RAILSCOT | Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway)

/02/1880	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Opened to local passenger trains.
/02/1885	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Holwell Branch brought into use.
/07/1888	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) London St Pancras - Glasgow St Enoch and Edinburgh Waverley trains start to use line.
29/04/1967	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Line closed to passenger expresses. It was latterly used by express trains until the WCML was upgraded.
01/11/1968	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Last freight train.
04/11/1968	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Closed as through route. The line was then developed as a test track and was host to trains such as the APT and Pendolinos as well as the famous test crash of a train into a nuclear flask.
14/11/2005	Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway) Neither Network Rail nor the Government express any interest in taking over the now redundant test track.