There can be little doubt that Gedling Station is a building of significant social and historic interest nationally as it represents an important period of Britain’s industrial growth and development. Even more significant is its importance locally with its close connections to the local coal mining industry and pit communities.

Its greatest claim to fame, however, is a world famous literary connection as it is at Gedling Station that <strong>J.R.R Tolkien</strong> is thought to have alighted his train from Nottingham when visiting his aunt (Jane Neave) who lived at nearby Phoenix Farm. On one such occasion, in September of 1914, he stayed at Phoenix Farm where he wrote the poem <em>The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star</em> his first ‘middle-earth’ fragment. And the rest as they say ‘is history’.