Wigston had three railway stations but the last was closed in the late 1960s. British Rail opened the new station of South Wigston in 1986, about 300m away from the site of the former station Glen Parva. The station has two platforms which are staggered either side of the station's footbridge [1].
The station is nowadays managed by East Midlands Railway though all services are operated by Cross Country on their Birmingham New Street to Leicester service with a train per hour in each direction. One train per day goes as far as Cambridge, and another to Gloucester.
Bus shelter on platform 1
Preparing to depart
Footbridge, the other platform is beyond
Freshly painted footbridge
View from the footbridge
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Coventry to Leicester (Middleton Press, 2017) Fig. 73
