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Beeston railway station serves the town of Beeston in Nottinghamshire, England.It lies on a spur of the Midland Main Line and is managed by East Midlands Railway.It is situated 3.2 miles (5.1 km) south-west of Nottingham railway station and 750 metres (0.5 mi) south-east of Beeston transport interchange, for local bus services and Nottingham Express Transit trams.
Beeston railway station was 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Leeds Central and was opened by the Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway in 1860. [2] The line opened to traffic in 1857 and Beeston was opened 3 years later.
The railway has plans to add a Beeton station, but as is common with many heritage railways, this sort of project is highly dependent on fundraising. The railway has two ex- Canadian Pacific steam locomotives , the best known being an 1883 Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works 4-4-0 A2m #136, which was used in the 1970s CBC television series The ...
Beeton railway station c. 1910. Beeton was a stop on the Hamilton and North-Western Railway. The railway split just north of the townsite, at a location then known as Allimil, running northeast through Cookstown to Barrie and northwest through Alliston to Collingwood. The line was later taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway, eventually turning ...
The Midland Counties Railway from Nottingham to Derby opened to passenger services on 4 June 1839, along with Beeston station. [33] The route later became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway company and then the London Midland Region of British Railways. Today, the station is served by two train operating companies:
In early 2020 Michael Flynn [5] [6] a businessman who lived locally and was involved in the construction and operation of railways in the UK and around the world, frustrated at what he saw as the amateur and unserious nature of previous campaigns, formed the Beeston and Tarporley Station Reopening Group, [7] [8] with the object of preparing a professional proposal to reopen the station that ...
All three stations were in the flood plain of the River Rother, which repeatedly led to problems. [4] [5] In 1950 these plus the generally poor state of the station building led British Railways to raise platform levels and undertake other remedial works. [6] Beighton station closed for the third and final time on 1 November 1954.
Intermediate stations at Dalmarnock, Bridgeton, Glasgow Central Low Level and Anderston were reopened, and a new station opened at Argyle Street. The Maryhill Line in Glasgow re-opened to stopping trains in 1993, which had ceased in the 1960s. It is a suburban railway line linking central Glasgow (Queen Street station) and Anniesland via Maryhill.