Grimston railway station
{{short description|Former railway station in Leicestershire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name = Grimston
| status = Disused
| image = File:Grimston railway station (site), Leicestershire, 1981 (geograph 6882476).jpg
| caption = The site of the station in 1981
| country = England
| coordinates = {{coord|52.782159|-0.965675|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| platforms = 2{{Cite book | last=Aldworth | first=Colin | title=The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012 | year=2012 }}
| original = Midland Railway
| pregroup = Midland Railway
| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
| years = 2 February 1880{{Butt-Stations}} p. 110.
| events = Station opens
| years1 = 4 February 1957Clinker, C.R., (1978) Clinker’s Register of Closed Station, Avon Anglia {{ISBN|0-905466-19-5}}
| events1 = Closes to passengers and goods
}}
Grimston was a railway station serving both the villages of Saxelbye and Grimston in Leicestershire, England. It was opened on the Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway between London and Nottingham via Corby.The station was formerly named Saxelbye, the name was changed after only 3 months to avoid confusion with Saxby, a few miles east of Melton Mowbray, on the Midland's other line between Leicester and Peterborough. The village of Grimston lies about one mile to the north west of the former Grimston station. The line still exists today as the Old Dalby Test Track.
History
The station was opened for goods (1 November 1879) {{Cite book | last=Aldworth | first=Colin | title=The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012 | year=2012 }} & passengers (2 February 1880) {{Cite book | last=Aldworth | first=Colin | title=The Nottingham and Melton Railway 1872 - 2012 | year=2012 }} by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.{{cite news |author= |title=Notes by the Way. |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000228/18841101/022/0005 |newspaper=Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald |location=British Newspaper Archive |date=1 November 1884 |access-date=12 July 2016 |via = British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
It was on its cut-off line from {{stnlnk|Melton Mowbray}} to {{stnlnk|Nottingham}}. The line was built to allow the railway company's expresses between London and the North to avoid reversal at Nottingham. It also improved access to and from the iron-ore fields in Leicestershire and Rutland. Local traffic was minimal and Grimston closed to passengers in 1957.{{Cite book | last=Shannon | first=Paul | title=Nottinghamshire (British Railways Past and Present) | year=2007 | publisher=Past & Present Publishing | location=Kettering, Northants | isbn=978-1-85895-253-6 | page=23}}
According to the Official Handbook of Stations the following classes of traffic were handled by this station in 1956: G, P, F, L, H, C and there was a 1-ton 10 cwt crane.Official Handbook of Stations,British Transport Commission, 1956.
=Stationmasters=
From 1930 the role of stationmaster was merged with that at Old Dalby.
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- George Hull 1879 - 1881
- Charles Radcliffe Cooper 1881 - 1888 (formerly station master at Croxall)
- Thomas England 1888 - 1899
- Alfred Ballard 1899{{cite news |author= |title=Midland Railway Stationmasters | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000327/18990311/008/0002 |newspaper=Derby Daily Telegraph |location=England |date=11 March 1899 |access-date=6 February 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} - 1906 (afterwards station master at Old Dalby)
- Herbert Henry Gilbert 1906 - 1922
- William Henry Lambert 1922 - 1924 (Died when hit by a train){{cite news |author= |title=Station-Master Killed Near Melton | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000400/19241213/275/0013 |newspaper=Grantham Journal |location=England |date=13 December 1924 |access-date=6 February 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }}
- Percy Harry Hyde 1925 - 1939{{cite news |author= |title=Tewkesbury’s New Stationmaster | url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002560/19390128/152/0005 |newspaper=Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer |location=England |date=28 January 1939 |access-date=6 February 2021 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription }} (also station master at Old Dalby from 1930, afterwards station master at Tewkesbury)
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{{Disused Rail Start}}
{{Rail line|next=Melton Mowbray|previous=Old Dalby|route=Midland Railway
Nottingham direct line of the Midland Railway|col=000000}}
{{end}}
Present day
Following the closure of the line as a through-route in 1968, the track between Melton Mowbray and {{stnlnk|Edwalton}} was converted for use as the Old Dalby Test Track, used initially for the Advanced Passenger Train project and, more recently, Class 390 Pendolino units.
The original station building was timber and did not survive, nor did the brick-built goods shed but the Up platform is still in existence and the former station master's house is now a private residence.
References
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External links
- [http://www.old-dalby.com/Grimston-1.htm A few photos of Grimston station over the years]
- [http://www.old-dalby.com/Grimston.htm A few photos of trains at Grimston station over the years]
- [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#469,320,1 Grimston station on navigable 1946 O.S. map]
{{Closed stations Leicestershire and Rutland}}
Category:Disused railway stations in Leicestershire
Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880
Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1957