Disused railway lines and closed stations in Derbyshire

330 miles of disused railway
129 closed stations
38 stations open today
95 named lost lines

Derbyshire has 330 miles of disused railway and 129 closed stations, against 38 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Cromford and High Peak Line, with 19 miles of its route inside Derbyshire.

See Derbyshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 330 miles of lost railway in Derbyshire break down as 233 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 89 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 7.9 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Derbyshire

95 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Derbyshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Cromford and High Peak Line	19
Derbyshire Extension Branch	19
Beighton to Annesley Branch	16
Cromford and High Peak Railway	14
Parsley Hay to Ashbourne Line	13
Westhorpe Colliery Line	11
Chesterfield Loop	9.4
Woodhead Line	9.4
Barrow Hill and Creswell Line	8.8
Chesterfield to Lincoln Line	8.2
Monsal Trail	7.5
Little Eaton Junction to Denby Branch	6.5
Ashover Light Railway	5.8
Peak Forest Tramway	5.4
Ripley and Heanor Railway	5.3
Ashbourne Line	5.0
Bolsover Branch Line	4.9
Ticknall Tramway	3.8
Heanor Branch	3.5
Pilsley Branch	3.2
Ambergate Junction to New Mills Line	3.0
Leen Valley Extension	3.0
Hayfield Branch	2.7
Ambergate to Pye Bridge Line	2.5
Ashby-de-la-Zouch to Chellaston East Junction	2.5
Doe Lea Branch and Extension	2.5
Melbourne Line	2.2
Morton Branch	2.0
Mottram Junction to Waterside Branch	2.0
Sheepbridge Branch	2.0
Unstone Branch	2.0
Stanton Branch	1.9
Bolsover Tunnel	1.8
New Hucknall Branch	1.8
Five Pits Trail	1.7
Ladybower Reservoir Construction Railway	1.7
Grassmoor Branch	1.5
Calow Colliery Branch	1.4
Nesfield Branch	1.4
Swanwick Branch	1.4

And 55 shorter stretches: Toton to Clay Cross Line, Butterley Gangroad, Crich Tramway, Langwith Sidings, St Pancras to Chesterfield Line, Williamthorpe Incline, Monkwood Branch, Shirebrook Colliery Line, Duckmanton No 6 Railway, Eckington Tramway, Alfreton Iron Works, Bonds Main Branch, Brampton and Gashouse Branch, Holmwood Branch, New Hucknall Colliery Line, Oxcroft Branch, Ramcroft Colliery Branch, Tibshelf to Silverhill Colliery Branch, Trent North Curve, Avenue Coking Plant Branch, Buxton to High Peak Junction Line No 2, Gowhole Sidings, Heanor Goods Branch, Staveley Down Sidings, Tibshelf Sidings, Chinley North Junction and Buxton Branch, Markeaton Park Light Railway, Gowhole Lines, Grassmore Colliery Branch, Hall Lane Junction to Foxlow Junction Curve, Stockley Trail, Glossop Line, Ilkeston Town Branch, Alfreton Colliery Branch, Ambergate Junction to New Mills, Haddon Tunnel, Markham Colliery Lines, Pilsley Colliery Branch, Rowsley Old Yard, Seymoor Coal Stocking Site, Swadlincote to Cadley Hill Colliery Line, Alftreton Old Tunnel, Clay Cross Down Goods Loop, Beggarlee Branch, Blackwell Colliery Branch, Buxton Flying Junction Line, Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension, Higher Buxton Goods Depot, Sheepbridge Siding, Buxton Curve Junction to Buxton Midland Station, Duckmanton No 7 Railway, Holmewood Colliery Branch, Upper Birchwood Colliery, Barber Walker Line and Burbage Tunnel.

Closed railway stations in Derbyshire

All 129 closed and former stations in Derbyshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Derbyshire

38 stations in Derbyshire still have a train service. The busiest are Derby (4.1 million a year), Chesterfield (1.8 million a year), Glossop (739,966 a year), Long Eaton (651,792 a year) and Alfreton (382,994 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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