RAILSCOT | Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway)

Dates

01/01/1883	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Opened from Marefield Junctions (Marefield North Junction and Marefield South Junction on the Bottesford to Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough (Great Northern Railway and London and North Western Railway)) to Leicester Belgrave Road. East of the terminus was a rarely used curve to the Midland.
01/04/1916	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Marefield West Junction to Marefield South Junction closed to passengers with withdrawal of passenger trains due to the Great War.
/11/1929	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Marefield West Junction to Marefield South Junction out of use and points taken out at Marefield South Junction.
10/01/1930	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Marefield South Junction formally closed. Disused curve to Marefield West Junction taken out subsequently (1930?). Marefield North Junction renamed Marefield Junction around this time.
07/12/1953	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Closed to regular public passenger trains.
28/04/1957	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Closed to workmen's trains, replaced by a bus service.
10/09/1962	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Holiday passenger trains to Mablethorpe and Skegness withdrawn.
01/06/1964	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Spur reinstated from the Midland Railway allowing access to Leicester Belgrave Road in order to close the line to the east to goods.
01/05/1967	Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway) Complete closure.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Leicester Branch

I fear that East West Rail has lost its bearings. This chalked aide-memoire is near Lowesby in Leicestershire, East of Leicester. The other parapet ...
Ken Strachan 25/09/2021

A view towards Leicester (Belgrave Road) in March 2016 from the point where the B6047 crossed the GNR branch from Marefield at Lowesby station. ...
John McIntyre 01/03/2016

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Ingarsby

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Thurnby Tunnel

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Thurnby and Scraptoft

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Humberstone

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Poster advertising the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway in 1963. The 2ft narrow gauge railway had been constructed in 1958 using track and equipment ...
Ian Dinmore //1963

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Leicester East Junction

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Leicester Belgrave Road

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Marefield Curve

Marefield West Junction

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Marefield South Junction

Closure to regular passenger trains 1916. Worker's trains and excursions may have continued. Junction taken out 1929 and officially closed in 1930.
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See also
Bottesford to Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough (Great Northern Railway and London and North Western Railway)

I like walking around triangles. There is the tantalizing choice of which side to do first; especially if, like me, you are on a Railway Ramblers ...
Ken Strachan 24/10/2021

The South curve at Marefield Junction is in astonishingly good condition for a railway closed to passengers 105 years ago (the south junction was ...
Ken Strachan 25/09/2021

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Leicester Belgrave Road Branch (Great Northern Railway)

Dates

Portions of line and locations

Leicester Branch

Marefield Junction

Marefield West Junction

Lowesby

Ingarsby

Thurnby Tunnel

Thurnby and Scraptoft

Humberstone

Leicester East Junction

Leicester Belgrave Road

Marefield Curve

Marefield West Junction

Marefield South Junction

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