Tilton railway station was a railway station serving the village of Tilton on the Hill

Tilton on the Hill

Tilton on the Hill is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire. It lies 2 miles north of the A47, on the B6047 to Melton Mowbray. Halstead civil parish was merged with Tilton in 1935, while the deserted medieval village of Whatborough was merged in 1994...

, Leicestershire

Leicestershire

Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...

. It was also the railhead for Skeffington

Skeffington

Skeffington is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. It is situated east of Leicester on the A47 Leicester to Uppingham road, between the parishes of Billesdon and Tugby and Keythorpe....

 and Owston. The station was 1.3 miles east of Tilton on the road to Oakham

Oakham

-Oakham's horseshoes:Traditionally, members of royalty and peers of the realm who visited or passed through the town had to pay a forfeit in the form of a horseshoe...

. It was 1.7 miles from Owston and 2.3 miles from Skeffington by public footpath, but longer by road. on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway

The Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway was a joint railway owned by the Great Northern Railway and the London and North Western Railway in east Leicestershire.-Location:...

. It opened in 1879 and closed in 1953. To the north of the station was Marefield Junction.

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