Tonge and Breedon railway station

Tonge and Breedon
Location
Place	Tonge
Area	North West Leicestershire
Coordinates	52°48′41″N 1°22′58″W / 52.8114°N 1.3829°W / 52.8114; -1.3829Coordinates: 52°48′41″N 1°22′58″W / 52.8114°N 1.3829°W / 52.8114; -1.3829
Grid reference	SK416239
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
1874	Line opened
22nd Sept 1930	Passenger service withdrawn
1939	Line becomes Melbourne Military Railway
1945	Line returned to LMS
21 May 1980	Line closed to freight traffic
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Tonge and Breedon railway station was a station at Tonge that served the adjacent village of Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England. It was on a Midland Railway line built in 1874 from Melbourne to a junction on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line near Ashby de la Zouch.

In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, was using the line only for freight services. During the Second World War the line became the Melbourne Military Railway. In 1945 the War Department returned the line and station to the LMS.

In 1980 British Railways closed the line and by the 1990s the track had been dismantled. The trackbed through the former station is now part of National Cycle Route 6.

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