Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station

Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station

Edmonthorpe and Wymondham railway station was a station in Wymondham, Leicestershire. It also served the small hamlet of Edmondthorpe. [British Railways Atlas.1947. p.16] It was Midland Railway property but train services were operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway. It was closed in 1959 along with most of the M&GN. [ [http://www.thesectionalappendix.co.uk/MIDGSJTJ17.html Midland Lines ] ] Nearby Whissendine railway station on the Leicester to Peterborough line was originally named Wymondham, but had been renamed by 1863. [Bradshaws General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, Feb 1863.]


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