The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway in the United Kingdom, completed in 1819 to transport coal to Mansfield from the head of the Pinxton branch of the Cromford Canal from collieries along the Erewash valley served by the Erewash Canal. (At that date the coal seams beneath Mansfield were unproven and would have been too deep to develop economically.) The railway's importance lies in its influence on later railway building in the area, particularly the development of the Midland Counties Railway.
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