Editing Midland Main Line (section)

===Ambergate Junction to Manchester===
[[File:Ambergate junction.jpg|250px|thumb|The complex network of road and rail around Ambergate Junction, formerly where Manchester expresses left the mainline]]
''For marketing and franchising, this is no longer considered part of the Midland Main Line'': see [[Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway]]

The line was once the Midland Railway's route from [[St Pancras railway station|London St Pancras]] to [[Manchester Central railway station|Manchester]], branching at Ambergate Junction along the [[Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway]], now known as the [[Derwent Valley line]].
In days gone by, it featured named expresses such as [[The Palatine]]. Much later in the twentieth century, it carried the [[Midland Pullman]].

{| class="wikitable"
! Town/City
! Station
! [[Ordnance Survey]] <br> [[British national grid reference system|grid reference]]
|-
| ''[[Ambergate]]''
| ''{{stnlnk|Ambergate}}''
| 
|-
| ''[[Whatstandwell]]''
| ''{{stnlnk|Whatstandwell}}''
|
|-
| ''[[Cromford]]''
| ''{{stnlnk|Cromford}}''
|
|-
| ''[[Matlock Bath]]''
| ''{{stnlnk|Matlock Bath}}''
|
|-
| ''[[Matlock, Derbyshire|Matlock]]''
| ''{{stnlnk|Matlock}}''
|
|-
| Closed section stations
|-
| [[Darley Dale]] 
| [[Darley Dale railway station|Darley Dale]]
| 
|-
| [[Rowsley]]
| [[Rowsley railway station|Rowsley]]
|
|-
| [[Bakewell]]
| {{stnlnk|Bakewell}}
|
|-
| [[Hassop]]
| {{stnlnk|Hassop}}
|
|-
| [[Great Longstone]]
| {{stnlnk|Great Longstone for Ashford}}
|
|-
| [[Monsal Dale]]
| {{stnlnk|Monsal Dale}}
|
|-
| [[Millers Dale]]
| {{stnlnk|Millers Dale}}
|
|-
| [[Blackwell Mill]] 
| {{stnlnk|Blackwell Mill}}
|
|-
| [[Buxton]]
| [[Buxton (Midland) railway station|Buxton]]
|
|-
| [[Peak Forest]]
| {{stnlnk|Peak Forest}}
|
|-
| [[Chapel-en-le-Frith]]
| {{stnlnk|Chapel-en-le-Frith Central}}
|
|-
| Now part of the [[Hope Valley line]] or other lines
|-
| [[Chinley]]
| {{stnlnk|Chinley}}
|
|-
| [[Bugsworth]]
| {{stnlnk|Buxworth}} (Now Closed)
|
|- 
| [[New Mills]]
| {{stnlnk|New Mills Central}}
|
|-
| [[Strines]]
| {{stnlnk|Strines}}
|
|-
| [[Marple, Greater Manchester|Marple]]
| {{stnlnk|Marple}}
|
|-
| [[Romiley]]
| {{stnlnk|Romiley}}
|
|-
| [[Bredbury]]
| {{stnlnk|Bredbury}}
|
|-
| [[Brinnington]]
| {{stnlnk|Brinnington}}
|
|-
| [[Reddish]]
| {{stnlnk|Reddish North}}
|
|-
| [[Gorton]]
| {{stnlnk|Ryder Brow}}
|
|-
| [[Belle Vue, Greater Manchester|Belle Vue]]/[[Gorton]]
| {{stnlnk|Belle Vue}}
|
|-
| [[Stockport]]
| [[Stockport Tiviot Dale railway station|Stockport Tiviot Dale]]
|
|-
| [[Manchester]]
| {{stnlnk|Manchester Central}} (Now Closed)
|
|}

This line was closed in the 1960s between {{stnlnk|Matlock}} and {{stnlnk|Buxton}}, severing an important link between Manchester and the [[East Midlands]], which has never been satisfactorily replaced by any mode of transport. A section of the route remains in the hands of the [[Peak Rail]] preservation group, operating between Matlock and [[Rowsley]] to the north.