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Mansfield and Pinxton Railway

British companies disestablished in 1847British companies established in 1817Early British railway companiesGrade II listed buildings in NottinghamshireHistory of Nottinghamshire
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The Pinxton to Mansfield viaduct near Kings Mill
The Pinxton to Mansfield viaduct near Kings Mill

The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway in the United Kingdom. It was completed in 1819, to make a transport link between Mansfield and the Cromford Canal at Pinxton. An important traffic was coal inward to Mansfield, as coal deposits near there were too deep to be extracted economically at the time; minerals, malt and other manufactures were exported from Mansfield. Collieries along the line of route were developed as time went on. From 1847 the Midland Railway developed a railway network in the locality of Mansfield, and purchased the M&PR, converting it to be suitable for locomotive use and incorporating it in its own network. In the second half of the twentieth century, passenger and ordinary goods business in the Mansfield area declined substantially, leaving only a limited coal traffic via Codnor Park from 1970. The passenger service from Nottingham to Mansfield was revived under the marketing title The Robin Hood Line, opening to Mansfield in 1995, using the section of the original M&PR, as modified by the Midland Railway, from Kirkby to Mansfield. The mineral traffic flow from Codnor Park continues.

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Mansfield and Pinxton Railway
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The Pinxton to Mansfield viaduct near Kings Mill
The Pinxton to Mansfield viaduct near Kings Mill
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