Thurgarton railway station

Thurgarton railway station is a Grade II listed[1] station which serves the village of Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, England.

Thurgarton
LocationThurgarton, Newark and Sherwood
England
Grid referenceSK697484
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeTHU
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened3 August 1846
Passengers
2015/16 1,506
2016/17 2,470
2017/18 2,156
2018/19 3,462
2019/20 4,338
Listed Building – Grade II
FeatureThurgarton Railway Station. Principal Passenger Buildings
Designated21 November 1974
Reference no.1179030[1]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

It is on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, which was engineered by George Stephenson and opened by the Midland Railway on 3 August 1846.[2] The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham;[2] the station buildings are in the neo-tudor style[3] and were probably designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

At the station much of the original décor remains apart from the electric barriers added later.

Stationmasters
  • J. Howitt 1860 - 1865
  • C. Brown 1865 - 1866
  • John Kind 1866 - 1898[4]
  • Job Frederick Fisher 1898 - 1921 (formerly station master at Bleasby)
  • Sidney Richard Holden ca. 1924 - 1932 (afterwards station master at Ullesthorpe)[5]
  • J.F. Georgeson from 1937[6] (also station master at Lowdham)
  • H. Simpson ca. 1950

Services

The station is now (like most British stations) owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway who provide services to the station on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line.

  • 17 May 2008
  • 17 May 2008
  • 17 May 2008
Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Railway
Nottingham-Lincoln Line

References
  1. Historic England, "Thurgarton Railway Station. Principal Passenger Buildings (1179030)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 4 January 2017
  2. "Opening of the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway". Lincolnshire Chronicle. England. 7 August 1846. Retrieved 2 March 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Williamson, Elizabeth; Hartwell, Clare (2020). The Buildings of England. Nottinghamshire. Yale University Press. p. 663. ISBN 9780300247831.
  4. "From Day to Day". Nottingham Journal. England. 26 August 1898. Retrieved 26 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "Mr. S.R. Holden". Leicester Evening Mail. England. 18 February 1939. Retrieved 26 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "Railway News". Crewe Chronicle. England. 11 September 1937. Retrieved 26 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.


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