The Leen Valley Extension started at Kirkby South Junction where it left the Great Central Main Line.

[2] The passenger service then settled down to five trains per day plying between Shirebrook and Nottingham Victoria, with two extra on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

To modern eyes this appears like running trains along the East Coast Main line from Edinburgh and terminating at Finsbury Park instead of Kings Cross.

[10] Summer weekend excursions to places such as Skegness continued to call at Shirebrook South up to September 1964, at which point the station became redundant and closed completely.

The GCML closed North of Nottingham in September 1966, so diversions also ended, but a last hurrah was a sleeping car service from Marylebone to Glasgow which passed through Shirebrook South in the wee small hours from 1962 to 1964.