Construction of the Ashby & Nuneaton joint railway near Dadlington using a Manning Wardle tank engine
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Leicester–
Burton upon Trent line
Overseal and Moira
Moira
Donisthorpe
Coalville Town
Measham
Charnwood Forest Rly
Leicester–
Burton upon Trent line
Snarestone
Hugglescote
Heather and Ibstock
Shackerstone Junction
Shackerstone
Battlefield Line Railway
Market Bosworth
Shenton
Stoke Golding
Higham on the Hill
Trent Valley line
(West Coast Main Line)
Birmingham–
Peterborough line
Nuneaton
Abbey Street
Nuneaton
Coventry–
Nuneaton line
Hinckley
Trent Valley line
(West Coast Main Line)
Birmingham–
Peterborough line
The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway was a pre-grouping railway company in the English Midlands, built to serve the Leicestershire coalfield. Both the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) wished to build a line on similar alignments, and they agreed to build jointly. Construction began in 1869 and the railway was opened in 1873. It linked Moira (near Ashby-de-la-Zouch) and Coalville with Nuneaton.
Mineral traffic was busy, and the line formed a useful link for through goods trains. Some long distance passenger operation took place over the line, but it was never successful in carrying passengers.
The LNWR sponsored the Charnwood Forest Railway which branched off the Joint Railway near Coalville and ran to a terminus at Loughborough. The intention had been to connect to the Midland Railway main line there, but that attempt was refused. The passenger traffic on the Joint Railway and the CFR ceased in 1931, and the goods activity progressively ran down from 1964 onwards. The entire network is now closed to ordinary commercial railway operation, but a heritage railway operates near Market Bosworth.
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closed AshbyandNuneatonJointRailway. It was originally opened on 1 December 1864 by the Midland Railway on their line from Birmingham to Nuneaton. The...
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