Loughborough railway station

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Loughborough
Location
Place	Loughborough
Local authority	Charnwood (borough)
Operations
Managed by	Midland Main Line
Platforms in use	3
Annual entry/exit 02/03	0.519 million *
History
Key dates	Opened 1872
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Loughborough railway station serves the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England. Situated on the Midland Main Line, 20 km (12½ miles) north of Leicester, the station lies to the north-east of the town centre.

1 History
2 Service patterns
3 Reference
4 External links

[edit] History

The original station (opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway, which was shortly to join the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway) was sited a little further south.

The present station was built in 1872 when the track was quadrupled and has retained much of its characteristically Midland Railway architecture, apart from the fact that its canopies have been cut back.

It became known as "Loughborough Midland" when Loughborough had three stations; Loughborough Derby Road (LNWR) and Loughborough Central (Great Central Railway), both of which are now closed.

[edit] Service patterns

1 train per hour to Leicester calling at:

Barrow-upon-Soar, Sileby, Syston, and Leicester

1 train per hour to Lincoln calling at:

Nottingham, Carlton, Burton Joyce, Bleasby, Fiskerton, Rolleston, Newark Castle, Collingham, Swinderby, Hykeham, and Lincoln Central

2 trains per hour to London calling at:

Leicester and London St Pancras

Leicester, Market Harborough, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford, Luton or Luton Airport Parkway, and London St Pancras

1 train per hour to Nottingham calling at

Nottingham only

1 train per hour to Derby calling at:

Long Eaton and Derby

1 train per day in the early morning to Norwich calling at:

Melton Mowbray railway station, Oakham, Stamford, Peterborough and stations to Norwich

[edit] Reference

Higginson, M, (1989) The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust.

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for Loughborough railway station from National Rail
Street map and aerial photo of Loughborough railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station		Following station
Barrow-upon-Soar	Central Trains Leicester – Lincoln	Nottingham
Leicester	Midland Mainline London – Nottingham	Beeston*
Leicester	Midland Mainline London – Derby	Long Eaton*
* Most, but not all, trains on this service call here