Shenton railway station

Shenton
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	Shenton, Hinckley and Bosworth England
Coordinates	52°35′59.00″N1°24′55.00″W / 52.5997222°N 1.4152778°W / 52.5997222; -1.4152778
Grid reference	SK396004
Managed by	Battlefield Line Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
1 September 1873	opened
13 April 1931 [1]	closed for passengers
1965	closed entirely
Location

Shenton railway station is located about 1 mile from the village of Shenton, Leicestershire, England. It currently serves as a glassblowing studio Station Glass, cafe and ticket office. It is the southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway.

Shenton Station Pottery

It is the current southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to here from Shackerstone. The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed Humberstone Road railway station from Leicester. The original station closed in 1965 and was dismantled and relocated (except for a small lamp room that now serves as the Station Pottery).

The 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. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. ^[2]

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Market Bosworth towards Shackerstone		Battlefield Line Railway		Terminus
Disused railways
Market Bosworth Line and station open		Midland Railway, London and North Western Railway Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway		Stoke Golding Line and station closed

References

1. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 385. OCLC   931112387.
2. "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.