page_title: Awsworth
section_title: Railways
hierarchical_section_title: Awsworth / Railways
caption_attribution_description: English: Author: Tina Cordon, Source: Own Picture, Tina Cordon 16:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
context_page_description: Awsworth is a village and civil parish in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England. Its population of 2,266 in the 2001 census eased to 2,204 at the 2011 Census. The village is near the edge of the Greater Nottingham area, between Kimberley and Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It has been a civil parish since 1894.
context_section_description: Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby, crossing the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct. This closed in September 1964. At Awsworth Junction, a short distance to the east, a branch line curved north to Pinxton. This line closed in January 1963. Near the junction it crossed a viaduct almost half a mile in length across the Giltbrook valley, known variously as Awsworth Viaduct, Giltbrook Viaduct, Kimberley Viaduct, but commonly among locals as the "Forty Bridges", although the combined number of arches and girder spans was 43. This viaduct has been demolished, but the Bennerley Viaduct remains.
caption: These old colliery wagons stand on a traffic island marking the entrance to Awsworth
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