t was built by the Midland Railway on the line originally opened in 1839 by the Midland Counties Railway. This line is now part of the Midland Main Line between Loughborough and Long Eaton
The station opened on 17 February 1868 with a service of four trains in each direction each day[1]
It lay a mile and a half from the village, nearer to those of Sutton Bonington and Normanton-on-Soar in the neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire and closed in 1960.[3]
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cache is placed just on the track that leads to the farm crossing - access via the permissive path. there is barbed wire near GZ -please be careful