Erewash Valley line

Erewash Valley Line
Clay Cross
Doe Hill
Westhouses MPD
colliery line
Westhouses and Blackwell
Alfreton
Alfreton Tunnel
Pye Bridge
Codnor Park and Ironville
Langley Mill
BranchThrough
Shipley Gate
Ilkeston Town
Ilkeston
Trowell
colliery line
Stanton Gate
Stapleford and Sandiacre
Toton TMD
Long Eaton
(current)
Long Eaton
MRoriginal
Trent

The Erewash Valley Line is a railway line in England, running from Long Eaton, between Nottingham and Derby, and Clay Cross, near Chesterfield. The southern part was opened by the Midland Railway in 1847 as far as Codnor Park, where it connected to established ironworks, and soon after, a line to Pinxton and Mansfield.

It linked numerous collieries and ironstone pits, and encouraged the development of the so-called "concealed" Nottinghamshire coalfield, where the coal measures were below a thick limestone stratum. The line was extended north to Clay Cross, on the way to Chesterfield, in 1861, and in doing so formed an alternative through southward route. Congestion on the Midland Railway was a grave problem, and the line enabled diversion of some goods and mineral traffic. Large marshalling yards were developed at Toton, at the southern end of the line, to handle the huge volume of coal traffic.

The Erewash Valley Line continues in use at the present day.