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Introduction

This line is largely open. This railway ran from Derby to Leeds.






Dates

05/10/1840Manchester and Leeds Railway
Normanton to Hebden Bridge opened, worked by the North Midland Railway.
02/01/1842Railway Clearing House
The Railway Clearing House is established. Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, Great North of England Railway, Hull and Selby Railway, Leeds and Selby Railway, London and Birmingham Railway, Manchester and Leeds Railway, Midland Counties Railway, North Midland Railway and York and North Midland Railway join.
10/05/1844Midland Counties Railway Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway North Midland Railway Midland Railway
George Hudson encourages the Midland Counties Railway, Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway and North Midland Railway to merge to become the Midland Railway.
07/08/1850Great Northern Railway
Opened throughout. Route: London Maiden Lane (temporary terminus) to Boston to Lincoln (not via Peterborough to Retford) to Knottingley on North Midland Railway and not York itself.
  /  /1952Avenue Coking Works (Chesterfield)
New coking works built to the south of Chesterfield beside the North Midland Railway. This site formerly had a colliery and iron works, mostly closed but 1938.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Derby

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Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
At the north end of the tastefully restored Railway Terrace, which comprises houses built for railway employees in the 19th century, is the Brunswick ...
Ken Strachan 03/03/2023
Network Rail liveried HST Power Car 43062 stands in Derby Station on the rear of the New Measurement Train on the evening of 11 December 2008. The ...
David Pesterfield 11/12/2008
The Midland Railway Institute still stands opposite Derby station car park. I'm not convinced it had a pool hall as built. ...
Ken Strachan 03/03/2023
A down CrossCountry Voyager meets an up East Midlands Meridian at Derby on 4 May, while a Nottingham service approaches Etches Park in the background. ...
Ken Strachan 04/05/2015
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Derby Junction (MCR)

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Midland Counties Railway





Deby North Junction

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Midland Counties Railway





Nottingham Road

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Derby St Mary's Junction

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Little Eaton Junction

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Little Eaton Branch and Ripley Extension (Midland Railway)





Duffield

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An immaculate 52332 running round at Duffield in the Ecclesbourne Valley in April 2019. Loco built at Horwich in 1896. ...
Bruce McCartney 21/04/2019
The passenger loading from Matlock to Nottingham on a Saturday afternoon in September 2012 justified three coaches - curious, as one was fine going ...
Ken Strachan 15/09/2012
A sight I have waited 30 years to see - main line to branch line interchange at Duffield on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. see image 40048 ...
Ken Strachan 15/09/2012
Despite the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway having no physical connection with Network Rail, a 'junction' station has been created at Duffield, ...
Malcolm Chattwood 14/08/2012
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Duffield [1st]

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Belper [1st]

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Belper

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Ambergate South Junction

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Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway





Ambergate [2nd]

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Ambergate [1st]

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Ambergate North Junction

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Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway





Crich Junction

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Ambergate to Pye Bridge and Codnor Park (Midland Railway)





Wingfield

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Stretton

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Clay Cross Town Goods

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Clay Cross South Junction

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Pye Bridge to Clay Cross (Midland Railway)
The pink liveried one, 66587, passing Clay Cross with 6M73 Doncaster to Toton engineers service on 23rd November 2023. On the right, back in the 80s, ...
Roger Geach 23/11/2023
Peak No. 54 'The Royal Pioneer Corps' approaches Clay Cross South Junction, where it will take the Derby line, at about 09.15 on a July morning ...
Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971
Peak class 45 no D61 The Royal Army Ordnance Corps passes Clay Cross South Junction south of Chesterfield with a down express in July 1971. If ...
Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971
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Clay Cross

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A very gloomy afternoon at Clay Cross as 66616 passes with 6Z80 Banbury to Tunstead empties on 23rd November 2023. The loop on the right has been out ...
Roger Geach 23/11/2023
66770, with the empties from Tinsley Yard to Bardon Hill, passes Tupton Bridge at Clay Cross. On the right was once Avenue Sidings, now a nature ...
Roger Geach 23/11/2023
A partially fitted coal train bound (probably) for Toton Yard trundles along the up slow line at Clay Cross in 1971 with Brush Type 2 No. 5806 in ...
Bill Jamieson 19/07/1971
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Clay Cross North Junction

