Mansfield Railway

The Mansfield Railway was an English railway company authorized by the Mansfield Railway Act of 26 July 1910 at the promotion of the Duke of Portland, who owned coal-bearing estates around Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and wanted rail access to the area's collieries. Its eleven-mile line connected junctions at Clipstone and Kirkby-in-Ashfield on the Great Central Railway, which worked the line after it opened in 1916; passenger service began in 1917 with three daily trains, growing to fourteen by 1939, alongside coal traffic and goods such as fish from Grimsby and steel from Scunthorpe. The company was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in the 1923 grouping; passenger service ended in 1956, the goods line south of Crown Farm closed in 1968, and the last operating segment closed in 2003 when Clipstone Colliery shut down.