Gresley railway station
# Gresley railway station

Gresley railway station was a railway station at Castle Gresley, Derbyshire on the Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line.

## History

The line was built for the Midland Railway and the station opened on 2 October 1848. Originally sited to the west of the road bridge, the station was resited to the east of the bridge c. 1869. Gresley station was closed on 7 September 1964 but the line remains open for freight traffic.

From 1906 to 1927, a branch of the Burton and Ashby Light Railway terminated at the station.

In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services between Leicester and Burton as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project. However, after the privatisation of British Rail in 1995 this phase of the project was discontinued. In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £49 million proposal to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Gresley to serve the town of Swadlincote.

## Stationmasters

* John Burn until 1862
* W. Renals from 1862 - ca. 1868 (afterwards station master at Leagrave)
* H. Learoyd until 1871
* Albert C. Bickham 1871
* S.N. Rose 1871 - 1873
* W. Cook 1873 - 1875
* T. Perkins 1875 - 1880
* J. Sandford 1880 - 1881 (formerly station master at Moira)
* H. Wright 1881 - 1885
* T. Washbourne 1885 - 1903
* William Marston 1903 - 1915
* Percy Jackson 1927 - 1931 (afterwards station master at Wilnecote)
* E.B. Bridge 1931 - 1937 (afterwards station master at Bagworth)
* A.H. Malbon 1937 - 1938 (formerly station master at Chellaston)
* F.N. Crook 1938 - 1939
* R.C. White from 1939 (formerly station master at Chellaston)
* R. Marsden ca. 1949 ca. 1953
* C.D. Pheasant ca. 1958

| Preceding station | Historical railways | Historical railways | Historical railways | Following station |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Moira Line open, station closed | | Midland Railway Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line | | Burton-on-Trent Line and station open |
| Donisthorpe Line and station closed | | Midland Railway Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line | | Burton-on-Trent Line and station open |
