Trains to Derby - Station Details and further Information on Derby Train Services
Derby Midland Station (often called Derby Station) is a main line train station serving the city of Derby in England. Owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains, the station is also used by CrossCountry services and one Northern Rail service. It is situated to the south-east of Derby city centre, and is close to the west bank of the River Derwent.
Derby's central location and former importance as a 'railway town' have made it an important node of the rail network. Until recently, major carriage and locomotive workshops as well as the Research Division in the Railway Technical Centre were housed there.
The station is an interchange point between the Midland Main Line from London St Pancras to Leeds and long-distance services on the Cross-Country route from Aberdeen through Birmingham to Penzance (the zero milepost on the Birmingham-bound Cross-Country route is at the south end of platform 1, at the divergence of the two major routes), or Bournemouth. Until the mid twentieth century, the station was host to through trains from Manchester and Glasgow to London. It is still a busy station, the section to Sheffield having the highest train frequency (passenger and freight) of any line in the East Midlands.
Local services to Matlock along the Derwent Valley Line originate from Nottingham, and the station also sees local and semi-fast services to, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Birmingham, and Cardiff.
Derby station today has six platforms (all but Platform 5 are through platforms), connected by a footbridge, used as an exit to Pride Park and a car park. |