Complex sentence: The station was opened for passengers on 2 February 1880 by the Midland Railway on its cut-off line from to, which had opened the previous year to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham.
Split into simpler sentences: The station was opened for passengers on 2 February 1880 by the Midland Railway. It was on its cut-off line from to, which had opened the previous year to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham.