Quorn and Woodhouse is a stop on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire between Loughborough Central and Rothley.
Repton arrives with a North bound service
Information
Type:
Preserved Railway (Great Central Railway)
Opened:
1899 (Closed 1963)
Re-Opened:
1974
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1899 on it's extension down to London and it's new terminus London Marylebone, the last new mainline built in Britain until HS1 in 2003. The Great Central Railway later became part of the LNER but post the Second World War the line began to decay and was gradually closed down North of Aylesbury in the 1960s. Quorn and Woodhouse was closed in 1963.
The station was re-opened as part of the preserved Great Central Railway in 1974 and is one of two intermediate stations on the line. The station has an island platform with an entrance on a bridge that crosses the lines and steps down the platform, there is also a foot crossing at the end of the platform. The platform contained a couple of well preserved station buildings.
There is a goods yard next to the station complete with goods shed and turntable, the latter however is not an original part of the station being originally at Preston Docks and installed at Quorn and Woodhouse in 2011. The station has been preserved as a typical rural LNER station in the 1940s.
