Worksop railway station

Worksop
265px Worksop railway station in 2012
Location
Place	Worksop
Local authority	Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	SK585797
Operations
Station code	WRK
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.390 million
2005/06	0.408 million
2006/07	0.426 million
2007/08	0.390 million
2008/09	0.445 million
2009/10	0.461 million
2010/11	0.458 million
2011/12	0.464 million
2012/13	0.450 million
2013/14	0.453 million
History
Key dates	Opened 16 July 1849 (16 July 1849)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Worksop from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Worksop Station in 1957

Worksop railway station serves the town of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, England.

Opened in July 1849 by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, it is today an intermediate stop on the regional service from Lincoln Central to Sheffield operated by Northern Rail and the northern terminus of East Midlands Trains' Robin Hood Line from Nottingham and Mansfield (the section from the latter town was re-opened to passengers on 25 May 1998, after originally losing them to the Beeching Axe in October 1964).

Worksop Power signal box (PSB), which was opened in 1998, is located at the western end of the station on the Retford-bound platform, and there are a number of goods loops and sidings close by that are used for stabling and reversing/recessing coal trains serving the nearby power stations at West Burton and Cottam.

Services

On weekdays there is a basic hourly service on both the Sheffield to Lincoln route and the Robin Hood line to Nottingham. Some additional peak period trains operate between Sheffield and Retford (with a few starting and finishing here in the early morning and late evening) and most services on this line continue through to Meadowhall, Doncaster and Adwick. On Saturdays only there are three trains to and from Cleethorpes via Brigg.

Sundays see two-hourly services to Sheffield & Lincoln. A Sunday service was introduced on the Nottingham (Robin Hood) line in December 2008. However, since May 2011 this service only runs from Nottingham to Mansfield Woodhouse.

External links

• Train times and station information for Worksop railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Shireoaks		Northern Rail Sheffield-Lincoln Line		Retford
Whitwell		East Midlands Trains Robin Hood Line		Terminus