Duckmanton Junction

Duckmanton Junction is a former railway junction near Arkwright Town in Derbyshire, England.

Duckmanton Junction (sometimes referred to as Duckmanton Junctions) is the collective name for four interrelated junctions built by the GCR to connect its main line to the LD&ECR's main line when it took the latter company over in 1907. The junction opened for goods traffic on 22 September 1907 and for passengers on 1 October 1907. The junctions would nowadays be described as "grade separated".

The four junctions were:

The GC main line ran North-South, whereas the LD&ECR line ran West-East. The former bridged the latter at a Right Angle a short distance West of Arkwright Town station. The GCR's key hope in connecting the lines was to carry coal from the LD&ECR's catchment area to markets further South, notably London. They also foresaw the possibility of traffic from their intended Immingham Dock (which would open in 1912) having an alternative route for coal from the GCR's Derbyshire catchment area.

As a result, the junction provision was, by any standards, lavish. It far exceeded the traffic it ever carried, though that was hard to foresee at the time. The whole was laid and signalled to passenger standards and a "fast" service was tried from Lincoln to Nottingham, connecting with expresses to Marylebone. This took two hours to Nottingham (compared with the Midland Railway's fast time of under an hour) and 5hrs to London (compared with the Great Northern's 3 hrs 30 mins.)

By 1910 this service consisted of a single carriage. Northbound it was slipped at Leicester off the 15:15 from Marylebone. It was worked forward via Nottingham Victoria and Heath then turned east at Duckmanton Junction to Langwith Junction where it was attached to the 18:53 all stations to Lincoln where it arrived at 19:58.

By 1922 there was no advertised passenger service using the junction, such trains as were run between Lincoln and Nottingham via ex-LD&ECR metals turned south at Clipstone East Junction and called at Mansfield Central, offering a shorter journey with the possibility of extra business in Mansfield.

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