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Castle Donington line
Class 170 at the site of Castle Donington station
Overview
Status
No regular passenger Services
Owner
Network Rail
Connecting lines
Nottingham–Lincoln line Cross-Country Route Midland main line
Former connections
Melbourne line
Stations
None
Service
Type
Heavy rail
System
National Rail
History
Opened
1869
Closed
1930 (to regular passenger services)
Technical
Number of tracks
Two
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification
None
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Castle Donington line
Legend
Midland main line
Erewash Canal
River Trent
M1
A50
East Midlands Gateway
Rail Freight Interchange
Castle Donington and Shardlow
River Trent
Trent and Mersey Canal
Weston on Trent
Melbourne line
Melbourne line
Trent and Mersey Canal
Cross Country Route
The Castle Donington line also known as Weston On Trent Branch Railway is a railway line in Derbyshire, England, that runs between Stenson Junction in the west and Sheet Stores Junction in the east[1] (just north of Trent Junction). There are no passenger services that serve this line regularly but passenger services are occasionally routed across it. Regular passenger services are routed via Derby. The line is regularly used by freight trains and serves the East Midlands Gateway freight interchange. There are no current passenger stations on the line which previously served stations at Castle Donington and Weston-on-Trent and also linked to the Melbourne Line.
The Castle Donington line offers a link between lines in the east including the Nottingham–Lincoln line and Midland Main Line joining just south of Long Eaton with lines in the west Cross-Country Route and Crewe–Derby line, linking just north of Willington. In both cases the links join heading south, thus permitting east-west travel avoiding Derby.
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