The Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line
The Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line links 7 stations, with a top line speed of 125 mph.
See the Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 93 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 7 |
| Top line speed | 125 mph |
| Passengers a year | 6.5 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | DBP1, DBP3, DBP2 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Derby4.1 million a year
- Peartree5,256 a year
- Willington40,140 a year
- Burton-on-Trent913,000 a year
- Tamworth1.2 million a year
- Wilnecote98,734 a year
- Water Orton46,796 a year
The busiest station on the line is Derby, 4.1 million entries and exits a year and 132nd busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line on 1,538 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 277 paths on the Wednesday, 136 paths on the Saturday and 27 paths on the Sunday. 187 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 00:00 to 01:00 on the Thursday, with 30 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Midland Main Line, St Pancras to Chesterfield Line, Trent Valley Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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