Lost Railways of Leicestershire and Rutland

 

The cover of Lost Railways of Leicestershire and Rutland

 

This book, published in 2006, has chapters on the Leicester & Swannington Railway ('First in the Midlands'), on the Ashby-Derby line, the Burton & Ashby Light Railway and the Leicester-Burton line ("Lines round Ashby-de-la-Zouch"), on the Nuneaton to Ashby line and the Battlefield line heritage railway, on the Charnwood Forest Railway ('The Bluebell Line'), on major route from Bottesford to Hallaton through Melton Mowbray with a branch to Leicester ('The Joint Line'), on lines into and out of Rutland, on lines out of Market Harborough ('Lost Lines to Rugby and Northampton'), and on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire and on the heritage line between Loughborough and Leicester North.

 

Shackerstone station today

 

Shackerstone Station today, headquarters of the Battlefield Line, the heritage railway which today runs trains on a section of the old Nuneaton to Ashby line.

 

Rothley Station

Passenger train on the restored section of the Great Central Railway pulling into Rothley Station.