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{{Short description|Transport interchange serving the city of Nottingham, England}}
{{About|the currently open station formerly known as Nottingham Midland|other, now-closed, main stations in Nottingham|Nottingham London Road railway station|and|Nottingham Victoria railway station}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2025}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox station
| name               = Nottingham
| symbol_location    = gb
| symbol             = rail
| symbol2            = nottingham
| image              = Nottingham railway station 2015 2.jpg
| caption            = Nottingham station main entrance after redevelopment
| borough            = [[Nottingham]]
| country            = England
| coordinates        = {{coord|52.947|-1.146|type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name          = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position      = {{gbmapscaled|SK575392|25|SK575392}}
| manager            = [[East Midlands Railway]]
| platforms          = 9<br />(7 [[National Rail]] & 2 [[Nottingham Express Transit|NET (tram)]])
| code               = NOT
| classification     = [[United Kingdom railway station categories|DfT category]] B
| original           = [[Midland Railway]]
| pregroup           = Midland Railway
| postgroup          = [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]
| years              = {{start date|1848|05|22|df=y}}
| events             = Opened as ''Nottingham''
| years1             = 16 January 1904
| events1            = New building opened
| years2             = 25 September 1950
| events2            = Renamed ''Nottingham City''
| years3             = 18 June 1951
| events3            = Renamed ''Nottingham Midland''
| years4             = 5 May 1969
| events4            = Renamed ''Nottingham''
| years5             = 9 March 2004
| events5            = ''Station Street'' tram stop opened
| years6             = 2011–2014
| events6            = Redeveloped
| years7             = 27 July 2015
| events7            = ''Nottingham Station'' tram stop opened to replace ''Station Street''
| mpassengers        = <!--{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2017/18 |passengers={{increase}} 7.805 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2018/19 |passengers={{increase}} 8.005 million |interchange={{pad|2em}} 0.522 million}}-->
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{decrease}} 7.865 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{decrease}} 0.478 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 1.417 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{decrease}} 0.105 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 5.202 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 0.323 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 6.740 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 0.404 million}}
{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{increase}} 7.145 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 0.498 million}}
| footnotes          = Passenger statistics from the [[Office of Rail and Road]]
| embedded           = {{Infobox designation list|embed=yes
| designation1         = Grade II*
| designation1_offname = Midland Railway Station
| designation1_date    = 12 July 1972
| designation1_number  = {{NHLE|num=1271301|short=yes}}
}}
}}

'''Nottingham station''', briefly known as '''Nottingham City''' and for rather longer as '''Nottingham Midland''', is a [[railway station]] and [[tram stop]] in the city of [[Nottingham]], England. It is the principal railway station of Nottingham. It is also a nodal point on the city's [[Nottingham Express Transit|tram system]], with a tram stop that was originally called Station Street but is now known as Nottingham Station. It is the busiest station in [[Nottinghamshire]], the busiest in the [[East Midlands]], and the second-busiest in [[Midlands|the Midlands]] after [[Birmingham New Street station|Birmingham New Street]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/estimates-of-station-usage |title=Estimates of Station Usage |publisher=Office of Rail & Road }}</ref>

The station was first built by the [[Midland Railway]] (MR) in 1848 and rebuilt by the same company in 1904, with much of the current building dating from the later date. It is now owned by [[Network Rail]] and managed by [[East Midlands Railway]] (EMR). Besides EMR trains, it is also served by [[CrossCountry]] and [[Northern (train operating company)|Northern]] trains and by [[Nottingham Express Transit]] (NET) trams.

The station was one of several that once served the city of Nottingham. Amongst these were the city centre stations of {{stnlnk|Nottingham Victoria}} on the [[Great Central Railway]], and {{stnlnk|Nottingham London Road}} on the [[Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)|Great Northern Railway]]; both of these stations are now closed. A number of minor stations served localities outside the city centre, but the only such station to remain open within the city boundaries is {{stnlnk|Bulwell}}.

==History==
===Early beginnings===
Nottingham's first station was [[Nottingham Carrington Street railway station|Carrington Street station]], which opened in May 1839, when the [[Midland Counties Railway]] opened the line from Nottingham to [[Derby railway station|Derby]]. This terminus station was situated on the opposite side of Carrington Street from the current station, on a site now occupied by [[Nottingham Magistrates' Court]]. The original station gate posts still exist and form the pedestrian entrance to the Magistrates' Courts area.

[[File:Nottingham Midland Station tower, detail - geograph.org.uk - 3837297.jpg|thumb|Nottingham Midland Station tower]]
[[File:Nottingham station's Art Nouveau Gates.jpg|thumb|Nottingham station's Art Nouveau gates]]

===The 1848 station===
In 1844 the [[Midland Counties Railway]] merged with two others into the [[Midland Railway]]. By 1848 the new company had outgrown Carrington Street station and new lines to Lincoln had been opened. A new through station was opened on the current station site on 22 May 1848, replacing the Carrington Street station. George Hall of Derby was the architect, and J.C. Hall of Nottingham the contractor<ref>{{cite news |title=The New Station |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001100/18480526/028/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Review |location=England |date=26 May 1848 |access-date=22 October 2022 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref> and it had its entrance on Station Street. During 1869 the Midland Railway purchased the West Croft Canal arm, filling it and building additional parallel tracks to south.<ref name="station-ca">{{cite report |url=http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=1409 |author=Development Control Committee |page=8 |work=Station Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan |issue=April 2008 |date=23 April 2008 |access-date=28 May 2012 |title=Historic Development and Archaeology |publisher=Nottingham City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903172858/http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=1409 |archive-date=3 September 2015}}</ref>

During the 1880s, Nottingham station employed 170 staff.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} Although attractive when it first opened, by the early 20th century the station was quite cramped, having only three platforms.

On 18 August 1896, a light engine, running tender first, was passing through the station when it collided with six empty fish trucks. One of the trucks was thrown off the rails against a cast-iron column supporting the inner ends of the principals of the station roof and, when the column broke, a portion of the roof, measuring about {{convert|94|ft|m}} by {{convert|56.5|ft|m}}, fell onto the platforms and track. Six people on the platform were injured.<ref>{{cite report |first=Maj. F. A. |last=Marindin |date=6 September 1896 |title=Accident at Nottingham on 18th August 1896 |work=Return of Accidents reported to Board of Trade by Railway Companies in United Kingdom, 1896 (with Reports of Inspecting Officers) |pages=149–152 |publisher=Board of Trade |publication-date=18 September 1896 |url=https://parlipapers.proquest.com/parlipapers/docview/t70.d75.1897-075350 |access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Accident at Nottingham Station |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000183/18961014/030/0003 |work=Evening Standard |location=London |date=14 October 1896 |access-date=27 July 2016 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

[[File:Scania OmniDekka YN55 NGF Nottingham CarringtonSt.jpg|thumb|Carrington Street entrance of the Edwardian Nottingham station]]

===The 1904 station===
[[File:Nottingham Midland Station, Nottingham - geograph.org.uk - 1578413.jpg|right|thumb|Nottingham Station, arrivals from the western perspective]]

When the [[Great Central Railway]] opened its [[Nottingham Victoria railway station|Nottingham Victoria Station]] in 1900, the [[Midland Railway]] appointed [[Albert Edward Lambert]],<ref name="tuffin-2008">{{cite web |url=http://www.tftconsultants.com/files/case_studies/nottingham_railway_station.pdf |title=Nottingham Railway Station |work=Featured Projects |first=Tuffin Ferraby |last=Taylor |editor-first=Rachael |editor-last=Johnstone |date=2 April 2008 |access-date=27 May 2012 |quote=AE Lambert built the station between 1903 and 1904 for Midland Railway Company.}}{{Dead link|date=September 2015}}</ref> a local Nottingham architect, to rebuild the Midland station. Lambert had been the architect for Great Central's station and, consequently, the two buildings had many similarities in their design. The station was rebuilt largely on the same site as the Station Street station, but the entrance was relocated onto [[Carrington Street, Nottingham|Carrington Street]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Railway Gazette Volume 37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1oyAQAAMAAJ |location=University of Chicago |publisher=Queen Anne's Chambers |page=743 |year=1922}}</ref>

The first contract for the station buildings was awarded to Edward Wood and Sons of [[Derby]] on 23 January 1903, who were also awarded the contract for the buildings on platforms 1 and 2 on 16 September 1903. The contract for the buildings on platforms 4 and 5 was awarded to [[Kirk and Parry|Kirk, Knight & Co]] of [[Sleaford]] on 18 June 1903, who were also responsible for building the parcels office (Forward House) on Station Street, which opened in November 1903. The structural steelwork and cast-ironwork was done by [[Andrew Handyside and Company|Handyside & Co.]]<ref>{{cite book |first=Jill |last=Armitage |title=Derby: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1445634775 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |date=11 August 2014 |isbn=978-1445634777}}</ref> and the Phoenix Foundry, both of Derby.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

The station was built in an [[Edwardian]] [[Baroque Revival]] style at a cost of £1&nbsp;million (£{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|1|1903|r=1}}}} million in {{Inflation-year|UK}}){{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}} and was described by the ''Nottingham Evening News'' on the eve of its opening (16 January 1904) as a "magnificent new block of buildings". The building used a mix of red brick, terracotta (used as a substitute for building stone) and [[faience]] (a [[Glazed architectural terra-cotta|glazed terracotta]]), with slate and glazed pitch roofs over the principal buildings. The carriage entrances have [[Art Nouveau]] wrought-iron gates.<ref>{{cite news |title=New Midland Station Nottingham |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19040116/045/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=16 January 1904 |access-date=1 March 2016 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The station's forebuildings were opened to passengers without any formal ceremony on 17 January 1904, although next day the ''Evening News'' reported that the platforms were still in a state of chaos and were not expected to be ready for another nine months. However, it did note that "the result promises to be the provision for Nottingham of one of the most commodious and most convenient passenger stations in the country". The day began with the closure of the booking offices in the old station, after the last tickets were issued for the 5:25&nbsp;a.m. London train and the new booking offices were opened in time to issue tickets for the 6:25&nbsp;a.m. [[River Erewash|Erewash Valley]] train. No attempt was made to exclude the public from the building and many took the opportunity to view the new station buildings. The ''Evening News'' commented on the public's admiration of the style and elegance of the station approaches and booking hall; it went on to describe the day's events.<ref>{{cite news |title=Opening of the New Nottingham Midland Station |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/19040118/047/0004 |newspaper=Nottingham Evening Post |location=England |date=18 January 1904 |access-date=1 March 2016 |via=[[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

===20th century===
[[File:Handyside casting at Nottingham railway station.jpg|thumb|right|Detail of structural pillar showing the Handyside company logo]]

The station became the property of the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]], under the [[Railways Act 1921|railway grouping]] of 1923. On 2 July 1939, the station was targeted by the [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|Irish Republican Army]]<ref name="books.google.ie">{{cite book |title=The IRA Bombing Campaign Against Britain, 1939Ð1940 |last=McKenna |first=J. |year=2016 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated Publishers |isbn=9781476623726 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLSaCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138 |page=138 |access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref> in an attack on eight stations in the Midlands under their [[S-Plan]]; the others being Leicester, Derby, Birmingham, Stoke, Coventry, Leamington Spa and Stafford. A bomb was left in a suitcase and exploded at 6:30&nbsp;a.m. The glass roof of the cloak room and enquiry office was blown away.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bomb Exposions in Nottingham, Leicester and Derby Stations |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001894/18600810/046/0002 |newspaper=Nottingham Journal |location=England |date=3 July 1939 |access-date=31 July 2018 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The station was [[nationalised]] in 1948, under the [[Transport Act 1947]], becoming part of [[British Rail]]ways. Following the [[Privatisation of British Rail|privatisation of the railways]] in the 1990s, ownership was transferred to [[Railtrack]] and subsequently to Network Rail.

