Snells Nook Halt railway station

Coordinates: 52°45′44″N 1°15′46″W / 52.7621°N 1.2627°W

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Snells Nook Halt
General information
Location	Loughborough, Charnwood England
Coordinates	52°45′44″N 1°15′46″W / 52.7621°N 1.2627°W / 52.7621; -1.2627
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Charnwood Forest Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 April 1907 (1907-04-02)	Station opened
13 April 1931 (1931-04-13)	Station closed

Snells Nook Halt railway station was a station on the Charnwood Forest Railway. Near the village of Nanpantan, on the outskirts of Loughborough, Leicestershire.

It opened on 2 April 1907^[1] as a stop on the line between Loughborough Derby Road and Coalville East.

The halt closed on 13 April 1931 when passenger services on the line were withdrawn.^[2] Today, nothing remains of the halt but the line is still traceable.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ "Longcliffe Hotel, Nanpantan. Easter Holidays 1907". Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News. England. 28 March 1907. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Stations closing to passengers". Leicester Evening Mail. England. 8 April 1931. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Snells Nook Halt Railway Station". www.shackerstonefestival.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ "Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site". www.geocaching.com. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ "England's Lost Country Houses | Garendon Hall". www.lostheritage.org.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ "The Charnwood Forest Railway". www.oocities.org. Retrieved 4 November 2020.

Route

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Shepshed Line and station closed		London and North Western Railway Charnwood Forest Railway		Loughborough Derby Road Line and station closed

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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