In August 1910, Miss Grace Clark, 21, whose father ran the Nottingham Mills Company, was travelling in a 3rd class compartment between Nottingham and Trent, to take part in a tennis match. As the train was pulling out of Nottingham Midland station a young man jumped into the compartment. A few miles from Trent he snatched her satchel and hit her in the face. The girl pulled the communication cord, grabbed her tennis racket and started hitting him back. The man wrenched it from her hands and sit her about the head until she collapsed. As the train slowed down approaching Trent, he jumped out with her purse and ran across the fields. A ticket inspector at Trent Station found the girl on the floor and raised the alarm. Police scoured the area on bicycles and eventually caught the man, Percy Pickering, at Thrumpton Ferry.
In September 1910 Mademoiselle Helene Dutrieu, the famous Belgian pilot, flew her Farman biplane from Doncaster to Burton on Trent for an aviation event there. It was normal at the time for pilots to navigate using railway lines and other obvious features and her route was Retford, Newark, Nottingham, turning right at Trent Junction to Derby and then down to Burton.
Later that month, Moses Holland, a 65-year old scissor grinder from Keyworth, refused to show his ticket at Trent Station and behaved violently. The staff phoned the police, but when a policeman arrived, he found the man had gone. He was found at Trent Lock with his son and grandchildren. When the policeman tried to grab him, Moses dived into the canal and swam across. As the policeman ran around via the bridge, Moses took off his coat and dived into the River Trent, shouting “If you want me, you’ll have to swim for it”. A crowd of people watched him swim strongly across the 200 yard-wide river until he sank a few yards from the far bank. His body was found an hour later.
On 30th December 1911 two men stayed in Hathern and asked about the local milk business. The next morning, they caught the train in which some milk was sent to Hull, one of the men distracted the porter where the milk was being loaded, before they got into a nearby compartment. The men got off at Trent Station but when the milk arrived in Hull it was 3 gallons short.
In the early hours of Sunday 7th June 1914, the body of a man identified as Harry Hough was found on the tracks ¼ mile south of Trent Junction. He was a 23 and originally from Cheshire. He had been employed by Rolls Royce as a motor fitter in Derby, where he had lodgings, but seems to have quit his job on the Friday. He had spent Saturday at the horse races at Manchester.