Lowdham railway station
railway station in Lowdham, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Lowdham railway station is a Grade II listed railway station, which serves the village of Lowdham, in Nottinghamshire, England.
History
It is a stop on the Nottingham to Lincoln Line, which was engineered by George Stephenson and opened by the Midland Railway on 3 August 1846. The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham; the buildings were probably designed by Thomas Chambers Hine.
The buildings originally comprised a combined station building and station master's house, a weighbridge hut at the entrance to the goods yard, a goods shed and stables for the horses that drew the drays to deliver goods. A waiting room, a porter's room and a lamp hut were on the opposite platform from the station building, with a signal box across the road on that side, next to the level crossing. The signal box was opened on 14 June 1896. This Midland Railway Type 2b box was the oldest on the line when abolished in 2016.
In 1953, the station made national headlines when a train stopped blocking the level crossing for 45 minutes as the engine driver, Fred Jones, and his fireman, David Mews, had "a few words". The driver stopped because he thought there was not enough water in his boiler and he blew the fire out; the fireman thought there was enough pressure in the boiler for them to continue. The driver requested water for the engine and a relief fireman.
“Lowdham railway station” enters the record as railway station in Lowdham, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lowdham, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6693095. Authority coordinates are 53.007, -0.998. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1846, 1896, 2016 and 1953.
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