Coalville Town railway station

Coalville Town
Location
Place	Coalville
Area	North West Leicestershire
Coordinates	52°43′26″N 1°22′19″W / 52.724°N 1.372°W / 52.724; -1.372Coordinates: 52°43′26″N 1°22′19″W / 52.724°N 1.372°W / 52.724; -1.372
Grid reference	SK425142
Operations
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
1894	station opened
7 September 1964	station closed
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Coalville Town was a railway station at Coalville in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The Midland Railway opened the station in 1894 and British Railways closed it on 7th September 1964.

Coalville Town was the most important station between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent and was built to fuller dimensions to reflect this. It was called Coalville Town to distinguish it from Coalville East on the rival Charnwood Forest Railway.

The station straddled the A50 road. Its former booking office is now a children's nursery beside the level crossing.

Motive power depot

British Railways closed Mantle Lane motive power depot at Coalville in 1990. Its "Category A" status was a clerical error, and was in fact a "Category C".^{[clarification needed]} The British Railways depot on the site was unusual in that it had no fuelling points, fitters or any other shed facilities. Locomotives would be taken in ferries^{[clarification needed]} to nearby Burton-on-Trent (until it closed) or Leicester for refuelling, water and sandbox filling. This perhaps shows why it was a surprise to find it as an A-listed depot.^{[clarification needed]} Little remains at the site which hints at its formerly busy railway past. Two tracks remain where once lay four 'on shed' as it were.^{[clarification needed]}

Reopening proposals

In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services between Leicester and Burton as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project. However, after the privatisation of British Rail in 1995 this phase of the project was discontinued. In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £49 million proposal to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Coalville.^[1]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Bardon Hill Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line		Swannington Line open, station closed
Hugglescote Line open, station closed				branch to Coleorton Tramway Line and station closed

References

1. ^ Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network. London: Association of Train Operating Companies. 2009. p. 19. http://www.atoc.org/latest-publications. 

External links

• http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/