Market Bosworth railway station

Market Bosworth
Market Bosworth
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	Market Bosworth, Hinckley and Bosworth ; England
Coordinates	52°37′28.50″N1°25′15.50″W / 52.6245833°N 1.4209722°W
Grid reference	SK392031
Managed by	Battlefield Line Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates
18 August 1873	opened to goods
1 September 1873	opened to passengers
13 April 1931	closed
1973	opened

Last updated October 02, 2023

Market Bosworth railway station is a former stop on the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway, who jointly operated the line between Moira West Junction and Nuneaton as the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[1]

The station is to the west of the market town of Market Bosworth.

Nowadays it is part of the heritage Battlefield Line Railway, some 3 miles (5 km) to the south of the railway's base at Shackerstone.

Original station buildings survive on platform 1, used by the private Station Garage. The track in platform one is a siding, used for the storage of wagons and diesel shunters in various states of disrepair. Platform 2 is on the running line and is the only one in use. The signal box also survives, as do several semaphore signals, though this signalling is not in commission thus the station is an unsignalled halt. The waiting room was originally at Chester Road on the Birmingham Cross-City Line; when this line was electrified between 1991 and 1993, the building was dismantled and reconstructed at Market Bosworth.

Volunteers have been slowly restoring the station. The station encountered severe vandalism at Easter 2008 with one building, the Permanent Way hut, completely destroyed by arson. Any windows that were originally intact in the signalbox were smashed. Nonetheless, the railway continues to restore the station. In May 2009, a passenger train hauled by LNER Thompson Class B1 No. 61306 halted at the station for the first time in at least ten years to allow passengers to see the progress at the station.

On the weekend of 19–20 March 2011, completion of a foot crossing at the south end of the station enabled it to be opened to the public for the first time. There is a car park in the former goods yard but only very basic facilities for passengers.

There is a long-term aspiration to restore the passing loop at the station to allow two train operation over the line.

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References

↑ "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.

"Market Bosworth station". Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2011.

Preceding station	Heritage railways		Following station
Shackerstone		Battlefield Line Railway	Shenton
	Historical railways
Shackerstone Line and station open		Midland Railway, London and North Western Railway Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway	Shenton Line and station open

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[1] "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.

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