former Place of Whetstone railway station

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Date opened: 15.3.1899
Company on opening: Great Central Railway
Date closed to passengers: 4.3.1963
Date closed completely: 14.6.1965
Company on closing: British Rail (London Midland Region)
Present state: The station has been demolished and the embankment removed. A new housing estate (Spinney Halt) now stands on the site. The embankment to the north of the station is still extant. The stationmaster's house is in private occupation.

Whetstone railway station was a former railway station in Southern Leicestershire, UK, on the Great Central Railway.

Whetstone station was built by the Great Central Railway as part of their London Extension, and opened to passengers on March 15th 1899. It served Whetstone, and the surrounding villages, possibly Blaby and Littlethorpe. It was a conventional London extension station, which was common in towns on villages on the GCR. Access was from beneath the rail bridge, which once spanned Station Street near the centre of the village. The platform was on the south side of the bridge on an embankment that was particularly wide, to accommodate the goods yard. The station was one of the earlier closures on the line, after the Beeching report, and closed to passengers in 1963. Since then, the embankment has been removed, along with all station buildings and platforms; only the station masters house remains today.