For many years, the [[Midland Railway]] suffered the indignity of its rival, the [[Great Central Railway]], crossing above the station on a {{convert|170|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} bowstring girder bridge. This bridge became redundant in 1973 and was finally dismantled in the early 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gcrleicester.info/html/nottingham.html |title=Old Photographs: Nottingham Demolition |first=Nigel |last=Tout |website=gcrleicester.info |access-date=1 August 2020}}</ref> The alignment was later used for a new tramway bridge.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|8}}

[[File:Nottingham Victoria station (1960s).JPG|thumb|[[Nottingham Victoria railway station]], owned by [[Great Central Railway]]. Once a bustling hub of travel, was succeeded by Nottingham Midland Station, which became the city's primary mainline station following its closure]]

===Station Street tram stop===
[[File:Nottingham railway station MMB 85.jpg|thumb|right|The former Station Street tram stop, before the extension across the station towards the camera]]
With the opening of the [[Nottingham Express Transit]] (NET) in March 2004, Nottingham station became the southern terminus of the new tram line. The actual tram stop was located on Station Street, directly north of Nottingham station and partially over the [[Nottingham Canal]]. It was constructed on a [[reserved track|separate right-of-way]], built on top of part of the old [[Great Central Main Line]] viaduct that used to lead northwards to the separate [[Nottingham Victoria railway station]]. North of the former stop, the tram route diverged from the old railway route to join an [[street running|on-street section]] through the centre of Nottingham. To the south, the route ended at the end of the viaduct, where a since demolished bridge used to carry the Great Central line over the station. In 2012 work started to extend Nottingham Express Transit south towards Toton Lane and Clifton South.<ref name=ttssts/>

The tram stop itself was substantial, with a small station building containing a waiting area housing steps and a lift to reach the street below. There was also a short footbridge over Station Street, which connected to the main railway station. Up to three trams could be accommodated on the two platform faces; the western platform had a single-length platform, while the eastern platform was an extended double-length platform.<ref name=ttssts/>

===Redevelopment===
Plans for a multi-million pound refurbishment and redevelopment of the station were unveiled by junior government minister [[Norman Baker]] on 5 October 2010.<ref name="regen">{{cite news |url=http://www.regen.net/news/1032983/Nottingham-unveils-station-revamp-plans |title=Nottingham unveils station revamp plans |work=Regeneration & Renewal |first=Ben |last=Cook |date=5 October 2010 |access-date=28 May 2012 |publisher=Haymarket}}</ref><ref name="nep-minster">{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Transport-Minister-announces-ahead-163-60m-station-revamp/story-12255019-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505114251/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Transport-Minister-announces-ahead-163-60m-station-revamp/story-12255019-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Transport Minister announces go-ahead for £60m station revamp |date=4 October 2010 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ML0Zm8d-M |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/W7ML0Zm8d-M |archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live |title=Norman Baker, Under-Secretary of State for Transport, announces redevelopment of Nottingham station |format=video |via=YouTube |author=Nottingham City Council |date=4 October 2010 |access-date=28 May 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Under the scheme, the station's [[porte-cochère]] was to be made vehicle-free and the station's [[Grade II* listed]] buildings restored. The redevelopment also included the construction of another platform, more shops and a bridge to carry [[Nottingham Express Transit]] trams over the top of the station.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|5,8}}<ref name="morby-vinci"/>

====Funding====
The redevelopment was initially estimated to cost £67&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bdp.co.uk/urbanism/work/nottinghamstation/default.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021029010257/http://www.bdp.co.uk/urbanism/work/nottinghamstation/default.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 October 2002 |title=Nottingham Station}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bdp.com/Documents/Publications/Transport%20by%20BDP.pdf |title=Nottingham Station |work=Transport by BDP |page=20 |publisher=Building Design Partnership |date=1 May 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425130441/http://www.bdp.com/Documents/Publications/Transport%20by%20BDP.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2012}}</ref> East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) stated they would contribute £9.5&nbsp;million to the project, but had to reduce this amount following government cuts.<ref name="nep-minster"/><ref name="Robinson">{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/163-67m-station-revamp-deal-close/story-12248473-detail/story.html |title=Fly through £67m station revamp deal is 'close' |work=Nottingham Evening post |first=Jon |last=Robinson |date=18 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322173300/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/163-67m-station-revamp-deal-close/story-12248473-detail/story.html |archive-date=22 March 2013}}</ref> In July 2009, the then Transport Minister, [[Sadiq Khan]], gave conditional approval for the city council to use funds raised from their controversial Workplace Parking Levy to contribute to the redevelopment.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/nottingham-tram-extension-funding-approved.html |title=Nottingham tram extension funding approved |magazine=Railway Gazette |date=31 July 2009 |access-date=28 May 2012}}<br />{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XH8LdraWNk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/0XH8LdraWNk |archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live |title=NET Phase Two & Workplace Parking Levy go ahead |format=video |author=Nottingham City Council |via=YouTube |date=31 July 2009 |access-date=28 May 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The final funding was reorganised to be around £60&nbsp;million, with Network Rail contributing £41&nbsp;million, [[Nottingham City Council]] £14.8&nbsp;million, EMDA £2.1&nbsp;million, [[East Midlands Trains]] £1.6&nbsp;million and the Railway Heritage Trust<ref>[http://railwayheritagetrust.co.uk Railway Heritage Trust]</ref> £0.5&nbsp;million.<ref name="nep-minster"/><ref name="morby-vinci"/>

====Station masterplan====
[[File:Station tower and Nottingham Castle - geograph.org.uk - 4122798.jpg|thumb|Station tower and Nottingham Castle]]

In 2001 the architects [[Building Design Partnership]] (BDP) were appointed as the lead consultants,<ref name="rrp-2004">{{cite report |url=http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F1127/station.doc |title=Nottingham Station Master Plan |work=Report of the Duty Chief Executive |author2=Regeneration and Renewal Panel |date=11 October 2004 |access-date=27 May 2012 |first1=Barry |last1=Horne |editor-first=Richard |editor-last=Wood |publisher=Nottingham City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109234335/http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F1127%2Fstation.doc |archive-date=9 January 2016}}</ref>{{rp|3}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=5406 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907201247/http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/content/detail.aspx?ReleaseID=5406 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 September 2012 |title=Station Transformation Moves a Step Closer |work=Press Releases |publisher=Network Rail |date=9 August 2010 |access-date=27 May 2012 |editor-first=Keith |editor-last=Lumley |quote=BDP … the Manchester studio has been involved in the redevelopment of Nottingham and Chester stations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bdp.com/News/2008/BDP-Appointed-for-Retail-Elemant-of-Birminghams-New-Street-Station/ |title=BDP Appointed for Retail Element of Birmingham's New Street Station |date=15 February 2008 |access-date=27 May 2012 |publisher=[[Building Design Partnership]] |work=News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413124752/http://www.bdp.com/News/2008/BDP-Appointed-for-Retail-Elemant-of-Birminghams-New-Street-Station/ |archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref><ref name="property-mall-2001">{{cite news |url=http://www.propertymall.com/press/article/8067 |title=Building Design Partnership – Nottingham Rail Station |work=Property Mall |date=17 October 2001 |access-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208110233/http://www.propertymall.com/press/article/8067 |archive-date=8 December 2007}}</ref> using the same team that had redeveloped {{stnlnk|Manchester Piccadilly}} based on an estimate of £550,000<ref name="rrp-2004"/>{{rp|4}} and in cooperation with Posford Rail, [[MVA in Asia|MVA]]<!--Alan Manners Voorhees-->, [[Jones Lang LaSalle]] and [[Bovis Lend Lease]].<ref name="property-mall-2001"/>

*Stage 1 of the Nottingham Station Masterplan cost £99,960<ref>{{cite web |url=http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F758/jannottmstationful.doc |title=Nottingham Station Masterplan |work=Report of the Director of Development and Environmental Services |date=14 February 2002 |access-date=27 May 2012 |editor-first=Adrian |editor-last=Jones |publisher=Nottingham City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118054944/http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F758%2Fjannottmstationful.doc |archive-date=18 January 2016}}</ref> and was launched at Loxley House on 19 July 2002.<ref name="ptpdrc-2002"/>{{rp|4}} The main stakeholders at the time were Nottingham City Council, [[Nottinghamshire County Council]], [[Central Trains]], [[Midland Mainline (train operating company)|Midland Mainline]], Nottingham Development Enterprise, Nottingham Regeneration Limited and the EMDA, which together acted as the Nottingham Railway Station Steering Group.<ref name="ptpdrc-2002"/>{{rp|1–2}}
*State 2a of the masterplan preparation was budgeted to cost £59,940 and also to be undertaken by BDP.<ref name="ptpdrc-2002">{{cite report |url=http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F4669/stationmp0902.doc |title=Nottingham Station Masterplan |work=Report of the Director of Development and Environmental Services |date=12 September 2002 |access-date=27 May 2012 |author=Planning and Transportation Policy Development and Review Committee |editor-first=Richard |editor-last=Wood |publisher=Nottingham City Council |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040829124328/http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=F4669%2Fstationmp0902.doc |archive-date=29 August 2004}}</ref>{{rp|5}}

