Lowdham railway station

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

Lowdham
Location
PlaceLowdham
Local authorityNewark and Sherwood
Grid referenceSK673459
Operations
Station codeLOW
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 43,870
2015/16 49,272
2016/17 57,236
2017/18 67,298
2018/19 72,494
Listed status
Listed featureLowdham Railway Station, Station Road
Listing gradeGrade II listed
Entry number1370192[1]
Added to list13 May 1986
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lowdham from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

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 buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.

The buildings originally comprised a station building and station master's house combined (pictured), 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 Newark Castle and Matlock via Nottingham. Trains call hourly each way throughout the day (with extras at peak times). These mostly run between Newark Castle and Matlock via Derby, but some Lincoln to Nottingham and Leicester 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.[3][4]

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.

References
  1. Historic England, "Lowdham Railway Station, Station Road (1370192)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 December 2016
  2. "Opening of the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway". Lincolnshire Chronicle. England. 7 August 1846. Retrieved 2 March 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 27
  4. Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2017
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Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Railway
Nottingham-Lincoln Line
Nottingham
East Midlands Railway
Midland Main Line
(limited service)


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