Scraptoft

Scraptoft is a village in Leicestershire, England, which is effectively a suburb of Leicester. It has a population of about 1,500, measured at the 2011 census as 1,804. It lies north of the A47 road east of Leicester, and runs directly into the built up area of Thurnby and Bushby to the south. For local government the village forms part of the district of Harborough, and constitutes a civil parish.

The Thurnby and Scraptoft railway station (which connected to the Great Northern Railway) closed to passenger traffic in the mid-1950s. Seaside excursions and freight continued to use the line until around 1964, and in the early part of 1965 the track was lifted and the bridge across the road on Station Road was demolished.

Services through, to or from Scraptoft were run by Ernest Jordan of Halstead near Tilton-on-the-Hill in the early years of the 20th century. Hincks of Hungarton also ran services until c1930 when the company was taken over by the "Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd." (B.M.M.O.), known as Midland Red. The 'BMMO' ran a service for many years through to Hungarton numbered originally 599, later renumbered to 598 (1968), 649 (1978) and finally 149 (1980) and for a period (1957-1964) was extended on to Twyford and John 'O Gaunt Station as an X64. This replaced the discontinued train service which had run previously, known as the workers' service. The Hungarton service was maintained until around 1981. A school service numbered S21 was operated for a few years in the later 1960s / early 1970s as a mornings only Scraptoft Green - Somerby Road School run. Oddly, no return afternoon facility ever existed. BMMO also ran its more regular services into Leicester originally numbered L29 from around 1930 - renumbered 93 (1972) and 79 / 89 (1980) also until 1972 a Service L15 to Oadby, Wigston and Enderby. Into the mid 1980s and 1990s a more frequent mini-bus service was established by the successor of BMMO, renamed Midland Fox in the de-regulation era, numbered M2, later 52, the high frequency being attributed to the Leicester Polytechnic / De Montford University Scraptoft Campus site, however the campus has since closed and been replaced with a housing development and the current service is being operated by Arriva Midlands as a Service 56 on a much reduced frequency, with no services in the evenings or on Sundays.

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