Hugglescote railway station

Hugglescote railway station is a disused railway station on the former Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway. It served the large village of Hugglescote where it joined the Leicester - Burton line and Charnwood Forest Railway. It closed in 1931[2] to passengers but closed to parcel traffic in 1951. Goods continued to pass through until 1965 when the line was closed from Coalville to Shackerstone. The site has since been demolished and is now overgrown. It was briefly used for a conveyor but this has since been removed. The photograph shows the site of the station yard, the station was immediately behind this point of view.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Coalville
Line and station closed		   Midland Railway,
London and North Western Railway
Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway		   Heather and Ibstock
Line and station closed
Coalville East
Line and station closed		   London and North Western Railway
Charnwood Forest Railway		   Heather and Ibstock
Line and station closed

Hugglescote
General information
LocationHugglescote, North West Leicestershire
England
Coordinates 52.705121°N 1.372884°W / 52.705121; -1.372884
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyAshby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
Pre-groupingAshby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
Post-groupingLondon Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
18 August 1873 - 1 September 1873Opened to goods
1 September 1873Opened to passengers
13 April 1931Station closed to passengers[1]
6 July 1965Line closed to traffic
Disused trackbed in 1995, in use as route for a conveyor belt

References
  1. "Stations closing to passengers". Leicester Evening Mail. England. 8 April 1931. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 235. OCLC 931112387.
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