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Avenue Crossing Junction

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Chesterfield [1st]

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Chesterfield

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EMT Meridian DEMU 222019 calls at Chesterfield with a service to Sheffield on 05 February 2019. ...
John McIntyre 05/02/2019
158817, working to Leeds via Barnsley, seen arriving at Chesterfield station on 13th October 2016. ...
David Bosher 13/10/2016
Former LMS Jubilee class no.45596 'Bahamas' departing from Chesterfield on 5 February 2019 whilst travelling with support coach from Tyseley to ...
John McIntyre 05/02/2019
Meeting at Chesterfield. View looks south. ...
Ewan Crawford 19/11/2006
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Tapton Junction

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A Peak takes the Pengham FLT to Portobello FLT containers from fast to slow line at Tapton Jct, just north of Chesterfield, on 20 July 1971. The train ...
Bill Jamieson 20/07/1971
Peak No. 54 'The Royal Pioneer Corps' speeds south at Tapton Junction, just north of Chesterfield, on 20 July 1971 (the signal box is visible ...
Bill Jamieson 20/07/1971
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Dunston and Barlow South Junction

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Dunston and Barlow North Junction

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Whittington [1st]

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Whittington [2nd]

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Staveley South Junction

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Barrow Hill [1st]

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Barrow Hill [2nd]

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Furness Railway





Foxlow Junction

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Peak 45066 (ex D114) brings a partially fitted inter-regional freight, probably bound for Tinsley Yard, past Foxlow Junction near Barrow Hill in May ...
Bill Jamieson 14/05/1977
Tinsley based Brush Type 2 No. 5558 passes Foxlow Junction on the Midland 'Old Road' with 8V63, the 1115 Tinsley to Severn Tunnel Junction working. ...
Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971
Class 47 no 1556 with the fully-fitted 0901 Scunthorpe to Newport Alexandra Park Junction, comprising rolled steel sections on bogie bolster wagons. ...
Bill Jamieson 20/09/1971
EE Type 3 No. 37 133 trundles southwards between Foxlow Junction (the base of the signalbox there is visible through the bridge at top right) and ...
Bill Jamieson 30/05/1974
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Eckington [1st]

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Eckington and Renishaw

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Killamarsh West

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Killamarsh Branch Sidings Junction

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Beighton (MR)

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North Staveley Colliery Junction

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Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway)





Woodhouse Mill

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Treeton

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66053 on a Rotherham to Cardiff Tidal Metals train at Treeton in 2008. Trees grow on what were the sidings on the left. ...
Roger Geach 23/07/2008
Treeton Junction, eastern entry point to Tinsley Yard. The connection may re-open with the redevelopment of the yard. View from above former station. ...
Ewan Crawford 18/11/2006
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Treeton Junction

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Sheffield District Railway





Treeton North Junction

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Tinsley Marshalling Yard (British Railways)





Rotherham Masborough

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Sheffield and Rotherham Railway
Extract from the blue pages of the Scottish Region timetable for winter 1960-61. I would say it was pushing it a bit to call a train that takes over ...
David Panton 12/09/1960
A class 47 restarts a northbound tank train at Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981 following a stop for a crew change. See image 29803 ...
John Furnevel 04/05/1981
View south from Rotherham Masboro in October 2014, with the Midland Railway old main line to Chesterfield, bypassing Sheffield, on the left and the ...
David Pesterfield 13/10/2014
Bescot class 47 no 47386 brings a train of 100t oil tanks under Coronation Bridge and north through Rotherham Masborough station in May 1981. The ...
John Furnevel 04/05/1981
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Parkgate and Rawmarsh

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The rear of an InterCity 125 HST standing at the former Parkgate & Rawmarsh station (closed 1968) between Sheffield & Swinton in the 1980s. The train ...
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Aldwarke Junction

