page_title: Nottingham Suburban Railway
section_title: Opening and early traffic
hierarchical_section_title: Nottingham Suburban Railway / Opening and early traffic
caption_attribution_description: Sherwood railway station
context_page_description: The Nottingham Suburban Railway was a British railway company that constructed a line 3.65 miles in length serving the north-eastern suburbs of Nottingham. It was built to shorten the distance by train to Ilkeston and towns on the Leen Valley railway line, and to connect important brickworks near Nottingham. The short line was expensive to build due to difficult topography; it opened in August 1889, and was worked by the Great Northern Railway; the trains used that company's Nottingham terminus.
  The line was soon by-passed by another route to the Leen Valley, and electric street-running trams abstracted most of the local passenger business. Passenger stations on the line closed in 1916, and it closed completely in 1954.
context_section_description: The construction was complete in November 1889. Major General Hutchinson of the Board of Trade inspected the line on 22 November 1889 and was satisfied, and the line opened for ordinary traffic on 2 December 1889. The first train was delayed when the contractor's agent stopped it by standing on the line showing a red flag at Trent Lane Junction; the contractor Edwards claimed he was still in possession of the line, not having been paid fully, although the company had obtained an injunction forbidding this interference. After some discussion the train continued its journey.
  From January 1890 there were ten passenger trains each northbound and nine southbound over the line, some of which worked to and from Newstead, the passenger extremity of the Leen Valley line at the time. The trains used the GNR London Road station at Nottingham. There was a Sunday service of four trains each way until 31 December 1889.
caption: Sherwood railway station
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