Trains to Barrow Upon Soar - Station Details and further Information on Barrow Upon Soar Train Services
Barrow-upon-Soar train station serves the large village of Barrow-upon-Soar in Leicestershire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line between Leicester and Loughborough. The first station at Barrow was opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway, which shortly joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway.
A new station was opened a little to the southeast of the original site on 27 May 1994 as part of phase one of the Ivanhoe Line. The station is served by East Midlands Trains, who operate local services from Leicester to Nottingham and Lincoln via Newark. The 15:51 northbound service continues from Lincoln to Sleaford. East Midlands Trains London services from Leeds, Sheffield and London run through at high speed, but do not stop. Interchange with Mainline services can be made at Leicester and Loughborough.
It was originally known simply as Barrow, but became Barrow-upon-Soar in 1871. When Quorn and Woodhouse was opened by the rival Great Central Railway on the opposite (western) side of Quorn, it became Barrow-upon-Soar and Quorn in 1899. Neither station, in fact, was ideally located for Quorn being about equidistant from its centre.
Barrow was the only station on the line to retain much of its original MCR architecture. However it was completely demolished following its closure in 1968. |