BDP engaged Tuffin Ferraby Taylor to undertake surveys of all elements of the station dating from before 1918.<ref name="tuffin-2008"/> As well as an integrated NET tram station above platform 6,<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|5}} the masterplan included an additional concourse<ref name="langston-2009">{{cite journal |url=http://www.railwaystrategies.co.uk/article-page.php?contentid=7316&issueid=242|title=The path to Crossrail |date=2 March 2009 |first=Christopher |last=Langston |publisher=Schofield Publishing |journal=Railway Strategies |issue=242 |access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref> and safeguarding for an additional platform.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|5|quote=railway safeguarding allows Platform 7 to be built in time when passenger demand dictates.}}

====Car park====
Between 2011 and 2012, a new [[multi-storey car park]] was constructed between platform 6 and Queen's Road, over the western half of the station's existing car park.<ref name="samuel-begin">{{cite news |url=http://www.rail.co/2011/03/07/improvements-at-nottingham-station-begin/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116002704/http://www.rail.co/2011/03/07/improvements-at-nottingham-station-begin/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 January 2013 |title=Improvements at Nottingham station begin |date=7 March 2011 |first=A. |last=Samuel |work=Rail.co |access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref> It was built by [[Vinci (construction)|Vinci Construction]]<ref name="morby-vinci">{{cite journal |url=http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2011/08/11/vinci-in-talks-to-build-60m-nottingham-station/ |title=Vinci in talks to build £60m Nottingham station |journal=Construction Enquirer |first=Aaron |last=Morby |date=11 August 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> beginning in March 2011 and officially opened on 14 May 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Train-station-car-park-opens/story-16086937-detail/story.html |title=Train station car park opens |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=15 May 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022104/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Train-station-car-park-opens/story-16086937-detail/story.html |archive-date=19 May 2012}}</ref>

The initial car park design had been put on hold in 2008, after being described as a "chicken coop".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7571625.stm |title=Station car park plan put on hold |date=20 August 2008 |work=BBC News Online |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="bbc-chicken-coop-2">{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7792572.stm |title=Station car park plan moves ahead |date=19 December 2008 |work=BBC News Online |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref> The final design for the car park has 2,107 coloured metal sheets on the outside, formed of 2.1-millimetre-thick copper and stainless steel (1.5&nbsp;mm stainless, 0.6&nbsp;mm "Luvata" Copper).<ref name="bbc-chicken-coop-2"/><ref name="cpc-clading">{{cite web |url=http://www.cpbsonline.eu/pressrelease/pressrelease.aspx?companyname=CA+Group&title=All+Change+as+Contemporary+Car+Park+Fa%C3%A7ade+Transforms+Nottingham+Station |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130213070326/http://www.cpbsonline.eu/pressrelease/pressrelease.aspx?companyname=CA+Group&title=All+Change+as+Contemporary+Car+Park+Fa%C3%A7ade+Transforms+Nottingham+Station |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 February 2013 |title=All Change as Contemporary Car Park Façade Transforms Nottingham Station |date=26 April 2012 |author=Specialist Cladding Systems |access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref> These panels are affixed to the car park using 8,000 cleats fixed to pre-cast channels in the concrete structure.<ref name="cpc-clading"/> The new car park building has five storeys<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Train-station-car-park-opens/story-16086937-detail/story.html |title=Train station car park opens |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=15 May 2012 |access-date=28 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519022104/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Train-station-car-park-opens/story-16086937-detail/story.html |archive-date=19 May 2012}}</ref> and space for 950 cars.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-12645916 |title=Work starts on new Nottingham Railway Station car park |date=4 March 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012 |work=BBC News Online}}</ref>

====Remodelling====
Schemes costing £19&nbsp;million (in 2007) and then £14&nbsp;million (in 2008) were proposed.<ref name="joint-2008-10"/>{{rp|1}} Remodelling and re-signalling costing £11.6&nbsp;million were approved on 15 May 2009 by the Network Rail Investment Board<ref name="bamford-2009">{{cite web |url=http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=38970/170709railissues.doc |title=Nottingham station resignalling scheme enhancements |work=Joint Committee on Strategic Planning & Transport |publisher=Nottingham City Council; Nottingham County Council |editor1-first=Jim |editor1-last=Bamford |editor2-first=Chris |editor2-last=Carter |date=17 July 2009 |access-date=28 May 2012 |author=Joint Officer Steering Group |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109234335/http://open.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/comm/download3.asp?dltype=inline&filename=38970%2F170709railissues.doc |archive-date=9 January 2016}}</ref> and took place as part of Control Period 4 (CP4), between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2014.<ref name="nr-em-cp4">{{cite web |url=https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/a-new-start-for-rail-passengers-and-freight-in-the-east-midlands |title=A New Start for Rail Passengers and Freight in the East Midlands |website=networkrailmediacentre.co.uk |quote=Signalling renewals at Nottingham station … segregation of trains at the west end of Nottingham with bi-directionally paired tracks for trains to Derby / Leicester and Mansfield / Sheffield |date=31 March 2009 |access-date=11 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011213819/https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/a-new-start-for-rail-passengers-and-freight-in-the-east-midlands |archive-date=11 October 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> Nottingham station was partially closed for ten weeks during 2013 for the track and signalling work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/news-and-publications/document-search/document.asp?dsid=4793 |title=Some of Passenger Focus's recent successes |work=Making a difference for all passengers |issue=February 2012 |access-date=28 May 2012 |publisher=[[Passenger Focus]] |date=13 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415101006/http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/news-and-publications/document-search/document.asp?dsid=4793 |archive-date=15 April 2012}}</ref> During the blockade, the western end of the station was closed to trains for 37 days and the eastern end for 10 days.<ref name="dangerfield-2011">{{cite report |url=http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/Board_papers/1111/Nov%2011%20BM%206.1)%20service%20disruption.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20141203172737/http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk/Board_papers/1111/Nov%2011%20BM%206.1%29%20service%20disruption.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2014 |title=Service disruption caused by engineering work |first=Guy |last=Dangerfield |editor-first=Mike |editor-last=Hewitson |date=9 November 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012 |work=Board Meeting Paper |publisher=Passenger Focus |pages=1–2}}</ref>

Platform 4 was split to create two platforms.<ref name="nep-upgrade-100">{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Designs-approved-biggest-city-rail-upgrade-100-years/story-12186091-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505090447/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Designs-approved-biggest-city-rail-upgrade-100-years/story-12186091-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Designs approved for 'biggest city rail upgrade in over 100 years' |date=18 July 2009 |access-date=28 May 2012 |work=Nottingham Evening Post}}</ref><ref name="nol-revamp">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-11465495 |title=Go-ahead for £60m Nottingham railway station revamp |date=4 October 2010 |access-date=27 May 2012 |work=BBC News Online}}</ref> All four tracks at the western end were given [[bi-directional railway signalling]], allowing a better choice of non-conflicting routes.<ref name="nep-upgrade-100"/> These lines are referred to as Line&nbsp;A, Line&nbsp;B, Line&nbsp;C and Line&nbsp;D.<ref name="rotp-tt-2012"/>{{rp|61|section=Nottingham (Western Side) (Post Nottingham Blockade)}} Although all lines are bi-directional, their use is segregated, with services towards Sheffield and Mansfield focused on the northern pair of tracks, and services to Derby and Leicester focused on the southern pair of tracks.<ref name="nr-em-cp4"/><ref name="nr-cp4-programme"/>{{rp|140}} Line speeds for trains arriving from Chesterfield and the Robin Hood Line were increased from {{convert|35|mph}} to {{convert|50|mph}}.<ref name="nep-upgrade-100"/> On 7 March 2012, Network Rail requested formal "network change" acceptance from the train operating companies.<ref name="nr-cp4-programme"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/network%20code/network%20change/current%20proposals/london%20north%20eastern/nc%20g1%202010%20lne%20012a%20nottingham%20station%20area%20signalling%20renewal%20-%20amendment/a%20ncg12010lne012a%20notification.pdf |title=Proposed G1 Network Change: Nottingham Station Area Signalling Renewals – Amendment |issue=NC/G1/2010/LNE/012A |publisher=Network Rail |access-date=28 May 2012 |format=letter |date=7 March 2012}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://wwtb1.networkrail.co.uk/browsedirectory.aspx?root=&dir=\network%20code\network%20change\current%20proposals\london%20north%20eastern\NC%20G1%202010%20LNE%20012A%20Nottingham%20Station%20Area%20Signalling%20Renewal%20-%20Amendment |title=NC G1 2010 LNE 012A Nottingham Station Area Signalling Renewal – Amendment |publisher=Network Rail |date=28 May 2012 |format=directory |access-date=14 July 2022 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235328/http://wwtb1.networkrail.co.uk/browsedirectory.aspx?root=&dir=%5Cnetwork%20code%5Cnetwork%20change%5Ccurrent%20proposals%5Clondon%20north%20eastern%5CNC%20G1%202010%20LNE%20012A%20Nottingham%20Station%20Area%20Signalling%20Renewal%20-%20Amendment |url-status=dead}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ params|Change in platform numbering and lengths after remodelling<ref name="rotp-tt-2012">{{cite web |url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/Rules%20Of%20The%20Route/TPRyearYY/emYYp.pdf |page=61,77 |date=13 April 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |title=East Midlands |work=Timetable Planning Rules |volume=2013 Timetable |issue=3.0 |author=Operational Planning Project Manager |publisher=Network Rail}}</ref>{{rp|77}}
! Platform number
!rowspan="2"| previous
| 1 || 2 || 3
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 4 || 5 || 6
|-
! Platform length
| {{steady}}409 || {{steady}}82 || {{steady}}409
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| {{steady}}373 || {{steady}}372 || {{steady}}285
|-
! Platform number
!rowspan="2"| post-2013
| 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7
|-
! Platform length
|{{decrease}}343 || {{increase}}90 || {{decrease}}296 || {{decrease}}112 || {{decrease}}150 || {{decrease}}290 || {{decrease}}268
|}

On-site preparation works began in September 2011, with all new signal structures installed by June 2013 followed by the "Nottingham blockade"; this itself lasted from July 2013 until the handover in September 2013.<ref name="nr-cp4-programme">{{cite report |url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse20documentsStrategicBusinessPlanDelivery20Plan2010Enhancements20programme20statement20of20scope20outputs20and20milestones20(June20201020Update).pdf |title=Programme – Nottingham resignalling |work=Network Rail CP4 Delivery Plan 2010 Enhancements programme: statement of scope, outputs and milestones |issue=June 2010 update |date=29 June 2010 |publisher=Network Rail |access-date=28 May 2012 |pages=140–141 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101192045/http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse20documentsStrategicBusinessPlanDelivery20Plan2010Enhancements20programme20statement20of20scope20outputs20and20milestones20%28June20201020Update%29.pdf |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref>{{rp|141}} The work was spread from Beeston, past Mansfield Junction, Nottingham West Junction and to Nottingham East Junction.<ref name="nr-cp4-programme"/>{{rp|140}} The blockade covered renewing {{convert|5.9|km}} of track and adding or renewing 14 sets of [[pointwork]].<ref name="nr-cp4-programme"/>{{rp|140}}

