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Growth |
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1832 |
Famous meeting at the Sun Inn, Eastwood, the "birth" of the Midland Railway |
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1836 |
Parliamentary approval for Midland Counties line, connecting Derby, Nottingham and Leicester. Plans for line along Erewash Valley dropped |
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1839 |
Line from Derby to Nottingham opened |
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1840 |
Line from Trent to Leicester opened |
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1844 |
Merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Railway, to form the Midland Railway Company |
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1847 |
Midland Railway line from Trent to Codnor Park opened, including stations at "Langley Mill for Heanor" and Shipley Gate |
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1849 |
Line extended to Pinxton |
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1861 |
Erewash Valley line extended from Codnor Park to Clay Cross – now becomes a main line from north to south |
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1875 |
Great Northern open branch line from Awsworth to Pinxton, with stations at Newthorpe and "Eastwood & Langley Mill" |
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1890 |
Midland Railway open branch line from Ripley to Heanor (Midland Road), with station at "Crosshill & Codnor" |
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1891 |
Great Northern open line from Ilkeston to Heanor (Heanor Gate), with station also at Marlpool |
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1895 |
Midland Railway's Ripley to Heanor line extended to Langley Mill station |
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Decline |
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1926 |
Midland Railway passenger service between Langley Mill and Ripley ceased |
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1928 |
Great Northern close Marlpool station, and run only one unadvertised train each way per day between Heanor and Ilkeston |
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1929 |
Track between Ripley and Heanor removed. Track from Heanor to main line at Milnhay remains for goods traffic |
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1939 |
Heanor Great Northern station closed |
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1948 |
Shipley Gate Station closed |
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1951 |
Heanor Goods Station (Midland Road) closed |
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1963 |
Great Northern Pinxton branch, including Eastwood & Langley Mill closed to passenger traffic |
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1967 |
Langley Mill Station closed |
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1986 |
Langley Mill Station re- |
