Radcliffe railway station
Radcliffe railway station serves the village of Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the Grantham Line, east of Nottingham. Services run to Nottingham, Grantham, Boston and Skegness.
History
It is located on the line first opened by the Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850 and taken over by the Great Northern Railway.The station itself was opened by the Great Northern Railway. The station buildings were designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.
The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway opened in 1879 from Saxondale Junction, a few miles east of the station. The London and North Western Railway then provided a Nottingham to Northampton service which ceased in 1953.
From 7 January 1963 passenger steam trains between Grantham, Bottesford, Elton and Orston, Aslockton, Bingham, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Netherfield and Colwick, Nottingham London-road and Nottingham were replaced with diesel-multiple unit trains.
The station was renamed from Radcliffe on Trent to Radcliffe on 6 May 1974.