M&GN Circle

'The line was sometimes known by the undeserved title of 'Muddle and Go Nowhere' but in reality it was far from that. Its stations were often referred to as the "Midland" reflecting its connections with the Midland Railway and the Midlands. It was a secondary line, jointly owned by the two railway companies named in its title, later by the L.M.S. and L.N.E.R. and survived mainly on the castoffs of its parents.'