The Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line links 36 stations, with a top line speed of 125 mph.
See the Midland Main Line on the live map
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 549 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 36 |
| Top line speed | 125 mph |
| Passengers a year | 68.7 million entries and exits across its stations |
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
- Finchley Road & Frognal1.9 million a year
- West Hampstead Thameslink3.1 million a year
- Cricklewood859,464 a year
- Brent Cross West675,392 a year
- Hendon1.0 million a year
- Mill Hill Broadway1.9 million a year
- Elstree & Borehamwood2.8 million a year
- Radlett1.3 million a year
- St Albans City6.7 million a year
- Harpenden2.8 million a year
- Luton Airport Parkway4.7 million a year
- Luton3.7 million a year
- Leagrave1.5 million a year
- Harlington307,596 a year
- Flitwick1.3 million a year
- Bedford3.8 million a year
- Wellingborough980,522 a year
- Kettering1.1 million a year
- Market Harborough943,468 a year
- Leicester5.5 million a year
- Syston213,180 a year
- Sileby153,360 a year
- Barrow-upon-Soar101,842 a year
- Loughborough1.4 million a year
- East Midlands Parkway355,098 a year
- Long Eaton651,792 a year
- Spondon47,006 a year
- Derby4.1 million a year
- Duffield66,536 a year
- Belper219,184 a year
- Ambergate39,004 a year
- Chesterfield1.8 million a year
- Dronfield229,562 a year
- Dore and Totley240,254 a year
- Sheffield10.3 million a year
- Meadowhall Interchange1.9 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Sheffield, 10.3 million entries and exits a year and 49th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Derby to Birmingham (Proof House Junction) Line, Derwent Valley Line, Down Fast, Down Slow, Hallam Line, Hope Valley Line, North London Line, St Pancras to Chesterfield Line, Up Fast, Up Slow.
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.