Daybrook railway station

Daybrook
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Location
Place	Daybrook
Area	Nottingham
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
1 February 1876	Opened as Bestwood and Arnold
1 March 1876	Renamed Daybrook for Arnold and Bestwood
1 August 1876	Renamed Daybrook
4 April 1960	Closed to passengers
1 June 1964	Goods facilities withdrawn
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Daybrook railway station was a railway station in Daybrook, Nottinghamshire. It was opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension in 1875–6 and closed in 1960.

History

It was on the descent from Arno Vale towards Leen Valley Junction where the line from Annesley joined. The line between Gedling and Carlton and Daybrook closed in 1960 because of mining subsidence in Mapperley Tunnel.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bulwell Forest		London and North Eastern Railway Nottingham to Shirebrook		Gedling & Carlton
Basford North		London Midland Region of British Railways (Derby) Friargate Line
Terminus		Great Northern Railway Nottingham Suburban Railway		Sherwood

In popular culture

“Early Sherwood” – a song from the 1970 Philamore Lincoln psychedelic pop album “The North Wind Blew South” – refers to this rail road with the following lines:

“Scrump and scrumpan’ over the lake,
blimp souls wet and the belly ache.
Coins on the line as the train goes by,
Daybrook station fence was high.”

The “Sherwood” in the song’s title refers to the Sherwood railway station.

Present day

No trace of the station remains today and residential development occupies the station site.