Bulwell Common railway station

Bulwell Common
Bulwell Common station in July 1963, four months after closure and already the platform edging slabs have been removed.
Location
Place	Bulwell
Area	City of Nottingham
Operations
Original company	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
15 March 1899^[1]	Opened
4 March 1963	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Bulwell Common railway station was a former station in Nottingham on the Great Central Railway main line,^[2] the last main line to be built from the north of England to London. The station opened with the line on 15 March 1899.

History

The station was the fourth to serve the northern Nottingham suburb of Bulwell, directly or indirectly, following the Midland Railway (later LMS) station later known as Bulwell Market on their line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop, the Great Northern Railway (later LNER) station called Bulwell Forest on their own route up the Leen Valley and on up to Shirebrook, and that same company's Basford and Bulwell station (later renamed Basford North), on their Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension to Ilkeston, Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford. The choice of Bulwell Common as the name for the Great Central station is something of a puzzle, as Nottingham City Council have no record of any common land ever having been designated in the Bulwell area.

The station was one of the standard island platform design typical of the London Extension, and here it was the more common "cutting" type reached from a roadway (St. Albans Road), that crossed over the line. Just to the south, a west-to-north connecting curve from the GNR's Basford and Bulwell station joined the GCR at Bulwell South Junction, while to the north, a connecting spur to the GNR's Leen Valley line branched off north-eastwards at Bulwell North Junction; further north still was the lengthy Bulwell Viaduct which crossed over the Midland line and spanned the Leen Valley, while a short distance to the north of this was a fifth station to bear the name Bulwell - the relatively short-lived Bulwell Hall Halt.

Bulwell Common station was closed to passengers and goods on 4 March 1963, the line itself on 5 September 1966 to passengers and completely on 25 March 1968. Where the station once stood is now a housing development, but the stationmaster's house remains.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
New Basford Line and station closed		Great Central Railway London Extension		Bulwell Hall Halt Line and station closed

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 48.
↑ British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer.

Coordinates: 53°00′02″N 1°11′06″W / 53.00043°N 1.18489°W / 53.00043; -1.18489

Closed railway stations in Nottinghamshire

Mansfield Railway	Mansfield Central Sutton-in-Ashfield Central Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central Pinxton North

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway	Warsop Clipstone Edwinstowe Ollerton Boughton (Nottinghamshire) Tuxford Central Dukeries Junction Fledborough Clifton-on-Trent Doddington and Harby

GCR Main Line	Hollinwell and Annesley Annesley South Junction Halt Hucknall Central Bulwell Hall Halt Bulwell Common New Basford Carrington Nottingham Victoria Nottingham Arkwright Street Ruddington Rushcliffe Halt East Leake

Leen Valley Extension	Skegby Sutton-in-Ashfield Town Newstead and Annesley Linby (Great Northern) Hucknall Town Butler's Hill Bestwood Colliery Bulwell Forest

GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension	Pinxton South Pye Hill and Somercotes Codnor Park and Selston Newthorpe, Greasley and Shipley Gate Awsworth Kimberley East Basford North Daybrook Gedling and Carlton

Worksop to Nottingham Line	Sutton Junction Mansfield Town Kirkby-in-Ashfield East Annesley Linby Hucknall Byron Bulwell Market Basford Vernon Radford Lenton

Nottingham Suburban Railway	Sherwood St Ann's Well Thorneywood

Mansfield to Rolleston Junction	Blidworth and Rainworth Farnsfield Kirklington and Edingley Southwell

Bennerley Junction to Basford	Kimberley West Watnall

Nottingham and Melton Railway	Edwalton Plumtree Widmerpool Upper Broughton

Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway	Bingham Road (Notts) Barnstone Redmile Cotham

Great Northern Main Line	Scrooby Ranskill Barnby Moor and Sutton Tuxford North Crow Park Carlton-on-Trent

Midland Counties Railway	Nottingham Carrington Street Kegworth Hathern

Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint Railway	Park Drain Misterton Walkeringham Beckingham

Other	Checker House Cottam Kirkby Bentinck Nottingham London Road Nottingham Racecourse Teversall Manor Trowell Whiteborough

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