Tonge and Breedon railway station was a station at
Tonge that served the adjacent village of
Breedon-on-the-Hill,
Leicestershire
Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands, England. The county borders Nottinghamshire to the north, Lincolnshire to the north-east, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire t ...
, England.
History
It was opened on 1 October 1869
[ 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In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the ]London, Midland and Scottish Railway
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, was using the line only for freight services. During the Second World War the line became the Melbourne Military Railway
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. In 1945 the War Department returned the line and station to the LMS.
In 1980 British Rail
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ways 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.
Stationmasters
*W. Borth until 1872[ (afterwards station master at Fiskerton)
*S. Poole 1873 - 1874][ (afterwards station master at South Wigston)
*George Hall 1874 - 1876][ (afterwards station master at Broughton)
*A.H. Walker 1876 - 1877][
*G. Hall 1877 - 1880][
*William Walker 1880][ - 1883][ (afterwards station master at Wadborough)
*William Henry Payne 1884 - 1886][ (afterwards station master at Burton Joyce)
*A.W. Baker 1886 - 1888][
*W. Clark 1888- 1889][ (formerly station master at Cradoc, afterwards station master at Longstow)
*S. Hart 1889 - 1891][ (afterwards station master at Worthington)
*G. Albutt 1891 - 1894][ afterwards station master at Worthington)
*E.J. Watkley 1894 - 1895][ (afterwards station master at Walsall Wood)
*A.H. Scott 1895][ - 1902][ (afterwards station master at Little Eaton)
*Thomas Tongue 1906][ - 1914]
Route
References
{{Closed stations Leicestershire and Rutland
Disused railway stations in Leicestershire
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1869
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930