Bestwood Colliery railway station

Coordinates: 53°01′13″N 1°11′00″W / 53.02037°N 1.18320°W

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Bestwood Colliery
Station building in 1963
General information
Location	Bestwood Village, Gedling England
Grid reference	SK548473
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
2 October 1882^[1]	Opened as Bestwood
March 1883	Renamed Bestwood Colliery
March 1907	Renamed Bestwood
October 1907	Renamed Bestwood Colliery
14 September 1931	Closed to passengers
7 April 1958^[2]	Goods facilities withdrawn

Bestwood Colliery railway station was a former station on the Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Shirebrook line.^[3]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Butler's Hill		London and North Eastern Railway Leen Valley line		Bulwell Forest

References

^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 33.
^ Clinker, C.R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-AngliA Publications & Services. p. 12. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
^ British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer.

53°01′13″N 1°11′00″W / 53.02037°N 1.18320°W / 53.02037; -1.18320

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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 Railway) 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 and Bulwell Railway	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
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Midland Counties Railway	Nottingham Carrington Street Kegworth Hathern
Great Eastern and Great Northern Joint Railway	Park Drain Misterton Walkeringham Beckingham
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