====Entrances====
The station has three entrances: Carrington Street (west), Trent Street/Station Street (north), and Queen's Road (south). The north and south entrances are connected by a footbridge and public footpath. The north exit to Trent Street is the most heavily used and where the [[taxi rank]] is situated.<ref name="connolly-2024-11-10"/>

;1900s
During 1919/1920 the [[Midland Railway]] Company inhibited access via the Trent Street exit. On 24 February 1919, a petition "signed by over 1,000 season-ticket holders" was submitted to the Midland Railway Company. Member of Parliament for [[Nottingham Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Nottingham Central]] [[Albert Atkey]] raised numerous questions in the [[House of Commons]], answered by the [[President of the Board of Trade]] [[Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes|Auckland Geddes]] and [[Secretary of State for Transport|Minister for Transport]] [[Eric Geddes]].<ref hansard-1919-07-30">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1919-07-30/debates/eea5d1d5-2ce0-4ecf-9e43-bcac40918314/RailwayAdministration|date=30 July 1919|title=Railway Administration|volume=118|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the information supplied to him by the Midland Railway Company in respect of the opening of one of the closed entrances to their Nottingham station is incorrect, and that the opening of the entrance opposite Trent Street would not involve any additional booking office accommodation or the appointment of any additional booking clerks, none of which have ever been provided at this entrance prior to its closure … [[Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes|Mr. A. Geddes]] … if the policy of the company, namely, to convert Nottingham Station from an open to a closed one, is continued, … I am asking an inspecting officer of railways to take an opportunity of visiting the station,}}</ref><ref hansard-1919-08-11">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/aug/11/re-opening-of-stations|date=11 August 1919|access-date=30 October 2024|volume=119|issue=c865-6|title=Re-opening of Stations|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … whether he has now seen the letter from the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce and the Town Clerk of Nottingham upon the subject of the inconvenience caused to the travelling public of Nottingham by the closure of the entrance to the Midland Station opposite Trent Street; whether he is aware that a petition was sent to the Midland Railway Company on 24th February, 1919, signed by over 1,000 season-ticket holders and endorsed by many citizens testifying to the inconvenience caused by the closure of this entrance; and whether, in view of the inconvenience caused by the existing state of affairs, he will make such representations to the [[Railway Executive Committee]] as will at once meet the demand for the re-opening of the entrance in question? [[William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman|Mr. Bridgeman]] The letter … has been brought to the notice of the Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, who, as stated in the reply given on the subject on the 4th August [1919], will visit the station as soon as his duties permit.}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-08-07">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/aug/07/consolidated-fund-no-2-bill|date=7 August 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|volume=119|issue=cc599-702|title=Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=5.0 P.M. [[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] I have been a Member of this House for six months, and this is the first occasion on which I have ventured to address it. … We have been told by the Chancellor or the Financial Secretary that every question in this House costs the country a sovereign apiece. … until he can persuade the Board of Trade to provide intelligent answers to questions and to give due attention to rational questions put to them, there is likely to be a drain on the resources of this country of at least £1 per week until he has persuaded the President of the Board of Trade to give the people of Nottingham access to the Midland Railway Station.}}</ref> On 18 August 1919, the Chief Inspector of Railways [[John Wallace Pringle]] visited Nottingham Midlands Station "in connection with this matter".<ref hansard-1919-08-18">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/aug/18/nottingham-midland-station|date=18 August 1919|title=Nottingham Midland Station|volume=119|issue=c1887|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … asked [[Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes|the President of the Board of Trade]] … petition to the Midland Railway Company, signed by over 1,000 season-ticket holders, as to the great inconvenience suffered by the travelling public in Nottingham arising from the closing of the entrance to the Midland Station opposite Trent Street, he will make such representations to the [[Railway Executive Committee]] as will at once meet the demand for the reopening of the entrance in question, and also avoid the necessity of taking [[John Wallace Pringle|the chief inspecting officer of railways]] from his more important duties in order to visit Nottingham? [[Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes|Mr. A. Geddes]] … [[John Wallace Pringle|the chief inspecting officer of railways]] is today visiting Nottingham in connection with this matter.}}</ref><ref name="hansard-1919-11-01">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/dec/01/midland-railway#S5CV0122P0_19191201_HOC_142|title=Midland Railway|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … asked the Minister of Transport (1) whether he is aware that the special Report of an investigation by the Board of Trade on the 19th August [1919] as to the desirability of reopening the closed exit from the Midland Station opposite Trent Street … additional distance which passengers have to walk … is 320 yards; in view of this inaccuracy, is he prepared to instruct the Midland Railway Company to reopen this exit; and is he aware that the admitted local irritation and ill-feeling has been intensified by the refusal of the Midland Railway Company to accede to his own suggestion to them that the exits should be reopened for one or two months on trial?}}</ref><ref name="hansard-1919-12-22">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1919/dec/22/railway-services-nottingham|title=Railway Services, Nottingham|date=22 December 1919|access-date=30 October 2024|volume=123|issue=c988-9|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] asked the Minister of Transport whether his refusal to instruct the Midland Railway Company to reopen the closed exit opposite Trent Street, Nottingham, arises from the cost involved [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] … details of such cost, which are given in the report by the Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, … furnished with a copy in August [1919] last. [[Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck|Lord H. Cavendish-Bentinck]] Will the right hon. Gentleman accept my assurance that the very greatest discomfort is experienced by passengers at Nottingham by this arrangement? Dr. Murray … questions on this everlasting gate every week? [[Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft|Brigadier-General Croft]] When are the people of Nottingham to be given these facilities?}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-02-23">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1920-02-23/debates/0bb2aa79-6b5c-45eb-9c21-f45a7fa2911a/MidlandStationNottingham|volume=125|title=Midland Station, Nottingham|date=23 February 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … loss in time to business people is greatly in excess of the larger of these sums: and is he prepared, on the grounds of national economy, to give instructions for the closed exit to be reopened? … [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] … estimated by the [[Midland Railway|[Midland] Railway Company]] in August last that the re-opening of the exit referred to, without the provision of booking facilities, would cost the amounts mentioned}}</ref> By March 1920 local employer [[Boots (company)|Boots the Chemist]] were offering to pay the Midland Railway {{GBPConvert|100|year=1920|convert=no|r=-2|lk=off|exact=source|showdate=no}} for maintenance of the Trent Street entrance.<ref hansard-1920-03-01">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1920-03-01/debates/70e5fc62-fbea-4b2e-b83d-3881adc75904/CommonsChamber|date=1 March 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|volume=126|title=Commons Chamber|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … re-opening the closed exit from the Midland Railway opposite Trent Street, Nottingham; will he give details showing how it is arrived at; and what the net cost would be after allowing for the saving to the Exchequer which would follow the employment of discharged and demobilised sailors or soldiers now drawing out-of-work donations, and also taking credit for the contribution of £100 per annum offered by [[Boots (company)|Boots Cash Chemists, Limited]], as an acknowledgment of the convenience which the re-opening of the exit would provide to many hundreds of their employees? [[Charles Edgar Loseby|Caption Loseby]] Cannot [[Eric Geddes|the hon. Gentleman]] spare the House a repetition of the very painful details of this controversy by making something in the nature of a concession to [[Albert Atkey|the right hon. Gentleman]]? Dr. Murray … Would [[Eric Geddes|the hon. Gentleman]] also take into account the amount of money that would be saved by the elimination of this weekly conundrum from the Question Paper?}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-03-10">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1920-03-10/debates/f5f54ae3-99c2-4462-8ced-9fe1ea292c21/MinistryOfTransport|date=10 March 1920|volume=126|title=Ministry Of Transport|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … drawing attention to the closing of the gate of a railway station in Nottingham. … 2,000 or 3,000 people at least who are irritated every day. … this is a small incident it involves a big principle—whether this House is going to permit the advice of one of its Members to be over-ridden in favour of the view of the minor official of a railway company. … I said … "If can get [[David Lloyd George|the Prime Minister]] to express an opinion on the subject, do you think that that might count?" … "Well, perhaps we might be inclined to take some little notice of the opinion of the Prime Minister." … decided to confer upon the Prime Minister the Freedom of the City [of Nottingham] …"}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-03-15">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1920-03-15/debates/dbc2cb48-0369-4c14-8687-12a813fcee12/MidlandStationNottingham|date=15 March 1920|title=Midland Station, Nottingham|volume=126|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … cost of re-opening the closed exit opposite Trent Street, Nottingham? … [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] … estimated that the annual cost of re-opening the closed exit from 5 a.m to midnight would be £548 6s. 5d., and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., £358 10s. 0d. In addition, the provision of collapsible gates and a ticket collector's cabin would be necessary the estimated cost of which is £100.}}</ref>
<ref name="hansard-1920-03-22a">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1920/mar/22/midland-station-nottingham|title=Midland Station, Nottingham|volume=127|issue=c67W|date=22 March 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|work=Hansard|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|format=written answer|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … how the costs of re-opening the closed exit from the Midland station opposite Trent Street, Nottingham, are arrived at … [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] …}}</ref>
<ref hansard-1920-03-22b">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1920-03-22/debates/af5da961-f4e6-4699-b2b0-b26e2cb769aa/MidlandRailwayNottingham(PlatformCharges)|volume=127|title=Midland Railway, Nottingham (Platform Charges)|date=22 March 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … when the system of charging for admission to the platform of the Midland Railway station at Nottingham was first adopted; and what is the amount which has been received by the railway company … [[Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe|Mr. Betterton]] … Is this the station from which facilities have recently been withdrawn on the ground of expense? … [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] … Not recently—a considerable time ago. We have had many questions on thy subject.}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-03-24">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/mar/24/transport-1|title=Transport|date=24 March 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=amount of money now being collected from the public in Nottingham in the way of [[platform ticket]]s. … The closed station was inconvenient enough, but now people who desire to see their friends depart or to meet incoming visitors have to pay 1d. … a proper way of spending the funds now collected by the Midland Co. … would be … the opening of the exit. … The Minister is being advised by an official of the railway company, and he is standing on that advice, against the advice I have brought to him and against the resolutions of the City Council of Nottingham, the Chambers of Commerce in Nottingham, and many other trade associations in Nottingham. All these people who are interested are organising a petition, … [[J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone|Major-General Seely]] … may I be allowed, … to endorse the plea that has been made so often by the hon. Member for Nottingham (Mr. Atkey) for further facilities at Nottingham station. I have never said anything about this before, but I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that all the facts are as stated by my hon. Friend, and that the inconvenience caused to the public in a place which is near my own constituency is very great, and I cannot understand why he cannot put this matter right. I would urge him in the strongest terms to get rid of whatever technical difficulties there may be. … in what is a small matter, but one which nevertheless causes great inconvenience to many thousands of people in a great industrial centre. [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] As to Nottingham station, I feel sure that everyone wishes, including myself, that success may crown the crusades which my hon. Friend is waging, and now that he has an ally in my right hon. Friend (Major-General Seely) I think I shall have to join them and see what can be done.}}</ref> On 27 April 1920, a petition was submitted to Parliament "signed by the Mayor, [[Sheriff of Nottingham (position)|Sheriff]], and the Town Clerk on behalf of the civic authorities of Nottingham, the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and the members of the Council, and 18,000 other users of the railway".<ref hansard-1920-04-27">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/apr/27/midland-railway-nottingham-station|date=27 April 1920|volume=128|issue=c1006|title=Midland Railway (Nottingham Station)|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] I desire to present a petition from tradesmen, workmen, manufacturers, merchants, and other citizens of the city and environments of Nottingham. The petition showeth: … "Until the 2nd of February, 1917, there existed an entrance to the Midland Station opposite Station Street which gave access to and from the centre of the station to various platforms, which entrance was of the greatest convenience." "Your petitioners, therefore, pray that this honourable House will give direction to [[Eric Geddes|the Minister of Transport]] to call upon the [[Midland Railway]] Company to re-open that entrance." The petition is signed by the Mayor, Sheriff, and the Town Clerk on behalf of the civic authorities of Nottingham, the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and the members of the Council, and 18,000 other users of the railway.}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-07-12">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/jul/12/midland-railway-station-nottingham|date=12 July 1920|title=Midland Railway Station, Nottingham|volume=131|issue=cc1938-9|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]]] … petition presented to this honourable House, signed by the mayor and sheriff of Nottingham on behalf of the city, and by 18,000 users of the Midland Railway, praying for the re-opening of the closed exit opposite Trent Street, Nottingham … [[Eric Geddes|Mr. E. Geddes]] This matter is still in hand. The Midland Railway Company have informed me that they would raise no objection to re-opening the exit if the Corporation desire this facility and will bear the cost, … [[James Remnant, 1st Baron Remnant|Sir J. Remnant]] Has not the right hon. Gentleman power to make the railway company open this station if he is satisfied that it should be opened? … [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] No, I am advised not.}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-11-08">{{cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1920-11-08/debates/22efc91a-4d4b-4dd2-9140-6055cf8d92c5/MidlandRailwayStationNottingham(ClosedExit)|volume=134|title=Midland Railway Station, Nottingham (Closed Exit)|date=8 November 1920|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … request the Midland Railway Company to reopen the closed exit from their Nottingham station opposite Trent Street?}}</ref><ref hansard-1920-11-29">{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1920/nov/29/midland-railway-platform-ticket|date=29 November 1920|title=Midland Railway (Platform Tickets, Nottingham)|access-date=30 October 2024|work=[[Hansard]]|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]|quote=[[Albert Atkey|Mr. Atkey]] … ascertain from the [[Midland Railway]] Company the date when the [[platform ticket|platform tax]] was first imposed at their Nottingham station; and what is the amount of revenue which has accrued from this source up to date? [[Eric Geddes|Sir E. Geddes]] The side entrances to Nottingham station were closed in February 1917, and I presume that a charge for admission to the platforms was instituted at or about that time. I am ascertaining what the platform ticket receipts are …}}</ref>
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;2024
During October/November 2024, [[East Midlands Railway]] (EMR) inhibited access via the Trent Street exit, from platforms 1‒6.
From 28 October 2024, EMR had planned to inhibit access from platforms 1–6 (via the footbridge and the public right of way) to both Queen's Road (south) and Trent Street (north) entrances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/nottingham/|title=Nottingham (NOT): Centre Footbridge access amended|quote=From Monday 28 October, the centre footbridge at this station will close. Access to, from and between platforms will be via the stairs/lifts at the main entrance of the station. … The Public Right of Way will be maintained between Queen's Road (near the multi-storey Car Park) and Station Street/Tram, however, you will not be able to access platforms from this bridge.|access-date=26 October 2024|work=National Rail website|publisher=Rail Delivery Group}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dp7wwv5peo|first=Isaac|last=Ashe|work=BBC News|department=East Midlands|title=Train station change planned to stop fare dodgers|date=25 October 2024|access-date=26 October 2024|quote=From Monday, the footbridge connecting Station Street to Queen's Road will have access to platforms one to six closed off. East Midlands Railway said the public right of way would be maintained and people would still be able to access the tram from the bridge.}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=https://news.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/news/all-change-at-nottingham-station-emr-announce-key-changes-to-footbridge-to-tackle-fare-evaders|title=All change at Nottingham station: EMR announce key changes to footbridge to tackle fare evaders|work=News|publisher=East Midlands Railway|access-date=26 October 2024|quote=from Monday, October 28 … The footbridge, which connects Station Street to Queen's Road, will remain a public right of way. Customers who have previously used the bridge are advised to allow extra time to walk through the station to catch their required service. Access to the tram on Station Street via the footbridge will also be maintained.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://nottstv.com/commuters-and-businesses-divided-over-closure-of-nottingham-station-entrance/|work=[[Notts TV]]|title=Commuters and businesses divided over closure of Nottingham Station entrance|first=George|last=Palmer-Soady|date=25 October 2024|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> {{As of|2024|10|29}}, access to both entrances remained open, with the planned pilot project under review.<ref name="metcalf-2024-10-29">{{cite news|url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/eastmidlands/news/2091405-east-midlands-railway-postpones-controversial-decision-to-close-station-footbridge|title=East Midlands Railway postpones controversial decision to close station footbridge|first=Sam|last=Metcalf|work=Business Desk|quote=East Midlands Railway (EMR) has postponed controversial plans to close its footbridge to passengers at Nottingham Railway Station after substantial opposition … EMR said late on Tuesday afternoon [29 October 2024] that: "The footbridge remains open for the moment. The team is reviewing feedback and making some final assessments; the closure is now expected to be later in the week."}}</ref>
Blocking of passenger access to the platforms was in place after 16:30 on 30 October 2024.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://westbridgfordwire.com/nottingham-station-access-to-platforms-blocked-from-walkway-comes-into-force/|title=Nottingham Station: Access to platforms blocked from walkway trial comes into force|date=31 October 2024|access-date=5 November 2024|work=West Bridgford Wire|quote=trial, which is set to last two weeks, was implemented at 4:30 pm on Wednesday 30 October [2024].}}</ref><ref name="connolly-20241005">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/closure-nottingham-railway-station-entrance-9676969|title=Closure of Nottingham railway station entrance will be reviewed to see if it's working|first=Joseph|last=Connolly|date=31 October 2024|access-date=5 November 2024|work=Nottingham Evening Post|quote=closure of the route to platforms from Station Street is a "pilot" and will last in its first phase until November 17. … the closure was delayed and pushed back ... On Wednesday, October 30, a guard was seen at the entrance to the footbridge stopping people … and was being enforced from 4pm on that day.}}</ref>

