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Tonge and Breedon railway station

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Place
  
Tonge

Pre-grouping
  
Midland Railway

Original company
  
Midland Railway

Grid reference
  
SK416239

1874
  
Line opened

Area
  
North West Leicestershire

Post-grouping
  
London, Midland and Scottish Railway

Similar
  
Asfordby railway station, East Langton railway st, Old Dalby railway station, Medbourne railway station, Brooksby railway station

Tonge and Breedon railway station was a station at Tonge that served the adjacent village of Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England. It was on a Midland Railway line built in 1874 from Melbourne to a junction on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line near Ashby de la Zouch.

In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was using the line only for freight services. During the Second World War the line became the Melbourne Military Railway. In 1945 the War Department returned the line and station to the LMS.

In 1980 British Railways closed the line and by the 1990s the track had been dismantled. The trackbed through the former station is now part of National Cycle Route 6.

References

Tonge and Breedon railway station Wikipedia