Kirby Muxloe railway station explained

Kirby Muxloe
Status:Disused
Borough:Kirby Muxloe, Blaby
Country:England
Coordinates:52.627°N -1.232°W
Grid Name:Grid reference
Pregroup:Midland Railway
Postgroup:London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Years:1859
Events:opened
Years1:1964
Events1:closed

Kirby Muxloe railway station was a station on the Midland Railway line between and that bypassed part of the Leicester and Swannington Railway in Leicestershire, England.

The Midland opened line through Kirby Muxloe in 1849, though Kirby Muxloe station did not open until 1859. The following year the Midland opened its line from to, making the line through Kirby Muxloe part of its through route between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent.

British Railways closed Kirby Muxloe station in 1964.[1] It was one of numerous railway stations closed at that time that Flanders and Swann included in their song Slow Train released that year.

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 Kirby Muxloe.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Quick, M E. Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. 2002. Railway and Canal Historical Society. Richmond. 252. 931112387.