Taxi drivers based at the Trent Street exit were not informed of the pilot closure and had seen significantly reduced business.<ref name="connolly-2024-11-10">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-railway-station-exit-closure-9700724|title=Nottingham railway station exit closure like 'final nail in coffin' for black cab drivers|work=Nottingham Evening Post|first=Joseph|last=Connolly|date=10 November 2024|access-date=12 November 2024|quote=Chander Sood, the secretary of Nottingham's Hackney Carriage Owners and Drivers Association, said: "… We used to wait 15 minutes for a job, and now it's around two hours. … taxi drivers' frustration is not aimed at EMR – even though they say they weren't told about the Station Street exit closing. … It's very inconvenient for the customers. We're losing about 40–50% of trade". Mr [Mohammed] Akram [said] Nottingham City Council told them that the Station Street exit was where most passengers exited}}</ref>
Local members of parliament [[Nadia Whittome]] and [[Lilian Greenwood]] met with EMR on 1 November 2024.<ref name="beck-20241108">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/urgent-meeting-called-over-closure-9691483|title=Urgent meeting called over closure of pedestrian entrance at Nottingham Railway Station|first=Laycie|last=Beck|date=6 November 2024|access-date=8 November 2024|work=Nottingham Evening Post|quote=… closure of the entrance forms part of a pilot scheme, of which phase one will last until 17 November [2024]. … Nottingham Labour MPs [[Nadia Whittome]] and [[Lilian Greenwood]] … met with representatives for East Midlands Railway on Friday, November 1 [2024].}}</ref> Leader of Nottingham City Council Neghat Khan met with EMR on 12 November 2024<ref name="locker-20241112">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/decision-shut-nottingham-railway-station-9707998|title=Decision to shut Nottingham railway station bridge branded 'unacceptable'|first=Joe|last=Locker|date=12 November 2024|access-date=14 November 2024|work=Nottingham Evening Post|quote=Cllr Khan said she would be meeting directors from EMR on Tuesday (12 November [2024]) to discuss the issue. Nottingham's black cab drivers, who are now based in Trent Street, said the station's side entrance had been a key part of their business.}}</ref> and stated that the closure was "crazy".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5dyxe08vo|title=Rail footbridge closure is 'crazy' says council boss|first=Hugh|last=Casswell|department=BBC Nottingham|work=BBC News|date=12 November 2024|access-date=14 November 2024|quote=Nottingham City Council leader Neghat Khan called the closure "crazy" and said other rail users should not be inconvenienced.}}</ref>
The pilot was planned to end on 17 November 2024.<ref name="kataria-20241108">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c704kr7yr5wo|title=Rail footbridge closure trial to last three weeks|date=31 October 2024|access-date=5 November 2024|work=BBC News|first=Sonia|last=Kataria|quote=the trial will end on 17 November, after which a review will be conducted to "evaluate its effectiveness".}}</ref> {{As of|2024|11|18}} access had been re-instated.<ref name="moldoveanu-20241118">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-train-station-bridge-reopens-9724871|title=Nottingham train station bridge reopens as fare-dodger clampdown trial ends|first=Rucsandra|last=Moldoveanu|work=Nottingham Evening Post|date=18 November 2024|access-date=19 November 2024|quote=pilot scheme which concluded on Sunday, 18 November [2024]. The decision was slammed widely, including by Nottingham City Council leader {{abbr|Councillor|Cllr}} Neghat Khan, Nottingham MPs [[Nadia Whittome]] and [[Lilian Greenwood]] and Nottinghamshire Live Editor Natalie Fahy.}}</ref>

