Blidworth and Rainworth railway station
# Blidworth and Rainworth railway station

Blidworth and Rainworth railway station was a railway station which served the villages of Blidworth and Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, England.

## History

The station opened in 1871 as Rainworth when the Midland Railway opened a line from Southwell to Mansfield.

It was renamed Blidworth on 24 March 1877.

The station closed to passengers on 12 August 1929 when the Mansfield to Southwell section, which passed through a mining area, closed to passengers. The railway replaced it with a road motor omnibus service provided in conjunction with Mansfield and District Tramways Limited connecting with the railway stations between Mansfield and Newark. Freight services continued until 25 June 1964.

Nothing remains of the station or trackbed and it has been lost to a housing development called Curzon Close.

## Services

* Timetable from the Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald Saturday 12 August 1871 showing the station named as Rainworth
* Timetable from Mansfield Reporter, 29 November 1878 showing the station named as Blidworth

## Stationmasters

* A. Nowell 1872 - 1875 (formerly station master at Worthington)
* E. Prisgrane 1875 - 1879
* G. Lambert 1879 - 1884
* W. Doughty 1884 - 1908
* Charles Walter Chapple 1908 - 1929

| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station |
| - | - | - |
| Farnsfield Line and station closed | Midland Railway Rolleston Junction to Mansfield | Sutton Junction Line closed, station closed |
