The Railway Today
Much of the line still exists, though with the contraction of the coal industry at the end of the twentieth century it sees little traffic. Mansfield station was closed in 1965 but remained standing and was restored as a Grade 2 listed building to serve the Robin Hood Line in 2001.
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