Newark - Bottesford North Junction - West Junction [- Nottingham]:
service suspended from Monday 16 April 1917 and resumed from Tuesday 1 April 1919. Cotham station closed and the meagre (two trains in one direction, three in the other) service withdrawn from Monday 11 September 1939. From Monday 7 May 1945 a service was restored of one afternoon weekday round trip (1734 Mon to Sat Nottingham Victoria - Newark and 1945 return) but Cotham station was not reopened, withdrawn from Monday 3 January 1955.

[Newark -] Bottesford North Junction - South Junction [- Leicester]:
service withdrawn from Monday 16 April 1917.

[Grantham -] Bottesford East Junction - South Junction - Stathern Junction [- Leicester]:
Bottesford South station closed from Monday 1 May 1882. The meagre (two round trips) service (and calls at Redmile station) were "temporarily suspended" because of fuel shortage from Monday 15 January 1951. They do not reappear until Bradshaw's issue dated 2 July 1951, until 9 September 1951 (despite being shown as "suspended" in the summer working timetable). Thus, 10 September 1951 marked the effective passenger closure of Redmile station and the end of winter trains over this section of line. For summers 1952 and 1953 one round trip (1027 Leicester Belgrave Road - Grantham and 1400 return) was restored on Saturdays only (5 July - 13 September 1952, 4 July - 12 September 1953) - but not calling at Redmile (10). "Official" recognition of the de facto closure of Redmile station and of the local service over the line was not until Monday 7 December 1953. Throughout this period the line continued in use for summer Saturday and Sunday through trains and excursions between the Leicester and east coast resorts - until last trains Sunday 9 September 1962.

[Nottingham -] Saxondale Junction - Stathern Junction [- Market Harborough]:
Nottingham terminal moved from London Road Low Level to Victoria from Monday 22 May 1944. Bingham Road station closed from Monday 2 July 1951. Service withdrawn from line from Monday 7 December 1953.

[Nottingham -] Stathern Junction - Harby & Stathern - Melton Mowbray North - John O’Gaunt [- Leicester / - Market Harborough]:
service withdrawn from Monday 7 December 1953, apart from summer Saturday and Sunday through trains and excursions - serving only Melton Mowbray - between Leicester and east coast resorts via Bottesford until last trains Sunday 9 September 1962.

[Nottingham -] John O’Gaunt - Marefield North Junction - West Junction - Leicester Belgrave Road:
Ingersby station renamed Ingarsby 1939. Service withdrawn from line from Monday 7 December 1953, apart from one weekday round trip which was suspended 9 to 30 December 1956 and withdrawn from Monday 29 April 1957, and summer Saturday and Sunday through trains and excursions - serving only Leicester, Humberstone and Thurnby & Scraptoft - to east coast resorts until last trains Sunday 9 September 1962.

[Leicester -] Marefield West Junction - South Junction [- Peterborough GN]:
service withdrawn from Saturday 1 April 1916.

[Nottingham -] Marefield North Junction - South Junction - East Norton [- Market Harborough]:
service withdrawn from Monday 7 December 1953.

[Nottingham -] East Norton - Hallaton Junction - Welham Junction [- Market Harborough]:
service withdrawn Monday 7 December 1953, apart from one weekday unadvertised round trip between East Norton and Market Harborough which was withdrawn from Monday 20 May 1957.

[Leicester -] Hallaton Junction - Medbourne - Drayton Junction [- Peterborough GN]:
service withdrawn from Saturday 1 April 1916.

Although services from Northampton to Nottingham via the joint line and from Newark to Nottingham via Bottesford West Junction ceased from Monday 7 December 1953, some sources incorrectly imply that services between Newark and Northampton ceased from this date - in fact, there had been no such facility since World War I.

What is believed to have been the last passenger train over the remaining portions of the joint line was the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society's Joint Lines Rail Tour on Saturday 18 May 1963, formed of eight coaches with Class 5 loco. no. 45238 of Nottingham heading it (11). The route was: Nottingham London Road Low Level - Bottesford West Jn - Bottesford South Jn - Melton Mowbray North (stop) - Marefield North Jn - Marefield West Jn - Leicester Belgrave Road (run round) - Marefield West Jn - Marefield North Jn - John O'Gaunt (run round) - Hallaton Jn - Welham Jn - Market Harborough LNWR. From here the train returned to Nottingham without use of the joint line - via Uppingham, Luffenham, Cottesmore, Melton Mowbray Town and Old Dalby. Subsequently there were at least two brake van trips, carrying Branch Line Society members, on the "isolated" GN section between Leicester Belgrave Road and Humberstone - using the short-lived connection from the Midland line - on 12 December 1964 and 1 March 1968.

