Sileby railway station

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Coordinates: 52°43′52.42″N, 1°6′34.42″W

Sileby
Location
Place	Sileby
Local authority	Charnwood
Operations
Station code	SIL
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Platforms in use
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2005/06 *	74,769
History
Key dates	Opened May 1994
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sileby from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Sileby railway station is a railway station serving the village of Sileby in Leicestershire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line 10 km (6½ miles) north of Leicester towards Loughborough.

The original station was built in 1840 for the Midland Counties Railway, which shortly joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway, but closed in 1968.

It reopened on 27th May 1994 as part of phase one of the Ivanhoe Line.

Services are formed using diesel multiple units of Classes 153, 156 or 158 and are operated exclusively by East Midlands Trains.

[edit] Services

Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service southbound to Leicester and northbound to Nottingham continuing onwards to Lincoln Central. There is no Sunday service.

East Midlands Trains Mainline services from Leeds, Sheffield and London run through at high speed, but do not stop. Interchange with Mainline services can be made at Leicester and Loughborough.

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Sileby railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Syston		East Midlands Trains Ivanhoe Line		Barrow-upon-Soar

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