History
The station was opened by the Great Central Railway on 15 March 1899 and was closed on 5 May 1969. It was reopened by the Great Central Railway (preserved) in 1974. It is Grade II listed.
Read more about this topic: Loughborough Central Railway Station
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“These anyway might think it was important
That human history should not be shortened.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.”
—Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)
“We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)