Newark - Bottesford West Junction:
last regular freight traffic was oil in trainloads from Humberside to the Total Oil terminal at Rectory Junction (Nottingham). The last revenue use is recorded as return tank cars on Saturday 18 April 1987, the diversion of these trains via Grantham having been effected as soon as a freight loop there had been extended to accommodate them. The Newark - Bottesford line was taken out of commission on Sunday 5 June 1988.

Saxondale Junction - Barnstone APCM Cement Works/Lime Siding:
closed from Monday 10 September 1962, the curve from Bottesford West to South having been restored to through running; from this date, access to Barnstone was via Bottesford West Junction and Stathern Junction.

Barnstone APCM Cement Works/Lime Siding - Stathern Junction:
closed from Monday 1 January 1968 (note: APCM became Blue Circle Cement 1 June 1978).

Marefield North Junction - Welham Junction:
closed from Monday 4 November 1963 (9).

Marefield West Junction - South Junction:
closed during the World War I (probably with the withdrawal of the passenger service from Saturday 1 April 1916). The south junction points were removed in November 1929 and the remainder lifted in March 1930.

Hallaton Junction - Drayton Junction:
closed from Saturday 1 April 1916 although remaining for wagon storage until World War II. Drayton Junction removed Tuesday 2 January 1945 and Hallaton Junction removed Sunday 29 December 1946.

Leicester Belgrave Road - Catherine Street bridge [Shell Mex/BP oil siding]:
closed 14 December 1964 (7).

Catherine Street bridge [Shell Mex/BP oil siding] - Leicester East Junction - Morton Road bridge:
closed with final private siding (Shell Mex/BP oil siding) from Wednesday 1 January 1969 (8) (and put out of use Wednesday 2 April 1969 (1)).

Humberstone Road Junction - Leicester East Junction:
constructed ca. 1882/3 to connect the GN at Leicester East Junction with the Midland at Humberstone Road Junction; apparently never used, and severed (at the Midland end) 8 June 1908. Restored and opened Monday 1 June 1964 to become the means of serving Humberstone and Belgrave Road after closure of the line to Melton Mowbray; closed again from Wednesday 1 January 1969 (8) (and put out of use Wednesday 2 April 1969 (1)).

Morton Road bridge - Humberstone:
closed from Monday 1 May 1967 (9).

Humberstone - Marefield North Junction - Sysonby Junction - Melton Mowbray North:
closed from Monday 1 June 1964 (9).

Melton Junction - Sysonby Junction:
first severed 31 October 1882 but reopened 16 April 1883 and finally closed from Monday 18 April 1887 (contemporaneously with the opening of the Midland’s Holwell branch which joined the GN's Waltham-on-the-Wold branch at Wycombe Junction).

Melton Mowbray North - Scalford - Stathern Ironstone Siding:
closed from Monday 7 September 1964 (although the line remained in the Sectional Appendix until at least 1967).

Scalford - Wycombe Junction - Waltham-on-the-Wold - Eaton Siding :
closed from Monday 4 May 1964 (3). Clinker's Register and BR’s weekly traffic notices at the time recorded a private siding as still being retained but this was in error. Lifting of the line commenced Monday 1 February 1965 and was completed within two months (5). Despite the Post Office and the Ordnance Survey using Waltham on the Wolds (no hyphens, plural Wolds), the railway settled on the form Waltham-on-the-Wold (hyphens, singular Wold) (6).

Stathern Ironstone Siding - Harby & Stathern:
formally closed from Monday 2 October 1967 - but traffic had actually ceased when Stewarts & Lloyds Minerals’ loading staff at Eastwell (the last traffic feeding Stathern Ironstone Siding, by road at that stage) were paid off on Saturday 25 February 1967 (4). The line was - in the words of the Weekly Operating Notice - "put out of use pending removal" from Wednesday 20 December 1967.

Harby & Stathern - Stathern Junction - Redmile (for the Air Ministry private siding):
formally closed (with the line from Barnstone) from Monday 1 January 1968 (although the Weekly Operating Notice recorded that it "will be closed" from Monday 19 February 1968).

Redmile (for the Air Ministry private siding) - Bottesford West Junction:
converted to one engine in steam operation from 19 February 1986, However, Monday 1 January 1968 probably marked the effective end of traffic for although the Air Ministry private siding agreement was not formally determined until Sunday 31 August 1969 (2), there is believed to have been little or no actual traffic. The line itself was notionally available for movements until Saturday 12 December 1970, the points at Bottesford West Junction being removed on Sunday 28 October 1973.

Of the curves at Bottesford, that from North to South closed from Sunday 18 February 1962, that from South to East closed from Monday 10 September 1962 (the day after the last of the seasonal weekend passenger trains at Leicester Belgrave Road), that from West to South having seen little use was severed at the south end in 1895 to be restored and reopened from Monday 10 September 1962 and finally closed with the line to Redmile (see above), while that from North to West closed with the Newark line (see above). There was no curve from North to East.