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DerekC said:
For interest (not affecting postings) - I think Fletton Junction was a goods station in GNR/LNWR days. I can see that the NVR owns the Fletton Branch as far as the gate at 0m 6ch from the junction with the ECML and runs occasional brake van rides along the branch, but I don't see any trace of a station there now.
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Dewick doesn't -- as standard practise of his -- show stations which were always, in commercial-rail days, goods and goods only -- or does he? Since @Xenophon PCDGS's note, I'd been envisaging Dewick's showing of a Fletton Junction station, as just a plain error on his part.

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Remember what the journey preamble said about there being sets in number of both closed 1st and 2nd stations on this leg we have just accessed. The station you state above was a 1st station, so....Kirby Muxloe (2nd station)

 
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Merry Lees (1st station - 1832 to 1848)

Note - with reference to Kirby Muxloe. I did do the usual checks but only the one station came up on all my sources. All the original Leicester & Swannington stations from Glenfield to Merry Lees seem to have been rebuilt a short distance along the line by the Midland after its takeover, but of course Kirby Muxloe was on the new line linking the L&S to the Midland Main Line, built after the takeover.
 
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DerekC said:
Note - with reference to Kirby Muxloe. I did do the usual checks but only the one station came up on all my sources. All the original Leicester & Swannington stations from Glenfield to Merry Lees seem to have been rebuilt a short distance along the line by the Midland after its takeover, but of course Kirby Muxloe was on the new line linking the L&S to the Midland Main Line, built after the takeover.
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Many thanks for this. The motto being that I should never believe everything that very old railwaymen tell me...:oops::rolleyes:

The incorrect posting that I made in response to your posting earlier of Kirby Muxloe has now been struck-through.
 
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