[3] The track from Eggington Junction to Mickleover was finally lifted between July and October 1990, to aid the construction of the A516 road's Etwall bypass.

Today little remains of the station except Andrew Handyside & Co's bridge over Friargate, although the remaining arches attached to the south side of the bridge on the right side reveal a boarded-up arch, the inside of which contains the original staircase to the central island platforms.

Now vanished is the canopy that provided passenger access to the station,[clarification needed] which was directly adjacent to the boarded-up arch.

It is possible to walk the old station site and to inspect Handyside's bridge, although the crossing has been fenced off for safety reasons.

From here the route approaches the site now occupied by Sainsbury's and there are still some signs of the existence of the old railway, such as a disused bridge over where the line once stood.

[10] According to a TV programme broadcast in 1957, Bud Flanagan said that he wrote the song in Derby in 1927, and first performed it a week later at the Pier Pavilion, Southport.