Hinckley railway station explained

Hinckley
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Hinckley, Hinckley and Bosworth
Country:England
Coordinates:52.535°N -1.3719°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:East Midlands Railway[1]
Platforms:2
Code:HNK[2]
Classification:DfT category E
Original:South Leicestershire Railway
Pregroup:London and North Western Railway
Postgroup:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Years:1861
Events:Opened
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Zoom:14

Hinckley railway station serves the town of Hinckley and village of Burbage in Leicestershire, England.

The station is on the CrossCountry Birmingham to Peterborough Line between and and is about 4miles east of .

The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, who do not operate services from this station. Only CrossCountry operate trains from here.[3]

A full range of tickets for travel is available from the station ticket office when it is open (06:40—13:00 Monday to Saturday, closed on Sundays), or at other times from either the ticket machines or the guard on the train at no extra cost.[4]

History

The station was opened in 1861 as part of the South Leicestershire Railway,[5] which was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in 1867.[6]

Services

There are services to and : usually one train in each direction every hour (including Sundays).[7] [8] There is one early morning train per day to Stansted Airport on weekdays only, plus three additional peak services as far as . There is also one late evening train a day to .

Buses operate from outside the station around the town and also to Magna Park and Lutterworth. The station is also just a short walk from The Crescent bus station where a large number of services can be caught to farther destinations and also smaller nearby villages.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hinckley (Leics) (HNK). National Rail.
  2. Web site: Deaves . Phil . Railway Codes . CRS, NLC, TIPLOC and STANOX Codes Railway Codes.
  3. Web site: Hinckley (Leics) Train Station. Cross Country Trains.
  4. Web site: Hinckley (Leics). East Midlands Railway.
  5. Web site: Railway . Hinckley . 11 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091231090413/http://www.hinckley.netfirms.com/Hinckley%20-%20R.htm . 31 December 2009 .
  6. Web site: Series reference RAIL 636 . 5 October 2011 . The Catalogue . The National Archives.
  7. Web site: Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff - Sunday 11 December 2022 – Saturday 20 May 2023. Cross Country Trains.
  8. Web site: Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff - Sunday 21 May 2023 – Saturday 09 December 2023. 21 May 2023. Cross Country Trains.