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Shenton railway station

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Place
  
Shenton

Grid reference
  
SK396004

1931
  
closed for passengers

Area
  
Hinckley and Bosworth

1873
  
opened

Platforms in use
  
1


Managed by
  
Battlefield Line Railway

Similar
  
Market Bosworth railway st, Bosworth Battlefield Heritage, Bottesford railway station, Market Bosworth Country P, Syston railway station

Shenton railway station is located about 0.5 miles from the village of Shenton, Leicestershire, England.

It is the current southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to here from Shackerstone. The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed Humberstone Road Station from Leicester. The original station closed in 1965 and was dismantled and relocated (except for a small lamp room that now serves as the Station Pottery).

The station is a former stop on the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway, who jointly operated the line between Moira West Junction and Nuneaton. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.

References

Shenton railway station Wikipedia