 In the centre, in place of the missing platform 3, was a release line for the locomotives.The adjacent goods depot was, at the time, the largest covered area in the town.Leaving the station, the line passed the Saxby and Farmer 80 lever station signal box, crossed Park Road by an arched brick bridge then travelled along a short length of embankment followed by Boythorpe Viaduct which crossed the MR's Brampton Branch and the industrial "Boythorpe Railway", then a longer stretch of embankment leading to a major viaduct at Horns Bridge, which passed over the Midland Railway, main roads to Mansfield and Derby, the Great Central Railway, Hyde's Sidings and the River Rother.