Coalville Town railway station

Coalville Town

Site of Coalville Town station, 1988
Location
Place Coalville
Area North West Leicestershire
Coordinates 52°43′26″N 1°22′19″W / 52.724°N 1.372°WCoordinates: 52°43′26″N 1°22′19″W / 52.724°N 1.372°W
Grid reference SK425142
Operations
Original company Leicester and Swannington Railway
Pre-grouping Midland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
27 April 1833 Station opened as Long Lane
27 March 1848 Renamed Coalville
2 June 1924 Renamed Coalville Town
7 September 1964 station closed [1]
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Coalville Town was a railway station at Coalville in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. It was opened as Long Lane in 1833 and British Railways closed it on 7 September 1964 when passenger services were ended on the line. The line remains open for frieght only.[1]

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 with a level crossing controlled by an impressive signal box[2][3] which was removed in 1986 and preserved at the former Snibston Colliery.[4][5] All the other station buildings have been demolished though the nearby former Railway public house is now a children's nursery.

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". 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 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. 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.

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.[6]

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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. ↑ http://tillyweb.biz/pmc/Coalvillestationxing1975pmc1.jpg
  3. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/loose_grip_99/2980137605/
  4. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/loose_grip_99/4790482830/
  5. ↑ http://www.snibston.com/
  6. ↑ "Connecting Communities - expanding access to the rail network" (PDF). London: Association of Train Operating Companies. June 2009. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2015.

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