Radcliffe railway station

This article is about station in Radcliffe on Trent. For the Manchester Metrolink station in Bury, see Radcliffe Metrolink station.

Radcliffe railway station (also known as Radcliffe-on-Trent^[2] and Radcliffe (Notts)^[3]) serves the village of Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies on the Nottingham to Grantham Line, 5 miles (8 km) east of Nottingham. Services run to Nottingham, Grantham, Boston and Skegness.

Radcliffe
General information
Location	Radcliffe-on-Trent, Rushcliffe England
Coordinates	52.9488°N 1.0370°W / 52.9488; -1.0370
Grid reference	SK648394
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	RDF
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Opened	15 July 1850[1]
Passengers
2019/20	12,404
2020/21	1,952
2021/22	9,838
2022/23	11,882
2023/24	12,980
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

It is located on the line first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850 and taken over by the Great Northern Railway.^[4]

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 (High Level) and Nottingham (Victoria) were replaced with diesel-multiple unit trains.^[5]

The station was renamed from Radcliffe on Trent to Radcliffe on 6 May 1974.^[6]

Services

Services at Radcliffe are provided by East Midlands Railway, mostly using Class 158 or Class 170 units. In the late 2010 snow, 156413 speeds through the station with a non-stop service.

As of the December 2024 timetable, there are twelve trains each weekday to Nottingham and eight to Skegness, with a further pair of late evening eastbound services terminating at Boston.^[7] All services are provided by East Midlands Railway, usually using Class 158 or Class 170 units. Express services between Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street call at the station once a day towards Liverpool, and also call here on one Sunday train to Norwich. A reduced service operates on Sundays, with six calls in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Netherfield		East Midlands Railway Nottingham to Grantham Line		Bingham
	Disused railways
Netherfield		Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham Nottingham to Newark		Bingham
Netherfield		London and North Western Railway Nottingham to Northampton		Bingham Road