Quorn And Woodhouse Station

Quorn and Woodhouse Station is a railway station built in 1898 for the Great Central Railway, designed by resident engineer Edward Parry. The station features red brick construction with a Welsh slate roof and includes an island platform building with a staircase leading to an overbridge. This bridge serves only as an entrance gate, while the offices are located on the platform itself.

The entrance is marked by double wooden gates in an arched doorway that leads to a covered staircase with side glazing, supported by red brick walls that have storage areas beneath. The platform buildings are single storey, with the first serving as the booking and station-master's office, featuring fretted canopies on either side. The walls are divided into sections, with four windows and a door, a gable end that includes a booking-office window framed in brown tile at the north end, and a window at the south end, which also has a chimney stack.

The second building mirrors the first but lacks canopies and has a door with six over two panels and a six-pane overlight at the south end.

Historically, this station opened on March 15, 1899, as part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway's London Extension, which was promoted in 1893 and became the Great Central Railway in 1897. Quorn and Woodhouse Station closed on March 4, 1963, but was reopened on March 23, 1974, as part of the Great Central Railway (private). It remains largely unaltered from its original 1898 design, with its interior fittings intact, and continues to serve as a traditional steam railway station.