Castle Railway Station

Castle Railway Station is a disused railway station located in Newark on Trent, built in 1846 for the Midland Railway Company. The station is designed in the Italianate style and constructed from yellow brick with ashlar dressings, featuring hipped slate roofs and four ridge stacks. It has a plinth, chamfered quoins, a cornice, and a blocking course. The building is single storey with a nine-window range of eight-pane sashes, some of which are boarded up, arranged in a pattern of 1:2:3:2:1.

The entrance front features a three-bay projecting center with paired pilasters flanking the doorway and single pilasters at the corners. There is a central flat gable supported by scroll brackets. The entrance consists of a two-leaf door flanked by single windows, with two similar windows on either side, although the far right window is blocked. All these windows are topped with cornices and scroll brackets. At each end of the building, there is a half-round projection; the eastern one has a central two-leaf door with an overlight, flanked by single windows, while the western one has a blank central opening with a door and overlight towards the platform and a single window towards the entrance front.

On the platform side, which has a late 20th-century canopy, there is a pilastered center with four round-headed openings, each containing a two-leaf door, with the first from the left being blocked. All doors have blank fanlights above them. To the left, there are two bays flanked by double pilasters, with three moulded segment-headed recesses containing a blank window flanked by single doors. To the right, there are three similar moulded recesses, and beyond these, on either side, there is a set-back single bay, with the eastern bay containing a window and the western bay featuring a door with an overlight.

Inside, the station has a central booking hall with a cornice and a round-cornered matchboard ticket office that includes three windows. The barrier and ticket racks remain in place, while the corridors and waiting room feature simple cornices. This station was among the first to be opened by the newly formed Midland Railway Company.