Carlisle to Leeds and Branches (v. 1) (Midland Railway System Maps: The Distance Diagrams)

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From the 1820s proposals for lines from London and the East Midlands had been proposed, and they had considered using the Cromford and High Peak Railway to reach Manchester ( See Derby station). [ citation needed] Most Leicester-Nottingham local passenger trains were taken over by diesel units from 14 April 1958, taking about 51 minutes between the two cities. [15] [ full citation needed] This involved a viaduct at Dewsbury over the River Calder, a tunnel under Dewsbury Moor and a new approach railway into Bradford from the south at a lower level than the existing railway (a good part of which was to be in tunnel) leading into Bradford Midland (or Bradford Forster Square) station.

Midland Railway. Removal of the Passenger Station at Birmingham". Aris’s Birmingham Gazette. 28 April 1851 . Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.The Duke used Bakewell station for boarding and alighting from trains and it was therefore a far grander affair than one would expect of a small market town. His coat-of-arms was built into stonework on the platform façade. The Duke of Devonshire used Hassop station which was 2 miles from the village from which it took its name. The next station along the line towards Buxton was Longstone, later named Great Longstone, which served the occupants of nearby Thornbridge Hall. Heading farther northwards, the railway passes through the 533 yards Headstone Tunnel, and from this the line bursts spectacularly on to Monsal Dale viaduct. The structure has five spans each of 50 feet. Although resented by a few prominent people when built, it now blends perfectly well with the surrounding countryside. Two obvious extensions of the Midland Counties line were from Nottingham to Lincoln and from Leicester to Peterborough. They had not been proceeded with, but Hudson saw that they would make ideal "stoppers": if the cities concerned were provided with a rail service, it would make it more difficult to justify another line. They were approved while the bill for the direct line was still before Parliament, forming the present day Lincoln Branch and the Syston to Peterborough Line. By the middle of the decade investment had been paid for; passenger travel was increasing, with new comfortable trains; and the mainstay of the line – goods, particularly minerals – was increasing dramatically. National Archive RAIL 491, accessed on 21 February 2014 via ancestry.co.uk UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833–1956 for Samuel Waite Johnson

New cutting-edge trains in full operation across Thameslink route". mynewsdesk.com. Mynewsdesk. 18 September 2017 . Retrieved 8 November 2017. As part of Wellingborough's Stanton Cross development, Wellingborough station is to be expanded. [34] Vanags, J. (2001). The Mansfield and Pinxton railway. Mansfield: Old Mansfield Society. ISBN 0-9517948-5-X. a b Hewison, ChristianH. (1983). Locomotive Boiler Explosions. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. pp.35–36. ISBN 0-7153-8305-1. The Nines run from Derby (from Corporation Street, outside the Quad), Ripley, Alfreton, Sutton and Mansfield. These buses call at Butterley Station.

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The line south was the Birmingham and Bristol Railway, which reached Curzon Street via Camp Hill. These two lines had been formed by the merger of the standard gauge Birmingham and Gloucester Railway and the broad gauge Bristol and Gloucester Railway. [ citation needed]

Midland Counties Railway". Leicester Chronicle. British Newspaper Archive. 9 May 1840 . Retrieved 5 July 2016. Kettering East: Compromise deal agreed over funding". BBC News Online. 13 March 2013 . Retrieved 21 March 2014. Rail industry welcomes progress on Midland Mainline electrification". www.riagb.org.uk . Retrieved 21 December 2021. Trent Junction to Clay Cross Junction via Derby (the original line), the Nottingham branch, and the Erewash Valley Line each diverge north of East Midlands ParkwayThe railway was not conceived as a single entity by one company but was in fact the result of the ambitions of several separate companies who for their own individual reasons, built the line at different times over a period of some 20 years. Nevertheless, the eventual result of these ventures was a mainline providing a direct route between Derby and Manchester. The term Midland Main Line has been used from the late 1840s to describe any route of the Midland Railway on which express trains were operated. Line-side train monitoring equipment includes hot axle box detectors (HABD) and wheel impact load detectors (WILD) ‘Wheelchex’, these are located as follows. [56] [58] [55] Line-side monitoring equipment on the Midland Main Line The cities, towns and villages served by the MML are listed below. Stations in bold have a high usage. This table includes the historical extensions to Manchester (where it linked to the West Coast Main Line) and Carlisle (via Leeds where it meets with the 'modern' East Coast Main Line). The MR was in a commanding position having its Derby headquarters at the junctions of the two main routes from London to Scotland, by its connections to the London and Birmingham Railway in the south, and from York via the York and North Midland Railway in the north. [7] Consolidation [ edit ]

London North Eastern Route Sectional Appendix; LOR LN3201 Seq001 to 030" (PDF). Network Rail . Retrieved 13 January 2018. In 1977, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries recommended considering electrification of more of Britain's rail network, and by 1979 BR presented a range of options that included electrifying the Midland Main Line from London to Yorkshire by 2000. [16] By 1983, the line had been electrified from Moorgate to Bedford, but proposals to continue electrification to Nottingham and Sheffield were not implemented. a b Christiansen, Rex (1983). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 7. ISBN 0-946537-00-3. a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Allport, Sir James Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica (11thed.). Cambridge University Press.

Spence, Jeoffry (1975). Victorian & Edwardian Railways from old photographs. London: Batsford. p.76. ISBN 0-7134-3044-3. A Midland Railway chronology>London extension". The Midland Railway Society. 1998. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. For marketing and franchising, this is no longer considered part of the Midland Main Line: see Settle–Carlisle Railway. An Act for the Construction by the Midland Railway Company of a new Line of Railway between London and Bedford, with Branches therefrom; and for other Purpose". [18]