Area District of Harborough 1 May 1891 renamed East Langton Original company Midland Railway | 2 October 1876 opens as Langton 1 January 1968 station closes Platforms in use 2 | |
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Place East Langton, Leicestershire Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Similar Old Dalby railway station, Bardon Hill railway station, Asfordby railway station, Brooksby railway station | ||
East Langton railway station was opened by the Midland Railway on what is now the Midland Main Line, initially calling it simply Langton.
History
The station was opened on 2 October 1876. A large party of Langtonians marked their appreciation by buying tickets for the 09.07 train to Kibworth, and returned by the 10.01.
The station was designed by Charles Henry Driver and the contractors were Mason and Son of Kibworth. The station had two platforms with neat Midland pattern timber buildings. The booking office was on the southbound up line, with a small waiting-room on the down. There was no footbridge and the line was crossed by a barrow crossing at the northern end. To the north were long sidings on either side of the running lines capable of handling trains of 30 to 41 wagons - typical for Victorian trains of the period. The signal box was next to these on the down side. Southbound LNWR trains also used the line on their way to a junction at Market Harborough and would signal their presence to the box by means of three whistles.
It was renamed East Langton in 1891 though it also served West Langton, Church Langton, Thorpe Langton and Tur Langton.
At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
It closed in 1968. Although the station itself was demolished upon closure the site is now privately owned and even though most of the features have also been demolished a number do still remain, parts of the platform still exist, parts of the first loading dock are still constructed and the second loading dock is complete in its entirety. The current owner of the site was informed that the station was bulldosed into part of the embankment and objects surface every now and then. There have been a number of small digs to recover items over the years but nothing significant has emerged.