Mansfield Woodhouse station serves a village/suburb to the north of Mansfield. I visited on a grey day with the intent of mopping up a bit more of the Robin Hood Line (which was reopened in the mid-1990s after an attack of the Beechings).
The station approach is from a largish car park:
The entrance to the station:
The entrance gives onto platform 1, for trains towards Worksop:
Platform 1 and its shelter seen from the footbridge:
Looking south along the line from the end of platform 1:
A footbridge joins platform 1 to the other through platform, platform 2, and to the bay platform 3:
On the footbridge, looking south along the line with platform 1 on the right:
Looking north from the footbridge, with platform 2 on the right and platform 3 leading into the engine shed:
The zig-zag ramp from the footbridge down to platform 2:
On platform 2 looking south towards the footbridge:
Looking north on platform 3 towards the buffers. Beyond the end of the island platform is a secondary entrance to the station:
At the end of platform 2 looking north along the line:
On platform 3 looking south:
Inside the covered engine shed:
This plaque on the shed wall marks the station's opening:
Looking at the shed wall and roof:
With the footbridge to our right, we look south at the end of platform 3:
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