Disused railway lines and closed stations in Nottinghamshire

221 miles of disused railway
86 closed stations
29 stations open today
67 named lost lines

Nottinghamshire has 221 miles of disused railway and 86 closed stations, against 29 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Mansfield Line, with 14 miles of its route inside Nottinghamshire.

See Nottinghamshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 221 miles of lost railway in Nottinghamshire break down as 137 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 61 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 19 miles with track still in place but no trains and 3.5 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Nottinghamshire

67 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Nottinghamshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Mansfield Line	14
Derbyshire Extension Branch	10
Torksey Branch	8.8
Marylebone to Claydon L&NE Junction	8.5
Pinxton Branch	7.5
Mid Notts Joint Line	6.4
Rufford Colliery Branch	6.4
Bingham Branch	6.2
Chesterfield to Lincoln Line	5.8
Bennerley to Bulwell Line	5.2
Leen Valley Railway	5.2
Bestwood Park to Calverton Colliery Branch	5.0
Welbeck Colliery Branch	4.9
Bevercotes Branch	4.8
Cottam Power Station Loop	4.4
Great Central Railway	4.3
Clipstone Branch	4.2
Nottingham Suburban Railway	4.0
Barber Walker Line	3.8
Firbeck Colliery Branch	3.6
Rufford Junction to Bilsthorpe Colliery Branch	3.4
Misson Branch	3.4
Kettering North Junction and Melton Mowbray Line	3.3
Bottesford to Newark Line	3.2
High Marnham Branch	3.0
Beighton to Annesley Branch	2.6
Bentinck Colliery Lines	2.6
Cotgrave Colliery Branch	2.4
Gotham Branch	2.4
Harworth Colliery Branch	2.1
Mansfield Colliery Branch	2.0
Nottingham High Level Line	2.0
Racecourse Road	1.9
Watnall Colliery Branch	1.7
Selston Colliery	1.7
Leen Valley Extension	1.4
Bestwood Colliery Branch	1.3
Calverton Colliery	1.3
Selston Collieries	1.3
Babington Branch	1.2

And 27 shorter stretches: Warsop Colliery, Teversal Branch, Blidworth Colliery Branch, Langton Colliery Branch, New Hucknall Branch, Brierley Branch, Teversal Trail, Ollerton Loaded Sidings, Netherfield Junction to Colwick Fork, Bilsthorpe Branch, Tuxford Chord, Mapperley Tunnel, Sutton Colliery Branch, Sutton in Ashfield Branch, Warsop Junction Sidings, Kirkby North Curve, Ollerton Colliery Branch, Skegby Trail, Broxtowe Colliery, Mansfield Way, Thoresby Colliery Branch, Tibshelf to Silverhill Colliery Branch, Clipstone Colliery Branch, High Marnham Power Station, Pye Bridge to Shirebrook Line, Brinsley Branch and Cinder Hill Line.

Closed railway stations in Nottinghamshire

All 86 closed and former stations in Nottinghamshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Nottinghamshire

29 stations in Nottinghamshire still have a train service. The busiest are Nottingham (8.1 million a year), Newark Northgate (1.1 million a year), Newark Castle (618,574 a year), Beeston (606,570 a year) and Retford (602,590 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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