The viaduct carried the LD&ECR's double-track Langwith Junction to Sheffield Beighton Branch over a limestone gorge known as "Markland Grips".

Timetabled passenger services over the viaduct ended in September 1939 but summer weekend excursions from Manchester Central to Yarmouth Vauxhall and Sheffield Victoria to Skegness continued until 1964.

Finally a concrete "tunnel" was built for wheeled and foot users and the viaduct was buried under spoil to turn it into an embankment.

[12] Clowne South station site was for a number of years a community skate park, but after much antisocial behaviour, this was removed, the land sold and houses built on it instead.

The railway trackbed from there southeastwards towards the site of Markland Grips Viaduct is the publicly accessible Clowne Linear Park.