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Heather and Ibstock railway station is a disused railway station on the former 
Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was a pre-grouping railway company in the English Midlands, built to serve the Leicestershire coalfield. Both the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) wished to build a line on simi ...
. It served the village of Heather and town of Ibstock
Ibstock is a former coal mining town and civil parish about south of Coalville in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 5,760 at the 2001 census increasing to 6,201 at the 2011 census.
The town is on the ...
. It was originally named Heather, but with the industrial expansion of nearby Ibstock the request to have it renamed to include that town was accepted in 1894. It closed to passengers in 1931 but closed to parcel traffic in 1951. Goods continued to pass through until 1954 when the line was closed from Hugglescote to Shackerstone. The site has since been demolished and is now part of a housing estate which now occupies the entire former station site.
References
*http://www.shackerstonefestival.co.uk/ANJR/Hheather_and_ibstock.htm *https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3627882 {{Closed stations Leicestershire and Rutland Disused railway stations in Leicestershire Former Midland Railway stations Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1931