Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station

Kirkby-in-Ashfield
The Steps at Kirkby in Ashfield Station
Location
Place	Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Local authority	Ashfield
Operations
Station code	KKB
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	155,415
2005/06 *	155,102
2006/07 *	149,585
2007/08 *	139,213
2008/09 *	150,980
2009/10 *	177,782
History
Opened November 1996 (November 1996)
National Rail - UK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kirkby-in-Ashfield from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station serves the town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line operated by East Midlands Trains between Nottingham and Worksop .

History

Kirkby-in-Ashfield was served by three railway stations:

• Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central station (closed 1962) was located 700m to the west of the present station on the former Great Central Railway Mansfield Central branch.
• Kirkby-in-Ashfield East station (closed 1965) was 350m to the east of the present station on the former Midland Railway Nottingham to Worksop line.
• Kirkby Bentick station (closed 1963) was located in Bentick Town to the south west of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, on the former Great Central Railway London to Manchester main line.

The closures of these lines left the area with no passenger rail services until the reopening of the former Midand Railway route, now known as the 'Robin Hood Line', in the 1990s. However, by this time British Rail had abandoned the original Midland alignment through Kirkby-in-Ashfield town centre, and the remaining freight trains instead passed through the town by way of a short remnant of yet another line. The town's new station is therefore located on part of the former Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Shirebrook line, which had not previously had a station at this location.

Services

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is generally a half-hourly service from Kirkby-in-Ashfield southbound to Nottingham. There are two trains per hour northbound, one terminating at Mansfield Woodhouse and the other at Worksop. Evenings hourly in each direction and an hourly service in both directions on Sundays. From 12 July the first service in the morning and the last service back on a Sunday will be extended to Skegness, providing the opportunity for a day out in Skegness by rail.

Facilities

The station is located ¼ mile from the centre of town in a cutting around 40 feet below street level. Access to the platforms is via two ramps with a small number of steps so is not recommended for use by wheelchair passengers unless the operator of the chair is very fit.

There are no toilet facilities on this station.

Local Transport Connections

There are regular bus service operating outside the station by Trent Barton to the local area but there is no taxi rank

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  Steps

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  Platform 2

External links

• Train times and station information for Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Newstead		East Midlands Trains Robin Hood Line		Sutton Parkway