Coalville Town railway station
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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 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| 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 in 1833 and closed in 1964, although the line remains in use for freight.
History
The station was opened as Long Lane in 1833, being renamed Coalville in 1848 and finally Coalville Town in 1924, to distinguish it from Coalville East on the rival Charnwood Forest Railway. British Railways closed Coalville Town on 7 September 1964 when passenger services were ended on the line. The line remains open for freight only.[1] Coalville Town was the most important station between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent and was built to fuller dimensions to reflect this.
The station straddled the A50 road with a level crossing controlled by a signal box[2][3] that was removed in 1986 and re-erected at the former Snibston Colliery.[4] All the other station buildings have been demolished. The former Railway pub next to the level crossing 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.[5]
| 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 2 Butt, RVJ (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
- ↑ Churchman, Peter M. "Coalville Crossing in 1975". Signalling: British Railways: The Peter Churchman Collection. Tillyweb.
- ↑ "Coalville Leicestershire". Flickr. 13 March 1979.
- ↑ "Snibston Coalville Leicestershire". Flickr. 13 July 2010.
- ↑ "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.