;2025
{{As of|2025|08|19}} [[East Midlands Railway]] (EMR) began inhibiting entrance/exit during evenings and early morning, from platforms 1‒6.  Gates between platforms 1‒6 and the footbridge were planned to be closed between 19:00‒06:00 every evening.<ref name="watson-2025-08-19">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r4xl2vnp2o|title=Headache over access and security at railway station|work=BBC News|date=2025-07-31|access-date=2025-08-19|first=Greig|last=Watson|quote=A "unique" bridge at Nottingham station is causing train operator East Midlands Railway (EMR) an ongoing headache … The bridge carries a legally-protected right of way from Station Street to Queens Road … but it also gives access to all platforms. … right of way was put over the bridge after an earlier crossing further down the tracks was demolished. … From 18 August [2025], the time the stairs are fenced off will be extended from the current 23:00 to 05:00, to between 19:00 and 06:00. … Michael O'Callaghan-Staples, head of station experience for EMR, said … had discussed the right of way itself with the city council. "We have engaged with Nottingham City Council about the rerouting or closure of the public right of way," he added. "But that is a complex process and we continue to work with our partners at Nottingham City Council to see what the opportunities are for that space." … Steve Jones, from [[Railfuture|Rail Future]], … said: "Our solution, and one we have been calling for for some time, is there is a need for another bridge at Nottingham station, at the eastern end. … This would be a big investment but if it avoids the £1.1m loss EMR claims, it has a good business case and it would, with lifts the current bridge lacks, be an enormous benefit to passengers."}}</ref><ref name="pridmore-2025-08-19">{{cite news|url=https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/nottingham-railway-station-footbridge-change-10434532|title=Nottingham railway station footbridge change comes into force as city leader calls for 'another way'|work=Nottingham Evening Post|first=Oliver|last=Pridmore|date=2025-08-19|access-date=2025-08-19|quote=overnight restrictions being introduced on Monday [18 August 2025] are set to be in place every night, from 7pm until 6am. … footbridge is well used as a public right of way between Station Street and Queen's Road … will remain open for this purpose overnight. … looser version of original plans, which would have stopped access to most platforms 24/7 … Neghat Khan, Nottingham City Council's leader … said: … "If nobody's on the train checking your ticket, then what's stopping you?" … ticket barriers at the bottom of the footbridge would require significant resources and create congestion.  East Midlands Railway also says it is "legally unable" to carry out ticket checks or place obstructions on the footbridge itself given that it remains a public right of way.}}</ref><ref name="emr-2025-08-11">{{cite twitter|user=EastMidRailway|number=1954830156402704788|date=2025-08-11|access-date=2025-08-20|author-link=East Midlands Railway|title=From Monday 18 August [2025], the platform access restrictions for the centre footbridge at Nottingham station will be changing from 11pm‒5am to 7pm‒6am. … Station signage, wayfinding and guidance for access to nearby taxis and services is being improved. The public footpath between Queen's Road and Station Street will remain open.}}</ref><ref name="emr-pr-2025-07-28">{{cite pressrelease|url=https://news.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/news/nottingham-stations-footbridge-to-access-restrictions-at-nottingham-station-to-tackle-fare-evasion-and-improve-safety|title=Nottingham station's centre footbridge: Hours of platform access to be amended to combat fare evasion and improve safety|date=2025-07-28|access-date=2025-08-20|publisher=[[East Midlands Railway]]|quote=Despite these changes, the footbridge will continue to serve as a public right of way [[24/7 service|24/7]], maintaining access between Station Street and Queen's Road, including connections [[Nottingham Express Transit|to the tram network]].}}</ref>

====Footbridge====
[[File:Nottingham railway station MMB 87 170103 222XXX.jpg|thumb|right|2012: Looking north-west over Nottingham station from newly-built car park; the bridge carrying footpath 28 is mid-shot; beyond it work has just started on the new tram bridge]]
Halfway along the platforms is an overhead footbridge, running from Station Street (at the north) and the tram stop link over station platforms 1–6<!--previously numbered platforms 1‒5--> to platform 7<!--previously numbered platform 6--> and car parking facilities at Queen's Road (at the south).<ref name="development-brief-2004">{{cite web |url=http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=708&p=0 |title=Brief Description of Station Site |work=Nottingham Station Development Brief |date=27 July 2004 |access-date=27 May 2012 |publisher=Nottingham City Council |editor-first=Richard |editor-last=Wood |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310145053/http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=708&p=0 |archive-date=10 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|2}} The footbridge carries footpath 28, the only traffic-free crossing over the Midland Main Line in Nottingham.<ref name="inquiry-decision-notice"/>{{rp|4}} Footpath 28 was previously diverted from the demolished footbridge 21 to the present footbridge 20<small>B</small> during the 1990s. The original route formed part of the Trent Bridge Footway,<ref name="inquiry-decision-notice"/>{{rp|4}} between the centre of Nottingham and the river crossing at [[Trent Bridge (bridge)|Trent Bridge]]. In 2004 Nottingham City Council stated that right of way over the footbridge would be closed, following the completion of a multi-storey car park.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|4|quote=Once the multi storey car park is built the public right of way from Queens Road across to Station Street using the existing footbridge will be closed.}}

Alternative pavement improvement works were scheduled for Queens Road in February 2009.<ref name="joint-2008-10">{{cite report |url=http://itsacr02a.nottscc.gov.uk/apps/pr/diary/memdiary.nsf/0/b61a5c3e48154ca3802572cd00364d19/$FILE/R08_Rail%20issues%20final.pdf |author=Joint Officer Steering Group |date=24 October 2008 |publisher=Nottingham City Council; Nottingham County Council |editor1-first=Jim |editor1-last=Bamford |editor2-first=Chris |editor2-last=Carter |work=Joint Committee on Strategic Planning & Transport |title=Rail Issues Update |access-date=29 May 2012}}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>{{rp|2}} During 2008–2012, BPR Architects submitted designs for automated ticket gate (ATG) barrier installations at {{stnlnk|St Pancras}}, {{stnlnk|Sheffield}}, {{stnlnk|Derby}} and Nottingham station concourses plus both ends of Nottingham footbridge 20<small>B</small>.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plan4.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Application%20Form-791296.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=791296&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME6&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=3 |work=East Midlands ATG Enabling Works (EMT) |ref=0847-01 -201sh06 p 01 |title=Document Issues Sheet |format=Schedule |page=2 |author=BPR Architects}}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>{{rp|2}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Fare-dodge-crackdown-train-station/story-12192882-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505093352/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Fare-dodge-crackdown-train-station/story-12192882-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Fare-dodge crackdown at train station |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=26 January 2009 |access-date=27 May 2012}}</ref> BPR's design included four ATG barriers on the north end of the footbridge itself, plus a new enclosure and four barriers between the car park and platform 6 at the south end.<ref name="10/00885/LLIS1">{{cite web |url=http://plan4.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/WAM/pas/showCaseFile.do?appNumber=10/00885/LLIS1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223215148/http://plan4.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/WAM/pas/showCaseFile.do?appNumber=10/00885/LLIS1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 December 2012 |quote=Installation of automatic ticket gates on footbridge and erection of entrance enclosure to house automatic ticket gates to south of footbridge with associated CCTV cameras. |title=10/00885/LLIS1 |date=10 May 2010 |access-date=26 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://plan4.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Site%20Location%20Plan-791298.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=791298&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME6&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=1 |title=Proposed Entrance Enclosure General Arrangement |author=NWW |editor=PBP |date=24 February 2010 |access-date=27 May 2012 |ref=P04 |id=drawing 0847-01/53 |publisher=Nottingham City Council |format=drawing}}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> A procedure to permanently stop-up the right-of-way commenced on 19 March 2010,<ref name="inquiry-decision-notice"/>{{rp|1}} A planning application for barriers was filed on 29 March 2010 and withdrawn again on 10 May 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plan4.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Decision%20Notice-794819.pdf?extension=.pdf&wmTransparency=0&id=794819&wmLocation=0&location=VOLUME6&contentType=application%2Fpdf&wmName=&pageCount=1 |title=Withdrawal of Planning Proposal |work=Listed Building Consent |issue=10/00885/LLIS1 |quote=Installation of automatic ticket gates on footbridge and erection of entrance enclosure to house automatic ticket gates to south of footbridge with associated CCTV cameras. … In accordance with your request, I am treating the above application as withdrawn.}}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Following a [[public inquiry]] held during 8–9 November 2011, the stopping up order was denied; the inspector summing up:<ref name="inquiry-decision-notice">{{cite report |url=http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/pins/row/documents/fps_q3060_5_3.pdf|issue=FPS/Q3060/5/3 |title=Order Decision |date=13 December 2011 |work=Nottingham City Council (Nottingham Midland Station Footpath No.28) Stopping Up Order 2010 SUO&nbsp;5015 |publisher=[[The Planning Inspectorate]] |first=Susan |last=Doran |access-date=27 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601191748/http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/pins/row/documents/fps_q3060_5_3.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/countryside/rightsofway/onlinerow/onlinerowc#city_nottingham |title=City of Nottingham Council |work=Online Rights of Way C |date=13 December 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012 |publisher=The Planning Inspectorate}}</ref>{{rp|8}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ramblers.org.uk/mediacentre/archive/2011/Ramblers+jubilant+over+saved+station+path |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723032631/http://www.ramblers.org.uk/mediacentre/archive/2011/Ramblers%2Bjubilant%2Bover%2Bsaved%2Bstation%2Bpath |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 July 2012 |title=Ramblers jubilant over saved station path |date=15 December 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012 |work=Press release archive |publisher=[[The Ramblers]] |format=press release}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Historic-footpath-saved-walkers/story-14155089-detail/story.html|title=Historic footpath saved by walkers |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=16 December 2011 |access-date=28 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322173256/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/Historic-footpath-saved-walkers/story-14155089-detail/story.html |archive-date=22 March 2013}}</ref>{{blockquote|Footpath 28 is unique and offers an experience which the alternative, replacement route cannot – a traffic free route within the city, which in addition provides a convenient link for a large number of users to and from residential areas, work places and other facilities. It provides a short but valued opportunity for pedestrians to get away from trafficked routes, with the added amenity value of an historic environment. On balancing the merits and demerits of the stopping up order, I find that the disadvantages and loss likely to arise as a result of the stopping up of the footpath to members of the public generally are such that permanent closure of Footpath 28 to the public is not justified. Thus, I conclude that the Order should not be confirmed.|author=Susan Doran BA Hons MIPROW, Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs|source=Decision Notice §44, 13 December 2011<ref name="inquiry-decision-notice"/>{{rp|8}}}}

