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With all due respect to the contributor, I believe the photograph claiming to show the location of Bingham Road Station (BRS) is incorrect, as is the position indicated in the blue circle on the OS map. That circle is where the trackbed passes under the A52 Bingham by-pass and the photo I suggest is looking South East towards Barnstone. BRS was on an embankment immediately south of the point where the old A52 road passed under a bridge as was the whole of the line back to Saxondale Junction, not in a cutting as shown. The embankment started at Saxondale Junction with the Nottingham Grantham line, passing over the A46 on a bridge (long demolished) and then passed across a field before crossing the old A52 on the bridge mentioned above. The whole of the embankment was swept away when the fields were developed for housing. The new A46 dual carriageway presently being constructed (2011) has bulldozed through the remains of the embankment in order to get the new road under a new bridge on the Nottingham Grantham line, also on an embankment.

The stationmaster's house at the old BRS is still there and the embankment beyond the odl A52 has been converted into a cycle path and walkway. The embankment merges into the cutting that took the railway through Toothill and under the new A52 Bingham by-pass. The site of BRS was where the railway passed over the "yellow" road in the upper right corner of the OS map.

I regularly travelled through Bingham in the 1950s and 60s as I lived in Aslockton and have made frequent return visits to the area. I also regulary tow my caravan past the site of the embankments on the A46.