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Shenton railway station is located about 0.5 miles from the village of Shenton, Leicestershire, England.

Shenton
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	Shenton, Hinckley and Bosworth England
Coordinates	52°35′59.00″N 1°24′55.00″W
Grid reference	SK396004
Managed by	Battlefield Line Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
1873	opened
1931	closed for passengers
1965	closed entirely

It is the current southern terminus of the Battlefield Line Railway, which runs to here from Shackerstone. The station is located at the foot of Ambion Hill and is actually the reconstructed Humberstone Road Station from Leicester. The original station closed in 1965 and was dismantled and relocated (except for a small lamp room that now serves as the Station Pottery).

The station is a former stop on the London and North Western Railway and the Midland Railway, who jointly operated the line between Moira West Junction and Nuneaton. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Market Bosworth		Battlefield Line Railway		Terminus
	Disused railways
Market Bosworth Line and station open		Midland Railway, London and North Western Railway Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway		Stoke Golding Line and station closed

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