page_title: Linby
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Linby / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Southbound freight on the Leen Valley line at Linby, passing under the Great Central main line. View NE, towards Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Shirebrook (on the ex-Great Northern Leen Valley line, closed finally in 1968) and Annesley, Chesterfield and Sheffield (Victoria) on the ex-Great Central main line (closed 5/9/66). This was a train-watcher's paradise, because the ex-Midland Nottingham - Mansfield line ran parallel here - off view to the right. Note the end of an Up Express on the GC line on the bridge. The locomotive is LNER B1 4-6-0 No. 61056.
context_page_description: Linby is a small village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. The nearest town is Hucknall which is immediately to the south-west. The village grew up around the mills on the River Leen, from which Linby's name is derived. Small streams known as Linby Docks run on both sides of the main street. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 232.
context_section_description: The Linby Trail is a 2 km stretch of the National Cycle Route starting at the village and finishing at nearby Newstead Village.
  Three railway lines once passed through Linby, with stations on two of them. The first was the Midland Railway (later part of the LMS) line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop, closed to passengers on 12 October 1964 though partly retained as a freight route serving collieries at Annesley. In the 1990s this line was reopened to passengers in stages, the section through Linby in 1993, but Linby station did not reopen with it.
  The second line was the Great Northern Railway (later part of the LNER) route serving many of the same places as the Midland. It closed to passengers on 14 September 1931 but remained in use for freight until 25 March 1968. The Linby station on this line had closed long before, on 1 July 1916. 
  The third line was the Great Central Railway (also later part of the LNER), the last main line ever built from the north of England to London, opened on 15 March 1899. The stretch through Linby (which crossed over both the other lines), closed completely on 5 September 1966, but there had never been a Linby station on this line.
caption: The ex-Great Northern Leen Valley line at Linby whare it passed beneath the ex-Great Central Main Line
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