Farnsfield Heritage Trail was officially launched at an event in the Village Centre on New Hill on Saturday 4/11/23. It has been created by the Farnsfield Local History Society http://farnsfieldlhs.co.uk and is accompanied by a tastefully produced pocket guide to the village’s most notable historic buildings, all found at various locations along Main Street.
The table top display of photos also included a view of the station house at the junction of Cockett Lane and Station Lane. Opened in 1871 by the Midland Railway, the Mansfield to Southwell route was relatively short-lived. The village’s station closed to passengers as early as 1929. Farnsfield also had a goods depot, visible in the distance on the photograph. Freight trains continued to pass through Farnsfield until 1964 and outbound coal traffic finished in the following year. The goods shed was then used to store pantomime scenery for a time and also suffered a serious fire that removed the roof, before it was transformed into a sizable, modern family house. The station house also became an attractive private dwelling. The photo shows the view eastwards towards Southwell, sometime after track removal had taken place and before the development of the Southwell Trail on the former track bed for recreational purposes. There is an interesting account of the line in the book by Paul Anderson and Jack Cupit, entitled An Illustrated History of Mansfield’s Railways.
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