Kirby Muxloe railway station was a station on the Midland Railway line between and 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 to , making the line through Kirby Muxloe part of its through route between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent.

Kirby Muxloe railway station

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.

Kirby Muxloe railway station

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.

Kirby Muxloe railway station

References

External links

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/

Former Midland Railway stations

Disused railway stations in Leicestershire

Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1859

Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964

Beeching closures in England

Proposed railway stations in England