.8 km) south-east of the small market town of Southwell.

Fiskerton
National Rail
General information
LocationFiskerton, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire
England
Grid referenceSK729520
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeFSK
ClassificationDfT category F2
Passengers
2018/19Increase 37,102
2019/20Decrease 36,708
2020/21Decrease 4,284
2021/22Increase 16,198
2022/23Increase 21,274
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

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The station opened on 4 August 1846 by the Midland Railway.[1] It was taken over by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and subsequently by British Rail 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.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4] The curve closed on 1 March 1965 and the railway junction was abolished.

Signalling on the line was upgraded in 2016, when the manual signal boxes were decommissioned and control transferred to the East Midlands Integrated Electronic Control Centre at Derby.[5]

In 2017, Network Rail announced that the platforms would be extended to cater for longer trains;[6] it announced a plan in 2020 to relocate the signal box to the Vale of Berkeley Railway in Gloucestershire.[7]

Stationmasters

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  • Thomas Marston 1851
  • H. Briggs until 1860[8]
  • John Pick 1861 - 1864[8] (afterwards station master at Beeston)
  • S Cobb from 1864[8]
  • Joseph Monney (or Minney) ca. 1870 until 1873[9]
  • Henry Hawkins 1873[9]
  • J. Blackwell 1873 - 1877[9] (formerly station master at Tonge and Breedon)
  • W. Booth 1875 - 1877[9] (called upon to resign)
  • Thomas Braddock 1877 - 1879[10]
  • Edward Presgrave 1879 – 1883[10] (afterwards station master at Barrow upon Soar)
  • G. Butler 1883 - 1888[11]
  • William Tunn 1888 - 1890 (formerly station master at Kirkby Stephen, afterwards station master at Kirkby in Ashfield)[12]
  • William Henry Higginson 1890[11] – ca. 1914
  • G. Jay 1915 – 1925[13] (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[14] (formerly stationmaster at Widmerpool)
  • A. Newcombe ca. 1951 ca. 1955

Facilities

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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 guard on the train at no extra cost as there are no retail facilities at this station.[15]

Services

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East Midlands Railway operate all services at Fiskerton using Class 158 and 170 DMUs.[16]

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[17][18]

The station is also served by a small number of trains between Leicester, Nottingham, Lincoln and Grimsby Town; there is one train per day to and from London St Pancras International, 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.

Preceding station   National Rail Following station
East Midlands Railway
Disused railways
TerminusMidland Railway
Line and station closed
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References

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  1. ^ "Opening of the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway". Lincolnshire Chronicle. England. 7 August 1846. Retrieved 2 March 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Fiskerton Station Ground Frame" (PDF). Inter City Railway Society. 44 (518): 33. February 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  3. ^ "New Notts Line". Nottingham Journal. England. 6 February 1929. Retrieved 31 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Hinson, John. "Fiskerton Junction". The Signal Box. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  5. ^ Parker, Sam (14 February 2016). "Save our Signal Box". Newark Advertiser. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  6. ^ Ashe, Isaac (31 January 2017). "Upgrade planned to two Nottinghamshire stations which are too short for some trains". Nottingham Evening Post. Retrieved 31 January 2017.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Thompson, Connor (6 May 2020). "Network Rail plan to move Morton signal box to Vale of Berkeley Railway should Newark and Sherwood District Council approve". Newark Advertiser. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  8. ^ a b c "1859–1866". Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts: 130. 1866. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  9. ^ a b c d "1871–1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 393. 1871. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Midland Railway". 1871–1879: 855. Retrieved 31 January 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ a b "Midland Railway". 1881–1898: 498. Retrieved 31 January 2021. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ "Death of the Kirkby-in-Ashfield Station-Master". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 21 November 1895. Retrieved 31 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  13. ^ "Fiskerton". Newark Herald. England. 28 November 1925. Retrieved 9 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  14. ^ "Local Jottings". Nottingham Evening Post. England. 14 March 1947. Retrieved 31 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  15. ^ "Fiskerton station information". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  16. ^ "EMR Regional Fleet". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  17. ^ Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2020
  18. ^ "May 2021 Timetable Changes – Fiskerton". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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