Melton Mowbray North railway station

Melton Mowbray North
Location
Place	Melton Mowbray
Area	Leicestershire
Grid reference	SK753196
Operations
Pre-grouping	Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway
Post-grouping	LNER and LMS Joint
Platforms	2
History
1 September 1879	Opened
7 December 1953	Closed to regular services
9 September 1962	Closed to summer specials
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Melton Mowbray North railway station was a railway station in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, United Kingdom on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway.

The station was built of red brick but with lavish ornamentation in the classical style. There were two platforms connected by a subway.

The station opened on 1 September 1879 with services to Nottingham (London Road). The routes to Grantham and Newark and south to Market Harborough opened on 15 December.

Initially the main services were Northampton to Nottingham and Northampton to Newark, both via Melton, provided by the London and North Western Railway, and Melton to Grantham, provided by the Great Northern Railway. Other services were attempted but were short lived.

The through Newark services were not a success, so to cut costs, these were withdrawn on 1 May 1882 and replaced by connecting trains from Harby & Stathern.

On 1 January 1883, the GNR opened their line from Marefield Junction, on the joint line to the south, to their new station at Leicester (Belgrave Road). The GNR then replaced their Melton to Grantham service with a through Leicester to Grantham service.

The Newark connections from Harby were gradually withdrawn. In 1910 the service comprised one train each way between Leicester and Newark which interconnected with a Northampton to Nottingham train at Harby. This service was withdrawn by 1922. Passengers to Newark then had to change at either Radcliffe-on-Trent or Grantham.

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