History
The town was originally the terminus of the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway, built in 1819. It was bought by the Midland Railway which used the final section to extend its new Leen Valley line to the present station in 1849.
The station building acquired listed building status, but Mansfield remained isolated from the railway system until 1995, when the Robin Hood Line was reopened to Nottingham.
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