Edwalton railway station

Edwalton railway station served the village of Edwalton and the nearby town of West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire, England. It was opened on the Midland Railway Melton direct route between London and Nottingham, avoiding Leicester.

The station was opened for goods on 1 November 1879,^[1] and to passengers on 2 February 1880^[1] by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.^[2]

It was on the Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway from Melton Mowbray to Nottingham, which had opened the previous year to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham. It also improved access to and from the iron-ore fields in Leicestershire and Rutland.

The list of station masters included:^[3]

The station closed on 28 July 1941.^[9]

Following the closure of the line as a through-route in 1968, the line between Melton Mowbray and Edwalton was converted for use as the Old Dalby Test Track. This was used initially for the Advanced Passenger Train project and, more recently, Class 390 Pendolino units. It was also used for testing London Underground 'S Stock' trains.

Edwalton itself was never part of the test track, the line stopping short at the A606 road bridge.

The site today has an up market housing development built upon it.

• Edwalton station scenes down the years

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