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    Wigston Magna railway station was a railway station serving Wigston Magna in Leicestershire. In 1857 the Midland Railway opened its new main line to Hitchin...
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    Wigston, or Wigston Magna, is a town in the Oadby and Wigston district of Leicestershire, England, just south of Leicester on the A5199. It had a population...
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  • Wigston railway station has been the name of two stations on the Midland Railway in Leicestershire, England. Wigston railway station on the Midland Counties...
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    Wigston South railway station, originally named Wigston station, was a railway station serving Wigston Magna in Leicestershire. Following the arrival of...
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    noticeboard. Wigston once had three railway stations: Wigston South on the Midland Counties Railway opened in 1840 (dismantled), Wigston Magna on the Midland...
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  • Thumbnail for Wigston Glen Parva railway station
    Wigston Glen Parva railway station was a railway station on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line that served Glen Parva in Leicestershire, England. The...
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    University of Leicester: 13 September 2021. Wigston Magna, one of the two towns that form the borough South Wigston, the largest village in the borough Brocks...
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    Midland Railway's Wigston Junction, goods yard and Wigston Magna station and the South Leicestershire Railway's Glen Parva station. Industrial and residential...
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    Walter George Fudge 1892 - 1898 (formerly station master at Wixford, afterwards station master at Wigston Magna) Henry Dring 1898 - 1907 Thomas William...
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  • Thumbnail for Ashby Magna railway station
    Ashby Magna was a station on the Great Central Railway, the last main line to be constructed from the north of England to London, which opened in 1899...
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    the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway at Marefield Junction. The station opened on 1 January 1883. Marefield Junction was triangular...
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    Hinckley railway station serves the town of Hinckley and village of Burbage in Leicestershire, England. The station is on the CrossCountry Birmingham to...
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    Hinckley, Lutterworth, Market Harborough, Melton Mowbray, Oadby, Shepshed and Wigston. Some of the larger of villages are: Burbage (population estimated around...
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  • Thumbnail for Humberstone railway station
    Humberstone railway station was a railway station serving the eastern side of Leicester. It was on the Great Northern Railway Leicester branch. The station opened...
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  • Thumbnail for Belgrave and Birstall railway station
    6686778; -1.1329778 Belgrave and Birstall railway station was a railway station opened by the Great Central Railway in 1899. It served the villages of Belgrave...
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    John O'Gaunt railway station was a railway station serving the villages of Twyford, John O'Gaunt and Burrough on the Hill in Leicestershire, England....
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    relatively fast turn-over of station masters. John Thomson ca. 1851 - 1874 J. Lambert 1874 - 1875 (afterwards station master at Wigston South) G.W. Fenton 1875...
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  • Thumbnail for Leicester Central railway station
    Leicester Central was a railway station in Leicester, England. It was situated to the west of the city centre, on Great Central Street which is today...
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    Lutterworth was a station which opened in 1899 to serve the Leicestershire market town of Lutterworth. It was situated on the Great Central Railway, the last...
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  • Thumbnail for Seaton railway station (Rutland)
    Seaton railway station was a station serving the villages of Seaton, Rutland, and Harringworth, Northamptonshire. It was originally a minor intermediate...
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  • Thumbnail for Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station
    Wymondham railway station was a station in Wymondham, Leicestershire. It also served the small hamlet of Edmondthorpe. It was Midland Railway property...
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    Midland Main Line (category Railway lines in the East Midlands)
    Latimer Glendon and Rushton Desborough East Langton Kibworth Great Glen Wigston Magna Leicester to Trent Junction Leicester Humberstone Road Cossington Gate...
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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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  • gentlemen's toilet block. The station was one of the earlier closures on the line closing to passengers in 1963; it, like nearby Ashby Magna, served a relatively...
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    Uppingham railway station was a station in Uppingham, Rutland. It was the terminus of a branch line from Seaton and opened in 1894 and closed in 1960...
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    Kibworth railway station was opened by the Midland Railway in 1857 on what is now the Midland Main Line. Plans had been made earlier in 1847 for a line...
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    was a railway station at Coalville in Leicestershire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line. Passenger business was carried out at the "Railway Hotel"...
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  • Ingarsby railway station was a railway station in Ingarsby, Leicestershire, on the Great Northern Railway Leicester branch. It opened in 1882, and closed...
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  • Thumbnail for Blaby railway station
    Blaby railway station was a railway station on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line that served Blaby in Leicestershire, England. The station was opened...
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  • Swannington railway station was a railway station at Swannington in North West Leicestershire, England. Swannington has had two railway stations. The first...
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