Kirby Muxloe railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Kirby Muxloe railway station was a station on the Midland Railway line between Template:Rws and Template:Rws that bypassed part of the Leicester and Swannington Railway in Leicestershire, England.

The Midland opened line through Kirby Muxloe in 1849, though Kirby Muxloe station did not open until 1859. The following year the Midland opened its line from Template:Rws to Template:Rws, making the line through Kirby Muxloe part of its through route between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent.

British Railways closed Kirby Muxloe station in 1964. It was one of numerous railway stations closed at that time that Flanders and Swann included in their song Slow Train released that year.

In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services between Leicester and Burton as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project. However, after the privatisation of British Rail in 1995 this phase of the project was discontinued. In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £49 million proposal (Connecting Communities: Expanding Access to the Rail Network) to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Kirby Muxloe.Template:ATOCConnectingCommunitiesReportS10

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Template:Rws	style="background:#Template:MR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Midland Railway Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line	style="background:#Template:MR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Template:Rws Line open, station closed

External links

• http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/

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