Melton Mowbray railway station
Melton Mowbray 
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Central Trains 170511 at Melton Mowbray with a Stansted Airport service.
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| Location | |
| Place | Melton Mowbray |
| Local authority | Borough of Melton |
| Grid reference | SK752187 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MMO |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.234 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.233 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.241 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.253 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.266 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Midland Counties Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 September 1846 | First station opened as Melton |
| 1 May 1848 | Station resited |
| 1 November 1876 | Renamed Melton Mowbray |
| 1923 | Renamed Melton Mowbray South |
| 25 September 1950 | Renamed Melton Mowbray Midland |
| by 13 September 1957 | Renamed Melton Mowbray Town |
| 14 June 1965 | Renamed Melton Mowbray |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Melton Mowbray from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Melton Mowbray railway station serves the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and operated by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company (TOC).
The station is on the (as built) Syston and Peterborough Railway, the line is now part of the much bigger Birmingham to Peterborough Line. CrossCountry operate the majority of services as part of their Birmingham to Stansted Airport route. The station lies between Leicester and Peterborough stations.
The station was formerly known as Melton Mowbray Town to distinguish it from the now closed Melton Mowbray North on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway, which closed to regular traffic in 1953.
The station has a ticket office which is staffed part-time, a car park and help points for times where there are no staff present. It was refurbished in 2011 with new glass in the platform canopies, resurfaced platforms, passenger information screens, improved disabled access to the 'barrow crossing', a full repaint and a new footbridge to replace the original which was life-expired. The refurbishment of the platforms retained their original size and means that previous plans to extend these by up to 14 yards (13 m) by no later than 2012 will not go ahead in the original timescale.
From Melton Mowbray there is an hourly service off-peak in both directions operated by CrossCountry. Westbound, trains run to Birmingham via Leicester, Nuneaton and Coleshill. Eastbound, trains run to Stansted Airport via Peterborough, Ely and Cambridge. Additional trains run at peak times, with some terminating at Cambridge.
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