Chapter One
Masbrough Remembered Masbrough Station has to be one of the most iconic locations in this area being as it is, and was, at the focus of two railway lines, one passenger and one freight. Although there has been a large down-turn in freight over the years and latterly this has been more the case, with the huge change in the use of coal at the local power stations, the location is still very busy, now with an equally large upsurge in passenger traffic. The Midland Main Line runs through here to Sheffield and south to St. Pancras and to the north, to Doncaster, Leeds, York and on to Scotland. The cross-over junctions at both the north and south end of the station site were removed in the 1970/80s though the quadruple lines through the 4 platform faces still exist and there is now only a single lead connection from the Midland passenger lines at the north end, to the 'Old Road', the colloquial name for the Midland's old freight lines, south to Derby and beyond