Lowdham railway station


Lowdham railway station is a Grade II listed railway station which serves the village of Lowdham in Nottinghamshire, England.

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. The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham The buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.
The buildings originally comprised a station building and station master's house combined, a weighbridge hut at the entrance to the goods yard, a goods shed and stables for the horses the drays that delivered the goods around the village. On the opposite side of the railway, there was a waiting room, a porter's room and a Lamp hut all on the platform, and across the road, a signal box. The level crossing adjacent to the station is still in operation, but the main building passed into private ownership in 1990. In September 2016, the line was re-signalled by Network Rail, making the signal boxes at Lowdham, Morton, Fiskerton and Staythorpe redundant. The station building has since been extensively renovated by the owners, and many original features restored.
In 2017, Network Rail extended the Nottingham-bound platform to compensate for the reduction in usable platform caused by the positioning of one of the new signals.

Services

East Midlands Railway serve this station with trains between and via Nottingham. Trains call hourly each way throughout the day. These mostly run between Newark Castle and Matlock via, but some Lincoln to Nottingham and trains also call at peak times and in the evenings. On Sundays, trains now run hourly all day rather than from mid-afternoon onwards as they did prior to the May 2017 timetable change; these run between Lincoln and Nottingham only.
East Midlands Railway also run a single train from London St Pancras International to Lincoln via Nottingham and the Midland Main Line Monday to Saturday.

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