Blidworth and Rainworth railway station

Blidworth and Rainworth railway station served the villages of Blidworth and Rainworth in Nottinghamshire, England; it was a stop on the Midland Railway's Rolleston Junction to Mansfield line.

History
The station opened in 1871 as Rainworth when the Midland Railway extended the existing Rollesdon Junction to Southwell line from Southwell to Mansfield.

It was renamed Blidworth on 24 March 1877.

The station closed to passengers on 12 August 1929 when the Mansfield to Southwell section, which passed through a mining area, closed to passengers. The railway replaced it with a road motor omnibus service provided in conjunction with Mansfield and District Tramways Limited connecting with the railway stations between Mansfield and Newark. Freight services continued until 25 June 1964.

Nothing remains of the station or trackbed and it has been lost to a housing development called Curzon Close.

Stationmasters

 * A. Nowell 1872 - 1875 (formerly station master at Worthington)
 * E. Prisgrane 1875 - 1879
 * G. Lambert 1879 - 1884
 * W. Doughty 1884 - 1908
 * Charles Walter Chapple 1908 - 1929