Despite Shirebrook Junction signal box being a classic Midland box

of 1889 vintage, this is deep in Great Central territory! The lines here were once extremely busy with coal traffic but now there is little freight. However, passenger services returned to the line on the left in 1995 with the route between Worksop and Nottingham reopening and being branded as the Robin Hood Line reopening. The rusty tracks to the right once headed off to Lincoln and the east coast. This route was later truncated at High Marham power station with just a regular flow of coal trains serving it. In recent years it has been in use as a Network Rail test track.