[6] Castle Donington power station was supplied with coal via a branch off the adjacent Trent and Weston railway line.

Rail facilities included an east-facing junction on the mainline, four loading arrival sidings, a gross-weight weighbridge, a four-track set of unloading hoppers, a tare-weight weighbridge, and four empty departure sidings.

[8] The power station's internal railway system had the last steam locomotives in regular industrial usage in Great Britain.

[9][10] The two 0-4-0 saddle tank locos were built in 1953 by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd and went into preservation upon the power station's closure with No.

The annual electricity output, in GWh, of Castle Donington was:[5][11][12]The power station has since been demolished and a distribution centre for Marks & Spencer has been developed on the site.