Linby (Great Northern Railway) railway station explained

Linby (Great Northern Railway)
Status:	Disused
Borough:	Linby, Ashfield
Country:	England
Grid Name:	Grid reference
Platforms:	2
Original:	Great Northern Railway
Pregroup:	Great Northern Railway
Postgroup:	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Years:	2 October 1882^[1]
Events:	Opened
Years1:	1 July 1916
Events1:	Closed to passengers
Years2:	3 May 1965
Events2:	goods facilities withdrawn^[2]

Linby (Great Northern Railway) was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway's Nottingham to Shirebrook line.^[3]

Present day

No trace of the station remains.^[4] The site is now a footpath but a possible railway building does survive in private ownership.

Notes and References

1. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford,, p. 124.
2. Book: Clinker, C.R. . Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977 . October 1978 . Avon-AngliA Publications & Services . Bristol . 0-905466-19-5 . 66.
3. British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer.
4. Book: Shannon, Paul . Nottinghamshire (British Railways Past and Present) . 2007 . Past & Present Publishing . Kettering, Northants . 978-1-85895-253-6 . 62.