Notes: Although the line opened in 1849 Annesley Station wasn 't opened until 1874 primarily to serve and increasing local populations since the opening of Annesley Colliery in 1865. he colliery was provided with its own private staff platform Annesley Colliery Sidings Platform which opened south of Annesley Station on 1st January 1882.

The main station building was on the up side of the line at the end of a a 1/4 mile long approach road from Annesley village.

Annesley was an early causality losing its passenger and freight service on 6th April 1953 although e private sidings remained open after that date.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NOTTINGHAM - WORKSOP LINE
The Midland Railway opened a line between Nottingham & Kirkby-in-Ashfield on 2nd October 1848 with intermediate stations at Radford, Basford Vernon, Bulwell Market and Hucknall; at a later date, further intermediate stations were added at Linby, Newstead and Annesley, all mining villages. The line was extended to Mansfield on 9th October 1849 with a further intermediate station between Mansfield & Kirkby opening at Sutton-in-Ashfield in 1850

Worksop Station was opened in in 1849 by the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway and was a major intermediate stop on the line between Sheffield, Retford and Lincoln

The Midland proposed a line between Mansfield and Worksop in November 1860 but the Dukes of Newcastle and Portland disagreed on the proposed line and the project was abandoned.

Four years later, the Midland submitted fresh plans for a line further to the west along the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire border. Despite further objections a route was eventually agreed and the Mansfield Railways Act was passed on 5th July 1865. Work commenced on the building of the railway in June, 1870 and on 1st June 1875 the first passenger service commenced

With the opening of the new line, Worksop became a junction with a through service from Nottingham being introduced.

In 1955, British Railways 15-year modernisation programme was announced culminating in the appointment of Dr. Beeching to remedy the problem of increasing losses. One of the early casualties was the Nottingham to Worksop service. The last scheduled passenger train to Nottingham left Worksop at 8.07pm on Saturday, 12th October, 1964 but the line stayed

The 'Robin Hood Line' reopened in stages between 1993-1998. The bulk of the line re-used the former Midland Railway route from Nottingham London Road to Worksop. However, to keep the costs of the re-opening as low as possible existing track was used wherever possible.

From Worksop, the line followed the old Midland route as far as Sutton-in-Ashfield but between Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield, the line was diverted to join the former Great Northern Railway route through the area. This had allowed British Rail to sell land right in the centre of Kirkby-in-Ashfield whilst keeping a route through the town. After crossing the town on the GNR route, the line re-joined the old MR route, where it remained as a freight line to Pye Bridge, near Ironville.

When plans for the Robin Hood Line were drawn up, it was decided to stay with the GNR route through Kirkby-in-Ashfield then swing south-east via Kirkby South Junction onto the former Great Central Railway main line from Manchester to London. After briefly following the GCR, the line then climbed to re-join the Midland route to Nottingham, to allow reconnection at Newstead.

The new line from Nottingham to Newstead opened in 1993, although Bulwell station didn't open until 1994. It was extended to Mansfield Woodhouse in 1995, with Kirkby-in-Ashfield station opening in 1996. The through passenger route from Nottingham to Worksop opened in 1998.

Since then the section between Bulwell and Hucknall has been converted from double track to single track to allow space for the new Nottingham Express Transit tramway, which follows the route as far north as Hucknall. The tramway opened in March 2004. Most of the intermediate stations between Nottingham

and Worksop were reopened with the exception of Linby and Annesley both of which served adjacent collieries. Linby Colliery closed in 1988 and although Annesley Colliery remained open until 2000, Newstead Station was close by and it was unnecessary to reopen both stations.

See also Annesley Colliery