Worksop

The track plan used is for 1997.

The station was designed by Weightman & Hadfield of Sheffield in the Jacobean style, and built by James Drabble of Carlton in Lindrick. It was opened on 7 July 1849 by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway, part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. It was extended and further buildings added in 1900.

It is today an intermediate stop on the regional service from Lincoln Central to Sheffield, 15.75 miles (25.3 km) from the latter, operated by Northern and the northern terminus of East Midlands Railway's Robin Hood Line from Nottingham and Mansfield (the section from the latter town was re-opened to passengers on 25 May 1998, after originally losing them to the Beeching Axe in October 1964). The station buildings on each side are still in use - operator Northern runs the booking office on platform 1, Network Rail has office accommodation on platform 1 and the remaining rooms are utilised as private commercial premises, and the Mellard pub. Platform 2 houses the Railway Cafe.

Worksop Power signal box (PSB), which was opened in 1998, is located at the western end of the station on the Retford-bound platform, and there are a number of goods loops and sidings close by that are used for stabling and reversing/recessing coal trains serving the nearby power stations at West Burton and Cottam. Platform 2 has a turnback facility provided, so that terminating trains from the west and south can terminate and start back from there without having to change lines and use the level crossing at the eastern end.

The train service through to Nottingham started in 1998

The CWS Glassworks closed in 2008.

Worksop did not have a steam shed so no diesel depot was built, there was only a stabling point, traincrew depot and a wagon repair shed in the down sidings which opened in 1965. All locos would be sent to Shirebrook depot for fuel and A exams until 1996, when fuel was brought in by road tanker to discharge the fuel directly into the locos, that was when Shirebrook depot closed in September 1996, Worksop closed in October 2015.	

There was a big decline in UK mining from the 1980's after the miners' strike 1984-85 saw a lot of pits closed down, this saw less MGR trains running around the Worksop area.

West Sidings (Up&Dn)
Dn Departure No2          25 Chains
Up Reception No2          25 Chains
Up Reception No1          25 Chains
Dn Departure No1          25 Chains

East Sidings (Up&Dn)
Up Departure              25 Chains
Dn Reception No1          25 Chains
Dn Reception No2          25 Chains

Up Shunt Neck             25 Chains
Shunting Neck             25 Chains
Through Siding            25 Chains
Loco Siding 1             12 Chains
Loco Siding 2             12 Chains

Worksop Platform 1        12 Chains
        Platform 2        12 Chains
        
Shireoaks Platforms        5 Chains

Timing point abbreviations:

W = West Sidings 
E = East Sidings 
G = West Goods Curve 
O = Shireoaks East Jcn


Start up screen photo is of Worksop as of 2019 after being repainted.

Acknowledgements

This simulation was developed by Richard Wade and David Palmer, using PC-Rail development software supplied by John Dennis.

Thanks go to the PC-Rail testing team for all their help.
