Hillsway Crescent, Mansfield, Notts.

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 19 Nov 2017

The view towards Garth Road. Although houses now occupy the track bed, the railway line that ran beneath this bridge may once have belonged to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSR) Company? The creators of this route, i.e. the Midland Railway Company, opened a line from Nottingham to Kirkby on 2nd October 1848, extending it to Mansfield on 9 October 1849. Although a bill to allow for the line to be extended from Mansfield to Worksop failed in the 1860 session of Parliament, the bill was re-introduced several years later and the Mansfield Railways Act received the Royal Assent on 5 July 1865. Progress was slow and it was not until 1 June 1875 that the line was opened for traffic. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSR) was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railways into four larger companies. The Nottingham-Worksop line, using this route south of Mansfield town centre, was closed 12 October 1964, under the Beeching rationalisation plans.

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