By David W. Webb
Domestic to at least one of the earliest railways within the state, the Leicester & Swannington, Leicestershire was once for a few years nearly a personal fiefdom of the Midland Railway, even though later different businesses made inroads. This used to be a space wealthy in mineral wealth with either coal and iron ore deposits offering a lot freight site visitors. at the present time, the railways of those counties are a light shadow of what they as soon as have been. when a few stone site visitors is still, the passenger community has successfully reduced in size to the ex-MR major line via Leicester and the cross-country direction from Nuneaton via Melton Mowbray to Peterborough. The GC and the GN and LNWR joint strains were thoroughly closed, even supposing a piece of the previous survives because the preserved nice vital, dependent at Loughborough.
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