Ashby de la Zouch railway station

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Ashby de la Zouch
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The station building in 2006
General information
Location Ashby de la Zouch, North West Leicestershire
England
Coordinates 52°44′34″N1°28′29″W / 52.7429°N 1.4748°W / 52.7429; -1.4748
Grid reference SK355162
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Midland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 August 1849Station opened as Ashby
7 September 1964Station closed

Ashby de la Zouch railway station is a former railway station at Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The Midland Railway opened it in 1849 and British Railways closed it in 1964.

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The station is a small Neoclassical building, with side pavilions and Doric columns in keeping with the nearby Royal Hotel of 1826. [1] It is a Grade II* listed building. [2]

History

The Midland Railway opened the station on 1 August 1849 as part of its new line between Swannington and Burton-on-Trent. The station was built partly on the remains of the horse-drawn Ticknall Tramway, which previously connected Ticknall lime quarries with the Ashby Canal.

In 1874 the Midland extended its Derby to Melbourne line to Ashby de la Zouch, partly using the route of the former Ticknall Tramway. The junction with the Leicester to Burton-on-Trent line was just west of Ashby station, so for a time the branch was served by a separate station a short distance from the 1849 building.

Ashby station forecourt was also a terminus for the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge Burton and Ashby Light Railway, a tramway between Ashby and Burton upon Trent, built by the MR and closed on 19 February 1927. Tram lines for the Burton and Ashby Light Railway are still visible in the forecourt.

The line became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway under the Grouping of 1923. In the nationalisation of transport in Britain in 1948 the line passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways. British Railways withdrew passenger services and closed Ashby station on 7 September 1964. The line continues to be used by freight services.

Stationmasters

  • Ebenezer Weston ca. 1851
  • Botterell Jordan until 1862
  • William E. Oldham 1862 [3] - ca. 1866
  • John Joseph Mumford 1870 - 1873 [4]
  • Alfred Everett 1873 - 1908 [5]
  • Thomas William Coltman 1908 - 1922 [6]
  • William Cope 1922 - 1931 [7] (formerly station master at Duffield)
  • A.H. Glastonbury 1931 - 1937 [8] (formerly station master at Denby)
  • W. Slater from 1937

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 Ashby. [9]

In 2018 the Campaign for the Reopening of the Ivanhoe Line (CRIL) [10] – a community voluntary action group – was set up with the aim of restoring passenger services to the Burton to Leicester railway line. Although CRIL's aims include a station at Ashby, its exact location has not yet been defined, as the Ashby station building is now privately owned. [11]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Swannington
Line open, station closed		  Midland Railway
Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line 		  Moira
Line open, station closed
Worthington
Line closed, station closed		  Midland Railway
Melbourne Line 		  Moira
Line open, station closed

Notes

  1. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1960). Leicestershire and Rutland. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 54.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Former Midland railway station (1361623)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "1859-1866". Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts: 307. 1914. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. ↑ "1871-1879 Coaching". Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts: 488. 1871. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Midland Railway Station Changes" . Sheffield Independent. England. 18 September 1908. Retrieved 25 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ↑ "Ashby Stationmaster's Retirement" . Burton Observer and Chronicle. England. 20 May 1922. Retrieved 25 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "Ashby Stationmaster Retiring" . Burton Observer and Chronicle. England. 17 September 1931. Retrieved 25 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ↑ "Just a few lines to say that…" . Leicester Chronicle. England. 29 May 1937. Retrieved 25 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ↑ "Connecting Communities – Expanding Access to the Rail Network" (PDF). London: Association of Train Operating Companies. June 2009. p. 19. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "About CRIL - The Campaign to Reopen the Ivanhoe Line". www.ivanhoeline.org. Archived from the original on 21 August 2019.
  11. ↑ "Heritage Locations". www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk.

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