He worked on the North Midland line from Derby to Leeds, the York and North Midland line from Normanton to York, the Manchester and Leeds, the Birmingham and Derby, the Sheffield and Rotherham among many others.

Cumberland joined the Midland army under Ligonier, and began pursuit of the enemy, as the Stuarts retreated northwards from Derby.

The river now passes under a viaduct that carries the Midland Main Line which links London St. Pancras International to Sheffield Midland station in northern England via Luton, Bedford, Kettering, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Chesterfield.

The Midland Counties Railway from Nottingham to Derby through Beeston was opened on 30 May 1839.

Later, the railways arrived with the Midland Railway route from Derby to Birmingham arriving in Tamworth in 1847, and later the London and North Western Railway, which provided direct trains to the capital.

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley Line ( avoiding Derby ) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, before heading west along the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester Piccadilly.

British Rail APT-E built at Derby rail technical centre and extensively tested on the Midland Main Line its first run being on 25 July 1972 from Derby to Duffield

The Midland Main Line was built in stages between the 1830s and the 1870s, originating in three lines which met at the Tri Junct Station in Derby, which became the Midland Railway.

This was followed on 1 July 1840 by the North Midland Railway, which ran from Derby to Leeds Hunslet Lane via Chesterfield, Rotherham Masborough ( from where the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway ran a branch to Sheffield Wicker ), Swinton and Normanton.

On the same day the Midland Counties Railway, which ran from Derby and Nottingham to Leicester Campbell Street, was extended from Leicester to a temporary station on the northern outskirts of Rugby.

The former was opened in the 1840s by the North Midland, Midland Counties and Birmingham & Derby railway companies to meet their joint requirements for locomotive, carriage and wagon construction and maintenance.

The latter site was opened in the 1860s by the Midland Railway as part of a reorganisation of facilities in Derby and left the original site to concentrate on locomotive manufacture and repair.

The Midland Railway had a large network of lines centred on the East Midlands, with its headquarters based in Derby.

The Midland Railway Consolidation Act was passed in 1844 authorising the merger of the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway.

* Derby Works, railway locomotive works

* Derby Carriage and Wagon Works, railway works

* Derby Road railway station, Ipswich, England

Unfortunately he was committed for the next few days, but at a board meeting of the railway in Derby, it is said he appeared to be spending much of his time doodling on a sheet of blotting paper.

These met at the Tri-Junct station at Derby, where the railway also established its locomotive and later its carriage and wagon works.

The original 1839 line from Derby had run to Hampton-in-Arden railway station, but the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway had built a terminus at Lawley Street in 1842, then in 1851 the Midland started to run into Curzon Street.

The Midland Counties Railway ( MCR ) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1832 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, to London.

Initially the railway ran into a temporary platform at Derby, but at Nottingham a magnificent terminus had been built in Carrington Street.

The railway line also connects Wellingborough with Bedford, Luton, Kettering, Corby, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds.

However, it was the coming of the railways that transformed a small village into the world's first " railway town ", although places such as Crewe, Derby and Swindon soon overtook Newton in size and importance.

Spondon railway station has a rather limited service to both Derby and Nottingham.

Alsager is close to junction 16 of the M6 motorway, and is served by Alsager railway station on the Crewe to Derby line.

East Midlands Parkway railway station and Derby Midland Station are close by and the owners have expressed their desire for spectators to use these stations and coaches to the circuit.

This section of the Great Northern Railway, also known as the Friargate Line, ( for further history about this now closed railway see GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension ), was built as a rival to the already established Midland Railway which at the time had a monopoly over Derby, Nottingham and the surrounding areas.

The first rails made from steel were made by Robert Forester Mushet in 1857, and were laid experimentally at Derby railway station on the Midland Railway in England.

It consisted of four cars ( built at the Pullman Car Company workshops in Derby ): " Beatrice ", " Louise ", " Maud " and " Victoria "; which were the first electrically-lit coaches to run on a British railway.

It was the original site of Derby ’ s railway manufacturing industry, but land here had also been used for gas and coke works, gravel abstraction and landfill.

West Derby railway station was located on the North Liverpool Extension Line.

There was also a West Hallam railway station, connected to the Great Northern Railway and Derby Friargate Station.

Although there is currently no railway station, the town was once home to a terminal on the Midland Railway, and passenger trains travelling on the St. Pancras-Manchester Piccadilly line still passed along the border with Stapleford during 2003-2004. Transport links to Nottingham, Derby and the surrounding area are currently provided by Trent Barton.

In 1842, the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway was completed to the southeast of Castle Vale with a railway station serving the area on the line.

Derby College uses a converted roundhouse building next to Derby railway station, formerly of the North Midland Railway, as its Derby College @ Roundhouse campus.

Image: View from Station, Derby Line, VT. jpg | View from station c. 1908

A split-level station exists where the two main lines cross each another, the higher level platforms ( on the Derby to Birmingham line ), being at right angles to the lower ones on the main line to London.

The local BBC radio station is BBC Radio Derby ; Independent Local Radio includes Touch, Signal 1 and Capital East Midlands.

Television Wales and West opened transmission at 4: 45pm on 14 January 1958 with a live, 15-minute opening ceremony by station chairman Lord Derby, Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Alfred Francis.

( See Derby station ) The ideas had never reached fruition since the practicality of using cable haulage for passenger trains was always in doubt.

The station has two platforms, Platform One for Derby, Nottingham, London and the North, Platform Two for Tamworth, Birmingham and the South.

The station is situated on the Cross Country Route, between the principal cities of Derby and Birmingham.

The New Haven and Derby Railroad ran through Orange starting in 1871, with a station in Orange.

Stockport Tiviot Dale station also served the town centre between 1865 and 1967, lying on routes from Liverpool, Derby and Sheffield.

The station is the terminus for East Midlands Trains services from London to Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, and smaller towns in between, and for Eurostar's high-speed trains to Paris, Brussels and Lille.

In its early days it was a main starting point for buses heading to Epsom on Derby Day excursions and today many bus services start from the bus station in front of the station.

Ilkeston's third station was Ilkeston North, on the former Great Northern Railway ( later LNER ) line from Nottingham to Derby Friargate station, closed in September 1964.

The dam was named after the Derby Southern Pacific Railroad station.