Ruddington railway station

Coordinates: 52°53′43.00″N 1°9′31.00″W / 52.8952778°N 1.1586111°W / 52.8952778; -1.1586111 Ruddington is a disused railway station on the Great Central Main Line south of Nottingham. The line had branches that ran to the now decommissioned Ruddington Depot.

It was originally a standard GCR country island type station, like those surviving at Quorn and Woodhouse and Rothley, accessed from a road overbridge. The station buildings have been demolished though the island platform still survives. Just south of the station is where the northern end of the northern preserved section of the GCRH starts. The station opened 5 March 1899 and closed to passengers on 4 March 1963 but trains continued to pass through until closure of the line on 3 May 1969.

The Great Central Railway (Nottingham) have opened a station at Ruddington Fields on the site of the Ministry of Defence Depot and plan to purchase the station, restore it and extend the current preserved Great Central line to a proposed railway station to interchange with the Nottingham Express Transit System.

References

    Preceding station Disused railways Following station
    Rushcliffe Halt
    Line and station closed
      Great Central Railway
    London Extension
      Nottingham Arkwright Street
    Line and station closed


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