Tonge and Breedon | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Tonge, North West Leicestershire |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.8114°N -1.3829°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Original: | Midland Railway |
Pregroup: | Midland Railway |
Postgroup: | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Years1: | 1 October 1869[1] |
Events1: | Line opened |
Years2: | 22 Sept 1930 |
Events2: | Passenger service withdrawn |
Years3: | 1939 |
Events3: | Line becomes Melbourne Military Railway |
Years4: | 1945 |
Events4: | Line returned to LMS |
Years5: | 21 May 1980 |
Events5: | Line closed to freight traffic |
Tonge and Breedon railway station was a station at Tonge that served the adjacent village of Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England.
It was opened on 1 October 1869[1] by the Midland Railway on an extension of the Melbourne Line from Melbourne to .
In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was using the line only for freight services.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.