 Three railway lines once passed through Linby, with stations on two of them.The first was the Midland Railway (later part of the LMS) line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop, closed to passengers on 12 October 1964 though partly retained as a freight route serving collieries at Annesley.In the 1990s this line was reopened to passengers in stages, the section through Linby in 1993, but Linby station did not reopen with it.