Hugglescote railway station

Coordinates: 52°42′18″N 1°22′22″W / 52.705121°N 1.372884°W

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Hugglescote
General information
Location	Hugglescote, North West Leicestershire England
Coordinates	52°42′18″N 1°22′22″W / 52.705121°N 1.372884°W / 52.705121; -1.372884
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
Pre-grouping	Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
18 August 1873 - 1 September 1873	Opened to goods
1 September 1873	Opened to passengers
13 April 1931	Station closed to passengers^[1]
6 July 1965	Line closed to traffic

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

References

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

External links

http://www.shackerstonefestival.co.uk/ANJR/Hhugglescote.htm

v t e Closed railway stations in Leicestershire and Rutland
Leicester and Swannington Railway	Coalville Town Bardon Hill Bagworth and Ellistown Incline House Thornton Lane Merry Lees Desford Ratby Glenfield (Leicestershire) Leicester West Bridge
Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway	Overseal Donisthorpe Measham Snarestone Hugglescote Heather and Ibstock Stoke Golding Higham on the Hill
Charnwood Forest Railway	Loughborough Derby Road Snells Nook Halt Shepshed Grace Dieu Halt Thringstone Halt Whitwick Coalville East
Melbourne line	Wilson Tonge and Breedon Worthington
Leicester–Burton upon Trent line	Moira Ashby de la Zouch Swannington Kirby Muxloe Braunstone (Leicester)
GNR & LNWR Joint Railway	Harby and Stathern Long Clawson and Hose Scalford Melton Mowbray North Great Dalby John O' Gaunt Leicester Belgrave Road Humberstone Thurnby and Scraptoft Ingarsby Lowesby Tilton East Norton Hallaton Medbourne
Midland Counties Railway	Cossington Gate Wigston South Countesthorpe Broughton Astley Leire Halt Ullesthorpe
Nottingham and Melton Railway	Edwalton Plumtree Widmerpool Upper Broughton Old Dalby Grimston
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway	Saxby Edmondthorpe and Wymondham
Syston and Peterborough Railway	ROF Queniborough Rearsby Brooksby Frisby Asfordby Whissendine Ashwell Manton Luffenham Ketton and Collyweston
Rugby and Stamford Railway	Lilbourne Welford and Kilworth Theddingworth Lubenham Rockingham Seaton Morcott Wakerley and Barrowden
Midland Main Line	Hathern Humberstone Road Leicester Campbell Street Welford Road Wigston Magna Great Glen Kibworth East Langton
South Leicestershire Railway	Elmesthorpe Croft railway station, Leicester Blaby Wigston Glen Parva
Great Central Main Line	Loughborough Central Quorn and Woodhouse Rothley Belgrave and Birstall Leicester Central Whetstone Ashby Magna Lutterworth
Stamford and Essendine Railway	Essendine Ryhall
Other	Uppingham Waltham-on-the-Wolds Castle Donington and Shardlow Weston on Trent

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