Sileby is a stop on the Midland Main Line in Leicestershire between Syston and Barrow-upon-Soar.
EMR 156 413 arrives with a Nottingham bound service
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Midland Main Line / Ivanhoe Line)
Station code:
SIL
Opened:
1840 (Closed 1968)
Re-Opened:
1994
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Midland Counties Railway in 1840 on an embankment which cut through the village. The line was quadrupled in 1906 [1] with an island platform between the two inner tracks. There was a goods yard just North of the station. The station buildings were of wooden construction.
The station was closed to passenger traffic in 1968 but was re-opened in 1994 [2] as part of what is known as the Ivanhoe Line. The station has two new short platforms on the two slow lines. Little from the old station has survived, the new station has the usual bus shelters for passengers, there are ramps and steps down to street level. The station is managed by East Midlands Railway who run an hourly service most days between Nottingham and Lincoln Central via Leicester.
Station entrance under the bridge
EMT 156 413 arrives at the station
View down the platform
Station shelter
EMR 156 406 departs while a passenger heads down the ramp
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Leicester to Nottingham (Middleton Press, 2018) Fig. 26 [2] Ibid. Fig. 30
