Hinckley railway station

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

Hinckley
National Rail
Hinckley railway station showing the newly installed canopy on Platform 1.
General information
LocationHinckley, Hinckley and Bosworth
England
Coordinates52.5350°N 1.3719°W / 52.5350; -1.3719
Grid referenceSP427932
Managed byEast Midlands Railway[1]
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeHNK[2]
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Original companySouth Leicestershire Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1861Opened
Passengers
2017/18Increase 0.337 million
2018/19Increase 0.349 million
2019/20Increase 0.350 million
2020/21Decrease 54,204
2021/22Increase 0.198 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.[3]

A full range of tickets for travel is available from the station ticket office when it is open (06:40—13:00 Monday to Saturday, closed on Sundays), or at other times from either the ticket machines or the guard on the train at no extra cost.[4]

History

The station was opened in 1861 as part of the South Leicestershire Railway,[5] which was taken over by the London and North Western Railway in 1867.[6]

Services

There are services to Leicester and Birmingham New Street: usually one train in each direction every hour (including Sundays).[7][8] There is one early morning train per day to Stansted Airport on weekdays only, plus three additional peak services as far as Cambridge. There is also one late evening train a day to Gloucester.

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
CrossCountry
  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.

References
  1. "Hinckley (Leics) (HNK)". National Rail.
  2. Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". CRS, NLC, TIPLOC and STANOX Codes | Railway Codes.
  3. "Hinckley (Leics) Train Station". Cross Country Trains.
  4. "Hinckley (Leics)". East Midlands Railway.
  5. "Railway". Hinckley. Archived from the original on 31 December 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
  6. "Series reference RAIL 636". The Catalogue. The National Archives. 5 October 2011.
  7. "Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff - Sunday 11 December 2022 – Saturday 20 May 2023" (PDF). Cross Country Trains.
  8. "Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff - Sunday 21 May 2023 – Saturday 09 December 2023" (PDF). Cross Country Trains. 21 May 2023.
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