Transport
There are a number of bus services that run through Coalville with the majority run by Arriva Midlands, who had a depot in the town on Ashby Road closed in March 2011 is derelict and may be demolished shortly. From Coalville, buses run to Leicester, Loughborough, Burton-on-Trent, Hinckley and East Midlands Airport.
There is now no railway station in Coalville. The nearest passenger railway station is Loughborough, about eight miles north east of Coalville. There have been calls to open the between Burton - Leicester Line for passenger trains (the line is currently closed at the Leicester end—the only traffic is the occasional Bardon Quarry stone) as part of the Ivanhoe Line but so far there are no plans for this to happen.
A section of the Nuneaton – Coalville railway at nearby Shackerstone, seven miles south of Coalville, has been restored and reopened as a heritage railway called the Battlefield Line.
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