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Widmerpool railway station

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The station's Up platform remains in existence, as does the Down platform waiting room although the platform itself was removed during electrification work in 2000. The main station building was converted into a pub and restaurant c1966 before the line closed. It was originally called the Schooner
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Inn and later the Pullman Inn. Following closure of the business, Network Rail purchased the building and surrounding land in order to secure access to the test track infrastructure. The building was unused from 2016 to 2022.
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Local traffic was always minimal, a situation not helped by the station being situated one and a half miles from the village of its name, and it closed to passengers as early as 1949.
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The timber goods shed survived until electrification in 2000. Just to the north of the station site lies Stanton Tunnel,1,330 yards (1,220 m) long.
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Harold Crompton 1937 - 1939 (also station master at Upper Broughton, afterwards station master at Ipstones, Bradnop and Winkhill)
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George Edward Cramp 1903 - 1916 (formerly station master at Hykeham, afterwards district station master in Nigeria)
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and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham. It also improved access to and from the iron-ore fields in
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Samuel Oughton 1893 - 1895 (formerly station master at Edwalton, afterwards station master at Whitwell)
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Following the closure of the line as a through-route in 1968, the track between Melton Mowbray and
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were being handled at this station in 1956: G, P†, F, L, H, C and there was a 1-ton 10 cwt crane.
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The station was opened for goods (1 Nov 1879) & passengers (2 February 1880) by the
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Frank W.E. Clarke 1945 - 1947 (afterwards station master at Rolleston Junction)
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William Henry Higginson 1888 - 1890 (afterwards station master at Fiskerton)
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units. It was also used for testing London Underground 'S Stock' trains.
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William H. Turner 1890 - 1893 (afterwards station master at Carlton)
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G. Lamberts 1884 - 1888 (afterwards station master at Whitacre)
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E.J. Bloor 1947 (formerly station master at Westhouses)
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Index


Widmerpool
Rushcliffe
Midland Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
railway station
Widmerpool
English
Nottinghamshire
Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway
Corby
Midland Railway
Midland Railway
John Holloway Sanders
Melton Mowbray
Nottingham
London
Leicestershire
Rutland
Official Handbook of Stations
classes of traffic
Plumtree
Midland Railway
Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway
Upper Broughton
Edwalton
Old Dalby Test Track
Advanced Passenger Train
Class 390 Pendolino

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