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    The LeicesterBurton upon Trent line is a freight-only railway line in England linking the Midland Main Line near Leicester to the Derby to Birmingham...
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    Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire...
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    Burton-on-Trent railway station is a mainline railway station located in the town of Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. It is owned by Network...
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    station is the reconstructed Humberstone Road station from Leicester. At the end of the line is a headshunt underneath an old cattle bridge. The small...
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    the failure of the Burton upon TrentLeicester development to go ahead, it is a curious anomaly, separated from the Ivanhoe line scheme. A similar anomaly...
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  • Thumbnail for Ashby de la Zouch railway station
    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...
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    Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. Passenger business was carried out at the "Railway Hotel" when the line opened in 1833 until...
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    the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The line was built for the Midland Railway and opened in 1849. Moira station was closed in 1964 but the line remains...
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    Carmarthen-Aberystwyth line Colne–Skipton, Skipton-East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership Great Central Railway Notts–Leicester Lynn and Hunstanton Railway...
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    through Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Staffordshire, Rugeley, Burton-upon-Trent and Nottingham before joining the River Ouse, Yorkshire at Trent Falls to form the...
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    originally planned that phase two would extend the line west to Burton upon Trent on the current freight-only line via Coalville and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. The possibility...
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    constructed only to the village of Moira. The town was served by the LeicesterBurton upon Trent line of the Midland Railway and had its own station. After the canal...
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    uses parts of the South Wales Main Line, Midland Main Line, Swinton–Doncaster line, and the East Coast Main Line. Major cities and towns served along...
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    vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and north of Middlewich, it is a wide canal. The narrow locks and...
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  • This is a list of people born in or otherwise associated with Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England. People are listed alphabetically within their...
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    Trent. The railway track was handed back to the LMS on 1 January 1945 who then submitted a bill of £25,265 to the War Department to restore the line but...
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    Isham and Burton Latimer Glendon and Rushton Desborough East Langton Kibworth Great Glen Wigston Magna Leicester to Trent Junction Leicester Humberstone...
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    Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway (category Pages with no gauge entered in Infobox rail line)
    the line was to be a double track route from Ashby, on the Midland line between Burton and Leicester, and Hinckley on the Nuneaton to Leicester line of...
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    line Maesteg Line Merthyr line Rhondda line Rhymney line Vale of Glamorgan Line Borderlands line Cambrian Line Conwy Valley line Heart of Wales line West...
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  • Thumbnail for Bagworth and Ellistown railway station
    Bagworth and Ellistown was a railway station on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line, that served the villages of Bagworth and Ellistown in Leicestershire...
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    viaduct was in excess of a mile and a half in length and it was upon this that Leicester Central station would be constructed. At the time of construction...
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  • Twells, H. N. (1985). A Pictorial Record of the Leicester and Burton Branch Railway. Burton-upon-Trent: Trent Valley Publications. ISBN 0-948131-04-7. Twining...
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    and Kettering and 2023 for the line further north to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. Again the upgrade to the line north of Kettering was shelved...
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    electric services started in July 2018. Chase Line electrification to be extended from Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley by 2017. There were delays in the original...
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  • Thumbnail for Bardon Hill railway station
    England, on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, which later became part of the Midland Railway's Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The village of...
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    England on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, which later became part of the Midland Railway's Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The original station...
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    the canal to the River Trent at Burton-on-Trent, and building tramways from the quarries to the river. Amalgamation with the Trent Navigation was considered...
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    its line from Coalville Town to Burton-on-Trent, making the line through Kirby Muxloe part of its through route between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent. British...
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  • Railway took over the line in 1845 and extended it westwards to Burton-on-Trent in 1848, creating the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. The extension avoided...
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    Midland Main Line. Most services ran between London St Pancras and either Derby, Nottingham or Sheffield. Some services extended to Burton upon Trent, Matlock...
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