Hinckley railway station

Hinckley
Hinckley railway station showing the newly installed canopy on Platform 1.
Location	Hinckley, Hinckley and Bosworth England
Coordinates	52°32′06″N 1°22′19″W / 52.5350°N 1.3719°W / 52.5350; -1.3719Coordinates: 52°32′06″N 1°22′19″W / 52.5350°N 1.3719°W / 52.5350; -1.3719
Grid reference	SP427932
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HNK
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	South Leicestershire Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1861	Opened
Passengers
2016/17	0.329 million
2017/18	0.337 million
2018/19	0.349 million
2019/20	0.350 million
2020/21	54,204
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Hinckley railway station serves the town of Hinckley and village of Burbage in Leicestershire, England.

The station is on the CrossCountry Birmingham to Peterborough Line between Leicester and Birmingham New Street and is about 4 miles (6 km) east of Nuneaton.

The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, who do not operate services from this station. Only CrossCountry operate trains from here.

A full range of tickets for travel is available from the station ticket office when it is open (0640—1300 hrs), or at other times from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

History[]

The station was opened in 1861 as part of the South Leicestershire Railway,^[1] which was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in 1867.^[2]

Services[]

There are services to Leicester and Birmingham New Street: usually one train in each direction every hour (including Sundays).^[3] There are three trains per day to Stansted Airport on weekdays only, plus a fourth as far as Cambridge.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Nuneaton		CrossCountry Birmingham-Leicester		Narborough
	Historical railways
Stoke Golding Line and station closed		Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway		Elmesthorpe Line open, station closed
Nuneaton Abbey Street Line open, station closed		Midland Railway

Buses operate from outside the station around the town and also to Magna Park and Lutterworth. The station is also just a short walk from The Crescent bus station where a large number of services can be caught to farther destinations and also smaller nearby villages.

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