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Roundwood Colliery Junction

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Kilnhurst West

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Swinton

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66540 approaching Swinton station with the lunchtime Leeds to Southampton freightliner on 17th October 2019. ...
Roger Geach 17/10/2019
A pair of the once prolific class 20's, nos 20092+20185, working north through the 1990 Swinton Station with a rake of empty engineers short wheelbase ...
David Pesterfield 16/03/1992
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Swinton [2nd]

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Wath Road Junction

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Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway (Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway Joint)
Class 25 no 5177 passes Wath Road Junction near Mexborough with a southbound express freight off the Swinton and Knottingley Joint line on 17 August ...
Bill Jamieson 17/08/1970
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Wath North

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Darfield [1st]

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Darfield [2nd]

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Cudworth Station South Junction

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Cudworth

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47045 (D1626) speeds the 14:00 Newcastle - Bristol past the disused station at Cudworth on a warm but sultry August Saturday afternoon in 1975. ...
Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975
Steam heat 'Peak' No. 45044 Royal Inniskilling Fusilier forges south past the site of Cudworth station in August 1975 with the through service ...
Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975
The late morning Cardiff to Newcastle express approaches Cudworth Station under caution in August 1975 behind Peak No. 46028. The lines to the right ...
Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975
The summer Saturday 09.10 Tenby - York passes Cudworth Station signal box in August 1975 behind Brush Type 4 no 47087 Cyclops. ...
Bill Jamieson 02/08/1975
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Barnsley [1st]

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Cudworth South Junction

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Royston and Notton [2nd]

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Looking across Lund Hill Lane by the extremely weather-worn former slow / goods line bridge, at the north end of the former Royston & Notton Station ...
David Pesterfield 01/03/2020
Looking west down Lund Hill Lane towards Royston town centre, to the extremely weather-worn former slow / goods line bridge, at the north end of the ...
David Pesterfield 01/03/2020
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Royston Junction

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Royston and Notton [1st]

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Walton [NMR]

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West Riding Junction

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West Riding and Grimsby Railway





Oakenshaw

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Snydale Junction

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Goose Hill Junction

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Manchester and Leeds Railway





Normanton

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The nameplate of former Southern Railway V Schools Class 4-4-0 30925 'Cheltenham' seen when it was standing at Normanton station on 13 May 1962, ...
David Pesterfield 13/05/1962
Maunsell Southern Railway Schools Class 4-4-0 30925 'Cheltenham', piloting Fowler LMS 2P 4-4-0 40646, is seen standing at Normanton on 13 May 1962 ...
David Pesterfield 13/05/1962
ScotRail liveried 47637 'Springburn' has just passed Goose Hill Junction at Normanton, with a special working in April 1988, and is put under power as ...
David Pesterfield 23/04/1988
The Saturday 06.55 Gloucester - Leeds on the former Midland mainline half a mile south of Goose Hill Junction in April 1976. 45071 was the first the ...
Bill Jamieson 03/04/1976
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Altofts Junction

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York and North Midland Railway





Altofts

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Entrance to Altofts station near Normanton West Yorkshire, complete with WYPTE Metro sign. Photographed on 15 May 1990 - the day after the station was ...
Ian Dinmore 15/05/1990
Scene at Altofts station, West Yorkshire, on 15 May 1990, the day after the station was officially closed to passengers. ...
Ian Dinmore 15/05/1990
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Methley North

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Woodlesford

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Northern Rail Express Sprinter 158853 approaches the soon to be removed foot crossing at Woodlesford station whilst working the 1037 ex Leeds limited ...
David Pesterfield 18/09/2010
Former West Yorkshire PTE owned, Northern Trains operated, Express Sprinter 158906 runs slowly under the newly erected footbridge at Woodlesford ...
David Pesterfield 19/01/2011
The soon to be replaced foot crossing at Woodlesford Station seen from the down platform, with preparation work for the new footbridge installation ...
David Pesterfield 18/09/2010
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Stourton Junction

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South Leeds Junction Railway





Hunslet South Junction

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Hunslet [1st]

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Hunslet [2nd]

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Hunslet Goods Junction

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Leeds Extension (North Midland Railway)





Hunslet Lane

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