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Aslockton
A Skegness-bound train at Aslockton station
General information
Location	Aslockton, Rushcliffe England
Grid reference	SK705401
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ALK
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	15 July 1850
Original company	Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Passengers
2019/20	33,438
2020/21	3,736
2021/22	15,914
2022/23	23,472
2023/24	23,194
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Aslockton railway station serves the English villages of Aslockton and Whatton-in-the-Vale in Nottinghamshire. It also draws passengers from other nearby villages. It is 10 miles (17 km) east of Nottingham on the Nottingham–Skegness Line.

Passenger services from Aslockton started on 15 July 1850,^[1] when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway opened its extension from Nottingham to Grantham. This was taken over by the Great Northern Railway.^{[2][page needed]} The station building designed by Thomas Chambers Hine was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1857.

On 12 October 1868 a goods train that left Nottingham at 4.15 am split near Aslockton station when one of the coupling chains broke. The driver shunted on to the down line, and while it got back onto the up line, a goods train from Grantham ran into it. The driver of the Grantham train, Smalley Hutchinson, was killed and its fireman severely injured.^[3]

On 31 December 1904, George Skillington, aged 78, was killed on the line at Aslockton by a light engine.^[4]

The station became part of the London and North Eastern Railway under the Grouping of 1923.

On 23 July 1933 an excursion train from Skegness to Nottingham crashed through the level crossing gates at Aslockton.^[5] On 1 August 1937, a nine-year-old boy, Ernest Love of Sneinton, Nottingham, fell from a Nottingham to Mablethorpe excursion train at Aslockton and was killed.^[6]

The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel multiple-unit trains.^[7]

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways. The station is now managed by East Midlands Railway.

There are trains every hour or two hours to Nottingham and to Boston and Skegness via Grantham. There are less frequent trains to destinations such as Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street. On Sundays, there are normally three services – one to Liverpool Lime Street, one to Skegness and one to Norwich.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Bingham		East Midlands Railway Nottingham-Grantham Line		Elton and Orston
	Historical railways
Bottesford Line and station open		Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham		Bottesford Line and station open
Bingham Line and station open		Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Newark		Elton Line and station open

• Listed buildings in Aslockton

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

• Train times and station information for Aslockton railway station from National Rail
• Aslockton Station Master's House
• Train at Aslockton Station^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• PDF with images of signal box and station^{[permanent dead link‍]}

52°57′06″N 0°53′55″W / 52.95167°N 0.89861°W / 52.95167; -0.89861