Description:
The fenced off platform elevation of the former Plumtree railway station. Seen here in a state of partial disrepair (although the house section was still inhabited), it was later renovated and converted into a restaurant.
Plumtree was located on the Midland Railway's route from Nottingham to Melton Mowbray and opened to goods traffic in 1879 and to passengers in 1880. The line was principally intended for express trains between the North, Nottingham and London, and local passenger traffic was never heavy with most of the wayside stations closing in the 1940s. Plumtree (which had been named Plumtree and Keyworth until 1893) succumbed in 1949, but goods trains continued to call until 1965. The line itself closed to through traffic in 1968 with the section from Melton Mowbray to Edwalton being retained thereafter as a test track for experimental work. Evidence of this can be seen here with the track realigned and deep ballasted for high speed running; in the foreground the Down (northbound) platform has been completely removed.