Frisby railway station

Former railway station in Leicestershire, England

LocationFrisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire
England

Grid referenceSK693178

Platforms2

StatusDisused

Frisby

Signal box at the former station in 1993

General information

Location

Frisby on the Wreake, Leicestershire
England

Grid reference

SK693178

Platforms

Other information

Status

Disused

History

Pre-grouping

Midland Railway

Post-grouping

London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways

Key dates

1 January 1847

Opened

3 July 1961

Closed

Location

Frisby railway station was a former station serving the village of Frisby on the Wreake in Leicestershire. The station was situated at a level crossing on the road to Hoby.

Stationmasters

The station opened in 1847 on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, but until 1849 it only had a service on Melton market days. It closed in 1961. There were no goods facilities at the station.^[1]

The station masters house was one of the smallest and cheapest on the line between Syston and Melton Mowbray. It was little more than a gatehouse^[2] and this may have contributed to the relatively fast turn-over of station masters.

John Thomson ca. 1851 - 1874^[3]
J. Lambert 1874 - 1875 (afterwards station master at Wigston South)
G.W. Fenton 1875 - 1876^[4]
W. Greenfield 1876 - 1887^[4]
S. North 1877 - 1879^[4]
F. Gilley 1879^[4]
J. Wyldes 1879^[4]
Edward Richardson 1880 - 1881^[5] (afterwards station master at Great Glen)
R. Shipway 1881 - 1888^[5]
Charles Taylor 1888 - 1892^[5]
J.J. Cook 1892 - 1893^[5]
R. Higgins 1893 - 1898^[5]
Harry Scott 1898 – ca. 1911
H.J. Roberts ca. 1914^[6]
A. Alexander^[7] (afterwards station master at Manton)

Former Services

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Brooksby		Midland Railway Leicester to Peterborough		Asfordby

References

↑ British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer.
↑ "The Railway Stations of Leicestershire" (PDF). Leicestershire Historian. 1–2 (8): 2. 1967. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
↑ "Operating, Traffic, Coaching Depts". Midland Railway: 499. 1871–1879. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
1 2 3 4 5 "Operating, Traffic, Coaching Depts". Midland Railway: 887. 1871–1879. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
1 2 3 4 5 "Operating, Traffic, Coaching Depts". Midland Railway: 648. 1881–1898. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
↑ "1914 Salaried Staff". Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts: 121. 1914. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
↑ "Stationmaster's Retiring". Leicester Evening Mail. England. 30 May 1946. Retrieved 23 December 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.

v t e Closed railway stations in Leicestershire and Rutland
Leicester and Swannington Railway	Coalville Town Bardon Hill Bagworth and Ellistown Incline House Thornton Lane Merry Lees Desford Ratby Glenfield (Leicestershire) Leicester West Bridge
Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway	Overseal Donisthorpe Measham Snarestone Hugglescote Heather and Ibstock Stoke Golding Higham on the Hill
Charnwood Forest Railway	Loughborough Derby Road Snells Nook Halt Shepshed Grace Dieu Halt Thringstone Halt Whitwick Coalville East
Melbourne line	Wilson Tonge and Breedon Worthington
Leicester–Burton upon Trent line	Moira Ashby de la Zouch Swannington Kirby Muxloe Braunstone (Leicester)
GNR & LNWR Joint Railway	Harby and Stathern Long Clawson and Hose Scalford Melton Mowbray North Great Dalby John O'Gaunt Leicester Belgrave Road Humberstone Thurnby and Scraptoft Ingarsby Lowesby Tilton East Norton Hallaton Medbourne
Midland Counties Railway	Cossington Gate Wigston South Countesthorpe Broughton Astley Leire Halt Ullesthorpe
Nottingham and Melton Railway	Edwalton Plumtree Widmerpool Upper Broughton Old Dalby Grimston
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway	Saxby Edmondthorpe and Wymondham
Syston and Peterborough Railway	ROF Queniborough Rearsby Brooksby Frisby Asfordby Whissendine Ashwell Manton Luffenham Ketton and Collyweston
Rugby and Stamford Railway	Lilbourne Welford and Kilworth Theddingworth Lubenham Rockingham Seaton Morcott Wakerley and Barrowden
Midland Main Line	Hathern Humberstone Road Leicester Campbell Street Welford Road Wigston Magna Great Glen Kibworth East Langton
South Leicestershire Railway	Elmesthorpe Croft railway station, Leicester Blaby Wigston Glen Parva
Great Central Main Line	Loughborough Central Quorn and Woodhouse Rothley Belgrave and Birstall Leicester Central Whetstone Ashby Magna Lutterworth
Stamford and Essendine Railway	Essendine Ryhall
Other	Uppingham Waltham-on-the-Wolds Castle Donington and Shardlow Weston on Trent

52°45′15″N 0°58′27″W / 52.7541°N 0.9742°W / 52.7541; -0.9742

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