The station was the site of a fatal accident on 19 May 1851 which killed two people and injured sixteen others.

[2] The locomotive of a passenger train which left Derby at 21:05 for Leeds suffered a broken pump-rod.

[6] The alterations for the additional traffic resulting from the Erewash Valley Line were completed by January 1878.

No trace remains of the station, but the goods shed is still in place on the south side of the bridge.

He was found and attended at the stationmaster's house by Dr. Walker, the Midland Railway company surgeon.

[8] The injuries seem to have been the likely cause of him leaving Clay Cross in summer 1864 to become an inspector of goods traffic between Leeds and Lancaster.