Kirkby-in-Ashfield railway station

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.HistoryKirkby-in-Ashfield was served by three railway stations: Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central station was located 700m to the west of the present station on the former Great Central Railway Mansfield Central branch.Kirkby-in-Ashfield East station was 350m to the east of the present station on the former Midland Railway Nottingham to Worksop line.Kirkby Bentick station 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 Midland 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.