This one was built by the Midland Railway in around 1871. It
still stands in the grounds of the old station house, which is now a private
residence. Kirklington and Edingley station was on the Mansfield to Southwell
line, which closed to passengers in 1929 and to freight in 1964. The shed is on
the approach road to the station building and the former goods yard.
The old goods yard site is now used as a car park and picnic
area on the Southwell Trail. This is now a peaceful place to watch and listen
to birds, though the turtle doves that were annual visitors here are no longer
in evidence, nor the cuckoos. A concrete framed loading gauge still stands on
what would presumably have been the siding leading into the yard.
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