Grace Dieu Halt railway station

Grace Dieu Halt railway station was a station on the Charnwood Forest Railway. At 52.761485°N 1.354311°E near the hamlet of Grace-Dieu, Leicestershire. On the outskirts of Whitwick. Opened in 1907 as a stop on the line between Loughborough Derby Road and Coalville East.

The station closed in 1931 when passenger services on the line with withdrawn.[1] Today, nothing remains of the halt and the trackbed is now a footpath. Nearby is also Grace Dieu Priory and Grace Dieu Manor (and Grace Dieu Manor School), which were served by the halt.[2][3]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Thringstone Halt
Line and station closed
  London and North Western Railway
Charnwood Forest Railway
  Shepshed
Line and station closed
  1. ^ "Stations closing to passengers". Leicester Evening Mail. England. 8 April 1931. Retrieved 1 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ "Charnwood Forest Railway". spellerweb.net. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Grace Dieu Halt Railway Station". www.shackerstonefestival.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2020.