Radcliffe railway station explained

Radcliffe
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Radcliffe-on-Trent, Rushcliffe
Country:England
Coordinates:52.9488°N -1.037°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:East Midlands Railway
Platforms:2
Code:RDF
Classification:DfT category F1
Opened:15 July 1850[1]
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Radcliffe railway station (also known as Radcliffe-on-Trent[2] and Radcliffe (Notts)[3]) serves the village of Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the Nottingham to Grantham Line, 5miles east of Nottingham. Services run to Nottingham, Grantham, Boston and Skegness.

History

It is located on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850 and taken over by the Great Northern Railway[4]

The station itself was opened by the Great Northern Railway. The station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway opened in 1879 from Saxondale Junction, a few miles east of the station. The London and North Western Railway then provided a Nottingham to Northampton service which ceased in 1953.

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel-multiple unit trains.[5]

The station was renamed from Radcliffe on Trent to Radcliffe on 6 May 1974.[6]

Services

As of December 2010 there are five trains each day to and four to, with a single late evening service terminating at .[7] All services are provided by East Midlands Railway, usually using or Class170 units. Express services between and call at the station once a day towards Liverpool, and also call here on 1 Sunday train to Norwich.

Notes and References

  1. News: . Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway . Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties . England . 12 July 1850 . 29 June 2017 . British Newspaper Archive . subscription .
  2. Web site: Station Facilities for Radcliffe-on-Trent . National Rail Enquiries . 21 January 2012 .
  3. Web site: Table 19 Skegness - Grantham and Nottingham . National Rail Timetable . Network Rail . Milton Keynes . December 2011 . 21 January 2012 .
  4. Kingscott, G., (2004) Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books
  5. News: . Train Service Alterations from Monday . Grantham Journal . England . 4 January 1963 . 18 December 2021 . British Newspaper Archive . subscription .
  6. J.N. . Slater . July 1974 . Notes and News: Stations renamed by LMR . . 120 . 879 . IPC Transport Press Ltd . London . 0033-8923 . 363 .
  7. Web site: Table 19. National Rail Timetable. December 2010.