The footbridge was scheduled to be closed temporarily in November 2017; the reasons given were "making improvements" and "essential maintenance work".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/Disruption-Information/We-are-making-improvements-to-the-Footbridge-at-Nottingham-Station/ |title=We are making improvements to the Footbridge at Nottingham Station |date=6 November 2017 |access-date=8 November 2017 |publisher=East Midlands Trains |quote=From Monday 20th November until Friday 24th November, the middle footbridge will be closed off while essential maintenance work takes place … to cross between the platforms, access the tram stop or reach Station Street will need to use the main station stairs at the end of the platforms. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108204858/https://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/Disruption-Information/We-are-making-improvements-to-the-Footbridge-at-Nottingham-Station/ |archive-date=8 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/footbridge-nottingham-train-station-close-767912 |title=Footbridge at Nottingham Train Station to close for five days |work=[[Nottingham Evening Post]] |date=13 November 2017 |access-date=29 November 2017 |first=Jamie |last=Barlow |quote=footbridge will be closed from November 20 to November 24}}</ref>

===New bridge and tram stop===
To facilitate the [[Nottingham Express Transit]]'s phase two extension into the south of the city, it was decided to have the tram line cross the station on the line of the original [[Great Central Railway]] viaduct, which had been closed to passenger trains in 1967 and goods in 1973. This required a bridge, crossing from the existing Station Street stop, which closed, over both the station and Queen's Road.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|5,8}}<ref name="railwatch-2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.railwatch.org.uk/backtrack/rw110/rw110p14.pdf |title=NET Forward |first=Paul |last=Clark |editor-first=Anthony |editor-last=Kay |work=Railwatch |issue=January 2007 |date=7 January 2007 |publisher=[[Railfuture]] |page=16 |quote=exactly on the same alignment as the old Great Central Bridge closed in the early 1970s! |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924084442/http://www.railwatch.org.uk/backtrack/rw110/rw110p14.pdf|archive-date=24 September 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite report |chapter-url=http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/netphase2/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=22327&p=0 |title=Report to the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government |first1=Robert M |last1=Barker |first2=Alan |last2=Novitzky |date=15 August 2008 |publisher=The Planning Inspectorate |work=The Nottingham Express Transit System Order Application for Deemed Planning Permission Applications for Listed Building and Conservation Area Constent |chapter=The Routes – Common Section |page=14 |quote=route would pass over the railway station on new viaduct, on the line of the former Great Central Railway |issue=TWA/3/1/304 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123801/http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/netphase2/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=22327&p=0 |archive-date=13 April 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=28 May 2012}}</ref>

Construction of the tram bridge started on 10 April 2012 and the bridge was jacked into place in May 2013. The tram bridge design is a [[Warren truss]] design made of {{convert|508|to|711|mm|in|abbr=on}} diameter steel tubes.<ref name="duguid-2010"/>{{rp|6}} The main bridge is {{convert|14.53|m|ft|abbr=on}} wide between the truss centrelines, with two equal spans of {{convert|52.12|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The bridge is officially called the Karlsruhe Friendship Bridge, after Nottingham's twin city of [[Karlsruhe]], [[Germany]].<ref name="duguid-2010">{{cite conference |url=http://www.bridges.mottmac.com/files/page/170722/IABSE___Nottingham_Station_Bridge_UK___B._Duguid.pdf |title=Nottingham Station Bridge, UK|conference=34th International Symposium on Bridge and Structural Engineering |location=Venice |date=15 March 2010 |access-date=27 May 2012 |first=Brian |last=Duguid |publisher=Mott MacDonald<!--|track=Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415110531/http://www.bridges.mottmac.com/files/page/170722/IABSE___Nottingham_Station_Bridge_UK___B._Duguid.pdf |archive-date=15 April 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|6}}<ref name="samuel-tram-design">{{cite news |url=http://www.rail.co/2012/05/10/new-nottingham-tram-design-unveiled/ |title=New Nottingham tram design unveiled |date=10 May 2012 |first=A. |last=Samuel |work=Rail.co |access-date=28 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123145344/http://www.rail.co/2012/05/10/new-nottingham-tram-design-unveiled/ |archive-date=23 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/netphase2/index.aspx?articleid=18186 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805163035/http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/netphase2/index.aspx?articleid=18186 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 August 2012 |title=Extending NET over Nottingham Station |work=NET Phase Two |date=10 April 2012 |access-date=27 May 2012 |publisher=Nottingham City Council}}<!-- Not on Internet Archive Wayback Machine--></ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22553700 |title=Nottingham tram bridge 'inched' into position |publisher=BBC News |date=17 May 2013 |access-date=6 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608055404/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22553700 |archive-date=8 June 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The new Nottingham Station tram stop was constructed on the bridge, providing interchange with the railway network. It replaced the previous Station Street tram stop, opened in 2004, which was located approximately {{convert|100|m|ft}} to the north. The new stop was opened on 27 July 2015 and the former stop closed at the same time, although the intention was to reopen the Station Street access building as a second access to the new stop once it has been refurbished. The new stop served as the new southern terminus of the system until the rest of NET's phase two opened, at which point it became a through station, with trams continuing to new termini in [[Chilwell]] and [[Clifton, Nottinghamshire|Clifton]].<ref name=ttssts>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetrams.co.uk/net/stops/Station_Street |title=Station Street tram stop |work=The Trams |access-date=5 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826075233/http://www.thetrams.co.uk/net/stops/Station_Street |archive-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=netntsfs>{{cite web |url=http://www.thetram.net/new-tram-stop-for-station.aspx#Newtramstopforstation |title=New tram stop for station |publisher=Nottingham Express Transit |access-date=5 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921141555/http://www.thetram.net/new-tram-stop-for-station.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Nottingham Express Transit Phase 2 opens |url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/nottingham-express-transit-phase-2-opens.html |work=Railway Gazette |publisher=DVV Media UK Ltd |date=25 August 2015 |access-date=25 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910200306/http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/nottingham-express-transit-phase-2-opens.html |archive-date=10 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===2018 fire===
On the morning of 12 January 2018, a fire extensively damaged the station buildings. [[Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service]] received a call at 6:25&nbsp;am reporting that a fire had started in the women's toilet in the newly built section of the station.<ref name="nep-20180112-0748">{{cite news |url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/what-know-far-large-fire-1047757 |title=What we know so far about the large fire at Nottingham Station |format=07:48 AM |first=Gemma |last=Toulson |date=12 January 2018 |access-date=12 January 2018 |work=[[Nottingham Evening Post]] |quote=Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service was called at 6.25am to reports of a fire in the ladies toilet on a platform}}</ref> The fire was attended by ten fire engines and 50 firefighters. Firefighters from [[Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service]] also attended, bringing the total to 60.<ref>{{cite twitter |number=951727105473175552 |user=nottsfire |author=[[Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service]] |date=12 January 2018 |access-date=12 January 2018 |title=There are now 10 fire engines in attendance approximately 50 fire fighters fighting the fire at the #NottinghamTrainStation}}</ref>

After the fire began, it spread upwards into the roof of the newly built section of the station, along the station concourse and into the historic station building.<ref name="breese-20180112">{{cite news |url=https://nottstv.com/serious-fire-closes-nottingham-station-disrupts-s-across-city/ |title=Serious fire closes Nottingham Station and disrupts travel services across the city|work=[[Notts TV]] |first=Christ |last=Breese |date=12 January 2018 |access-date=12 January 2018 |quote=Bryn Coleman, incident commander for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, told BBC Breakfast: "Crews arrived at approximately 6.30am to a significant fire in the new section of the train station. There was a fire in the concourse area and crews reported a severe fire in some of the blocks there. Unfortunately, the fire is spreading to the roof void of the new section of the train station and it's now travelling across the main concourse area across the main lines into Nottingham train station."}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/nottingham-train-station-fire-disruption-1047660?service=responsive |title=Nottingham train station closed as major fire brought under control |date=12 January 2018 |access-date=12 January 2018 |work=[[Nottingham Evening Post]]}}</ref> There was extensive disruption to trains in the East Midlands area.

[[British Transport Police]] stated, later the same day, that they were treating the fire as [[arson]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.btp.police.uk/r/15049/update__fire_at_nottingham_railway_station_being_ |title=BTP – Update: Fire at Nottingham railway station being treated as arson |website=British Transport Police |access-date=14 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319044740/http://media.btp.police.uk/r/15049/update__fire_at_nottingham_railway_station_being_ |archive-date=19 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and, on 2 February 2018, police reported that a 33-year-old woman had been arrested on suspicion of arson.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.sky.com/story/woman-held-on-suspicion-of-arson-after-fire-at-nottingham-train-station-11233047 |title=Woman held on suspicion of arson after huge fire at Nottingham train station |publisher=Sky News |date=2 February 2018 |access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref> In August 2019, a 34-year-old drug addict received a two-year jail sentence, having admitted to accidentally setting fire to a bin while using heroin and crack.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.sky.com/story/gemma-peat-jailed-for-25-months-over-nottingham-station-fire-11784471 |title=Gemma Peat jailed for 25 months over Nottingham station fire |publisher=Sky News |date=13 August 2019}}</ref>

In February 2018, [[East Midlands Trains]] named one of their recently transferred [[British Rail Class 43 (HST)|Class 43]] power cars (43467) ''Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and British Transport Police Nottingham'' after their assistance during the fire.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/news/Special-train-naming-recognises-valuable-support-of-emergency-services-during-Nottingham-station-fire |title=Special train naming recognises valuable support of emergency services during Nottingham station fire |date=6 February 2018 |access-date=26 March 2018 |archive-date=27 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327213033/https://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/news/Special-train-naming-recognises-valuable-support-of-emergency-services-during-Nottingham-station-fire/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Layout and facilities==
===Layout===
[[File:Nottingham railway station MMB B8.jpg|right|thumb|The concourse in the old porte-cochère]]

[[File:Nottingham train station hall.jpg|thumb|Nottingham ticket hall]]

The station is aligned approximately east to west, at the southern edge of the city centre, with Station Street to the north and Queen's Road to the south. At the western end of the station, the tracks are spanned by Carrington Street and the station's main entrance is on the eastern side of this street. Since the station's redevelopment, the entrances from Carrington Street open into a concourse that spans the station from north to south. This occupies what was once the station's [[porte-cochère]] and provides a large pedestrian circulation area, along with several retail sites.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|3–5}}<ref name=nrnotplan>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_NOT/plan.html?rtnloc=NOT |title=Nottingham Station Plan |work=National Rail Enquiries |publisher=Train Information Services Limited |access-date=3 September 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304094044/http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_NOT/plan.html?rtnloc=NOT |url-status=dead}}</ref>

The booking hall for the railway station opens off the centre of eastern side of the concourse and, in turn, gives access via [[ticket barrier]]s to a pedestrian overbridge with [[stair]]s and [[elevator|lift]]s down to the railway platforms. A second concourse opens off the main concourse at the southern end of its eastern side; this runs parallel and to the south of the platforms, giving access by stairs, lifts and [[escalator]]s to the tram stop, the station car park, [[taxi rank]], vehicular pick-up and drop-off points, and Queen Street. The tram stop spans the station from north to south to the east of the main entrance, at a higher level than the concourse, and east of that a second footbridge links the platforms; it carries the previously referred-to footpath 28.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|3–5}}<ref name=nrnotplan/>

[[File:Nottingham Midland rail station piano 1141.jpg|thumb|Nottingham station piano]]

The station's multi-storey car park lies south of the platforms, north of Queen Street, and east of the tram bridge. It provides parking for about 800 cars and the covered area below it houses the station's new taxi rank, pick-up and drop-off points, relocated from the old porte-cochère.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|3–5}}<ref name=nrnotplan/>

[[File:Carrington Street and Nottingham Station - geograph.org.uk - 4342001.jpg|thumb|Carrington Street and Nottingham Station]]

===Railway platforms===
[[File:Nottingham railway station MMB 26 222103.jpg|right|thumb|Platform 7 looking across to platform 6 (with train) and up to the concourse]]
[[File:Nottingham Railway Station (5).jpg|thumb|Stained-glass windows at Nottingham station]]
The railway platforms lie at a lower level than the station entrance and are within a [[ticket barrier]] enforced [[paid area]]. From north to south, the station has two [[island platform]]s and a single [[side platform]], with a total of seven numbered platform faces.<ref name=Trackmaps6A>{{cite book |last1=Yonge |first1=John |last2=Padgett |first2=David |last3=Szwenk |first3=John |editor-last=Bridge |editor-first=Mike |title=Railway Track Diagrams 4: Midlands & North West |edition=3rd |date=August 2013 |orig-year=1990 |publisher=Trackmaps |location=Bradford on Avon |isbn=978-0-9549866-7-4 |at=map 6A}}</ref> Each platform is linked to the main entrance concourse by stairs and lifts and to the second footbridge by stairs only.<ref name=nrnotplan/>

The northern of the two island platforms has a bi-directionally signalled through platform face on each side,{{clarify|date=December 2018}} numbered 1 and 3, and an east-facing bay, numbered 2. The two through platforms are long enough to accommodate fifteen and fourteen-coach trains, whilst the bay can accommodate a four-coach train.<ref name=Trackmaps6A />

The middle island platform also is bi-directionally signalled through platform faces on each side, numbered 4 and 6, together with a west-facing terminal platform face, numbered 5. Platform 4 can accommodate a five-coach train, platform 5 a seven-coach train and platform 6 a fourteen-coach train.<ref name=Trackmaps6A />

The southern side platform is numbered 7 and can accommodate a thirteen-coach train. Sufficient space exists to the south of this platform to add a second platform face, effectively converting this side platform into an island platform, if traffic increases to justify it.<ref name="development-brief-2004"/>{{rp|7}}<ref name=Trackmaps6A />

===Tram stop===
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| type               = [[Nottingham Express Transit]] tram stop
| style              = Nottingham Express Transit
| image              = Nottingham Station tram stop by chrisw on 2015-08-02 13.58.23.jpg
| address            = [[Nottingham]], [[City of Nottingham]]
| country            = England
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| operator           = [[Nottingham Express Transit]]
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| structure          = Viaduct
| platform           = 2
| tracks             = 2
| accessible         = Step-free access to platform
| owned              = [[Nottingham Express Transit]]
| years              = 9 March 2004
| events             = Opened as ''Station Street''
| years1             = 27 July 2015
| events1            = Resited and renamed ''Nottingham Station''
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The new tram stop is positioned at a higher level than the station entrance and lies at a right angle to, and above, the railway platforms. It is designed as a through stop, with two [[side platform]]s flanking each side of the double [[tramway track]]. Like all NET stops, pedestrian access between the platforms is permitted on the level via crossings at each end of the platforms. [[Ticket machine]]s are located on both platforms and the stop lies outside the [[ticket barrier]]-enforced [[paid area]] of the railway station.<ref name=netntsfs/>

The tram stop is connected directly to the railway station's main concourse (and the railway platforms) via the new side concourse, with stairs, escalators and lifts bridging the height difference. A direct access is also provided to the station's multi-storey car park. The former access from Station Street is also still available, accessible via a walkway running parallel to the railway tracks.<ref name=netntsfs/>

North of the stop, the tramway tracks pass over Station Street and through the abandoned platforms of the former Station Street stop, before proceeding along the old [[Great Central Main Line]] viaduct and eventually joining an on-street section through the centre of Nottingham. South of the new stop, the tracks pass over Queen's Road before descending a ramp and re-joining the city's streets at ground level. The junction between the Clifton and Chilwell branches of the NET system lies just beyond this point.<ref name=neteytn/>

==Services==
===National Rail services===
Monday to Friday off-peak service patterns as of June 2024 in trains per hour (tph) and trains per day (tpd):

'''East Midlands Railway:'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Timetables {{!}} EMR |url=https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/timetables |access-date=17 February 2024 |website=East Midlands Railway}}</ref>

* 2 tph to [[St Pancras railway station|London St Pancras International]] (1 fast, 1 semi-fast) via [[Leicester railway station|Leicester]] and [[Kettering railway station|Kettering]]
* 1 tph to [[Matlock railway station|Matlock]] via [[Derby railway station|Derby]] and [[Ambergate railway station|Ambergate]]
* 1 tph to [[Crewe railway station|Crewe]] via Derby and [[Stoke-on-Trent railway station|Stoke-on-Trent]]
* 1 tph to [[Newark Castle railway station|Newark Castle]] via [[Lowdham railway station|Lowdham]] (stopping)
* 1 tph to Leicester via [[Beeston railway station|Beeston]], [[Loughborough railway station|Loughborough]] and [[Barrow-upon-Soar railway station|Barrow-upon-Soar]] (stopping)
* 1 tph to [[Lincoln railway station|Lincoln Central]] via Newark Castle, of which 1 tp2h is extended to [[Grimsby Town railway station|Grimsby Town]] via [[Market Rasen railway station|Market Rasen]], of which 2 tpd are extended to [[Cleethorpes railway station|Cleethorpes]]
* 1 tph to [[Skegness railway station|Skegness]] via [[Grantham railway station|Grantham]] and [[Boston railway station|Boston]]
* 1 tph to [[Worksop railway station|Worksop]] via [[Hucknall station|Hucknall]] and [[Mansfield Woodhouse railway station|Mansfield Woodhouse]]
* 1 tph to [[Liverpool Lime Street railway station|Liverpool Lime Street]] via [[Sheffield station|Sheffield]], [[Manchester Piccadilly station|Manchester Piccadilly]] and [[Warrington Central railway station|Warrington Central]]
* 1 tph to [[Norwich railway station|Norwich]] via Grantham, [[Peterborough railway station|Peterborough]] and [[Ely railway station|Ely]]

'''CrossCountry:'''<ref>{{Cite web| title=Timetable Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff | url=https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/media/7352/book2-v3-web-version-1.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203144901/https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/media/7352/book2-v3-web-version-1.pdf | archive-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>

* 1 tph to [[Birmingham New Street railway station|Birmingham New Street]] via Derby
* 1 tph to [[Cardiff Central railway station|Cardiff Central]] via Derby, Birmingham New Street and [[Gloucester railway station|Gloucester]]

'''Northern:'''<ref>{{cite web |title=December 2023 Timetable Changes {{!}} Northern |url=https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timetables/timetable-change |access-date=17 February 2024 |website=Northern Railway}}</ref>

* 1 tph to [[Leeds railway station|Leeds]] via Sheffield, [[Barnsley Interchange|Barnsley]] and [[Wakefield Kirkgate railway station|Wakefield Kirkgate]]

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{{s-rail-national|previous=Bulwell|toc=East Midlands Railway|route=[[Robin Hood Line]]|rowsmid=2|rows2=2}}
{{s-rail-national|previous=Hucknall|hidemid=yes|hide2=yes|toc=}}
{{s-rail-national|previous=Beeston|toc=East Midlands Railway|route=Crewe-Newark Castle|next=Carlton}}
{{s-rail-national|previous=Ilkeston|toc=Northern Trains|route=[[Hallam Line|Nottingham-Leeds]]}}
{{End}}

===Nottingham Express Transit services===
Nottingham station is on the common section of the [[Nottingham Express Transit|NET]], where line 1, between [[Hucknall station|Hucknall]] and [[Toton Lane tram stop|Toton Lane]], and line 2, between [[Phoenix Park tram stop|Phoenix Park]] and [[Clifton South tram stop|Clifton South]], operate together. The two branches to Toton Lane and Clifton South split to the south of the station, while sharing track to the north into the city centre. Trams on each line run at a frequency of between four and eight trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.<ref name=neteytn>{{cite web |url=http://thetram.net/Userfiles/PDFs/ExtendIng%20your%20tram%20network_AMENDED%20copy%20text.pdf |title=Extending your Tram Service |publisher=Nottingham Express Transit |access-date=18 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807090648/http://www.thetram.net/Userfiles/PDFs/ExtendIng%20your%20tram%20network_AMENDED%20copy%20text.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

{{Adjacent stations|noclear=y
|system1=Nottingham Express Transit
|line1=1|left1=Lace Market|right1=Meadows Way West
|line2=2|left2=Lace Market|right2=Queens Walk
}}

==See also==
*[[Nottingham Victoria railway station]] (1890 to 1967)
*[[Nottingham Carrington Street railway station]] (1839 to 1848)
*[[Carrington railway station]] (1899 to 1928)
*[[Grade II* listed buildings in Nottinghamshire]]
*[[Listed buildings in Nottingham (Bridge ward)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Nottingham station}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125537/http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/EMTrains/YourDestinations/Nottingham.htm Nottingham Train Station Information]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060221233355/http://nottingham.openguides.org/?Nottingham_Train_Station Nottingham Train Station – The Open Guide to Nottingham]

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{{Railway stations in Nottinghamshire}}
{{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway}}
{{Railway stations served by Northern Trains}}
{{Railway stations served by CrossCountry}}

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