Transport Infrastructure
Mansfield has an excellent transport infrastructure in place to take advantage of its centre of the Country location.
Road
The M1 serves the town at Junctions 27, 28 and 29 providing excellent links to the town. The A617 and A1 provide invaluable north-south links, which are reinforced by the A38, A617 and A60.
Recent new road investment includes Mansfield's southern bypass linking the A60 Nottingham Road to Southwell Road West, and a western bypass in two sections; the first will link the A38 (King's Mill Road) to the A60 (Nottingham Road).
All the Midlands' big cities; Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, are within easy striking distance by road and the central location enables straightforward links to anywhere in the country. For travel information and help with planning routes please view the AA or RAC websites.
Rail
The Robin Hood Line connects Mansfield 7 days a week to the Nottingham and Worksop, and from here nationally. Nottingham also offers a direct service into London St. Pancras, which is home to Eurostar and services into Europe.
Full customs facilities are available at Sutton International Freight Terminal, just 10 minutes' drive from the town, which provides the major rail link to the Continent via the Channel Tunnel.
Air
Being located in the centre of the country, many airports are within easy reach. Mansfield's closest airport, East Midlands offers flights domestically, into Europe and worldwide, with complimentary services from the other airports. Additionally East Midlands airport also offers a large freight and cargo carrying capacity, and being located so close to Mansfield, UK transport costs will be kept to a minimum making expansion into Europe and beyond more affordable.
- East Midlands airport is located 27 miles away, around 40 minutes in normal traffic
- Doncaster-Sheffield airport is located 35 miles away, around 1 hour in normal traffic
- Birmingham airport is located 63 miles away, around 1hour 40 in normal traffic
- Manchester airport is located 70 miles away and can be reach in under two hours in normal traffic
- The London airports of Luton, Stanstead, Gatwick and Heathrow are also within easy reach.
Sea
Mansfield offers good access to the following ports of which all are within a two hours' drive of Mansfield. Ensuring freight, cargo and passenger shipments to Continental Europe and beyond are easily achieved.
- Grimsby
- Immingham
- Goole
- Hull
Bus
The bus infrastucture in Mansfield is well developed and connects smaller areas with the main service centre of Mansfield, the current bus network is operated by Stagecoach and Trent buses. There are also numerous services to other near-by towns and cities and nationally via the National Express.
The current open air bus station is due to be relocated next to the train station creating the new Transport Interchange. This will give Mansfield an excellent, high tech and transport hub which will serve the town and district into the future. More information on the Transport Interchange can be found under the Regeneration section of this website.
