The station opened on the 15th march 1899, as part of the london extention of the Great Central main line. It was built to the typical design of the railway - access to the station was gained from the bridge, and the buildings consisted of a Station Master's office, a large canopy, a waiting room and ladies toilets, and a small gents toilet, with no roof. The Idea of a toilet with out a roof seems strange now...
The Railway closed on 5th May 1969, but the platform and buildings stayed standing. My dad and his siblings used the station as a playground! Apparently they used to throw rocks into the soot that had accumalated under the bridge, and half the time the rocks would simply disappear and not fall to the ground again! He used to cycle along the trackbed to lutterworth and play in a small room under the bridge. However, the land was soon sold off and the village playgroung demolished. Today you can still see where the track once lay, but it is now the property of Coltman's Timber Merchants. The only real remainder of the station is the cattle dock, in the middle of the timber merchants.
The cattle dock as it is today.
The bridge has been filled in, and the only remaining structure that was once on the platform is now buried. The lamp hut was built into the bridge itself, and therefore is about three metres under the road. To put it all in perspective, stand on the bridge facing the timber merchants, and had you done the same thing in may 1965, this is what you would have seen - 
The Cache Itself is a small clip-top box with a logbook and pen, and plenty of room for swaps! Be careful with the younger cachers though, as it is a busy road and there's no pavement on the side of the road the cache is hidden on, just a small verge.
And, if your wondering why it's Ashby Magna station when it's closer to Dunton Basset, It's because Ashby Magna has a huge parish, and the site of the station is within said parish.
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