Long Eaton railway station

Long Eaton railway station serves the town of Long Eaton, in Derbyshire, England. It is on the Midland Main Line and the Derby-Nottingham line, 120 miles 28 chains (193.7 km) north of London St Pancras. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway, which operates services with CrossCountry.

The line was opened by the Midland Counties Railway in 1839, which soon joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway.

The station was designed by A.A. Langley, engineer to the Midland Railway, and opened as Sawley Junction on 10 December 1888^[1] on Tamworth Road.

From the 1920s until 1937, the station was managed by the station master at Trent Junction.^[2]

In 1932, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway announced that Sawley Junction would be known as Sawley Junction for Long Eaton.^[3] In 1967, the station became known as Long Eaton.

On 9 October 1869, a Midland Railway passenger train was involved in a rear-end collision with another train at Long Eaton Junction; it resulted in seven deaths, with another twelve injured. The investigation blamed fog, inadequate braking power, excessive speed and fogman error for the collision.^[4]

The station is staffed during the day. There is a ticket office, with three automatic ticket machines sited externally. There is a car park with 94 spaces, with lockers available for bicycles.^[5]

The station is served by two train operating companies; the usual Monday–Saturday service pattern in trains per hour is as follows:

CrossCountry:

• 1 tph to Nottingham
• 1 tph to Cardiff Central, via Birmingham New Street.^[6]

East Midlands Railway:

• 1 tph to London St Pancras, via Leicester
• 2 tph to Nottingham; of which:
  • 1 tph continues to Newark Castle
• 1 tph to Sheffield
• 1 tph to Matlock
• 1 tph to Crewe.^[7]

On Sundays, the London to Sheffield trains call hourly in each direction and the Matlock trains every two hours. There is an hourly Derby to Nottingham stopping service in each direction, but no direct service to Birmingham.

The Midland Main Line runs north–south through Long Eaton: north to Derby, Chesterfield and Sheffield; south to East Midlands Parkway, Loughborough, Leicester and London St Pancras.

A major junction south of the station at Trent links with the cross-country route eastbound to Nottingham. Westbound services to Birmingham travel via Derby and the Cross Country Route.

• The Nottingham and Derby Railway Companion, 1839, republished 1979 with a foreword by J. B. Radford, Derbyshire Record Society
• Banks, C., 1996. British Railways Past and Present: Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Past and Present Publishing Ltd
• Higginson, G., 1989. The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust

• Train times and station information for Long Eaton railway station from National Rail

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