Langwith-Whaley Thorns railway station

Langwith-Whaley Thorns railway station is in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line 22¼ miles (36 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop.

This article is about the current Robin Hood Line station. For the former Midland Railway station, see Langwith railway station.

Langwith-Whaley Thorns
LocationNether Langwith, Bolsover
England
Grid referenceSK528708
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLAG
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
OpenedMay 1998
Passengers
2015/16 22,292
2016/17 22,152
2017/18 21,454
2018/19 19,354
2019/20 17,946
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

This station serves the villages of Nether Langwith and Whaley Thorns which are both on the boundary of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. It also serves the village of Langwith in Derbyshire.

The Robin Hood Line was opened to reinstate a Nottingham to Worksop service, which ran from 1875 until it was withdrawn in October 1964. After withdrawal the station at Langwith was razed to the ground. When the Robin Hood service was being planned it was decided that, rather than build a new station on the original site in Langwith Maltings, the community would be better served by building the new station about half a mile further North in the larger communities of Nether Langwith and Whaley Thorns. The "old" Langwith station is described at Langwith station (1875-1964).

Services

Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service northbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham. However, from September 2020 the service was replaced every alternate hour with a bus service to improve reliability. A Sunday service of four trains in each direction was introduced in December 2008, but was withdrawn north of Mansfield Woodhouse in May 2011.[1]

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Railway
Robin Hood Line

References
  1. GB eNRT May 2011 & December 2015 Editions, Table 55 (Network Rail)


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