Lilbourne railway station


Lilbourne railway station was a railway station serving Lilbourne and nearby Catthorpe in Leicestershire, England. It was on the Rugby and Stamford Railway between and.
in 1846 the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway gained Parliamentary powers for a branch from to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near. In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby via Lilbourne to was opened in 1850. The line through Lilbourne was single track until it was doubled at the end of 1878.
The 1923 grouping made the LNWR part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.
British Railways closed the station in 1966. All that remains is the trackbed and a platform.