Erewash Valley line

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Midland Main Line to Chesterfield Clay Cross Midland Main Line to Derby Doe Hill to Mansfield Woodhouse Westhouses MPD colliery line Westhouses and Blackwell Alfreton Alfreton Tunnel to Kirkby-in-Ashfield Pye Bridge Ambergate to Pye Bridge Line Codnor Park and Ironville Langley Mill Branch│Through Ripley and Heanor Line Shipley Gate to Old Basford GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension Ilkeston Town Ilkeston formerly Ilkeston Junction and Cossall Trowell to Nottingham M1 motorway colliery line Stanton Gate Stapleford and Sandiacre Toton TMD Midland Main Line to Derby │ to Nottingham Long Eaton (current) Long Eaton MR │ original Trent Castle Donington Line Midland Main Line to London

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.