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MEASHAM STATION

Measham 1965

Measham to Moria West Junction singled 6.8.1972.

Current State of Site

The station building is currently being restored (Winter 2007/08) to house the village museum and possibley used as a cafe. The Victorian building is owned by the County Council, which has raised £500,000 for the six-month restoration. Original features such as doors, windows and chimney pots will be reinstated and the building repainted in Midland Railway colours. The building will be re-roofed, but original materials such as tiles and bricks were reused where possible.

Measham Station 31st March 2008

Funding for the restoration has been provided by the Single Regeneration Budget (£190,500), the East Midlands Development Agency (£132,000), Waste Recycling Environmental (WREN) Ltd (£40,000), Measham Development Trust (£15,000), the National Forest Company (£4,000), Measham Parish Council (£500) and Leicestershire County Council (£157,000). Clay materials have been donated by Hanson/Red Bank Manufacturing Co Ltd.

Prior to this it was a motor repairs garage. Unfortunately the original cast iron verandah arches were cut away and stolen in about 1999.

The terrace of railway workers houses are now private residences.

At Measham Station, the old goods shed has been restored as a boat builders unit, however it did loose its loading canopy in the process, and a medical history garden and sundial, to commemorate local entrepreneur Joseph Wilkes, has been developed.

Much of the trackbed was acquired by Leicestershire County Council and the section between Moira and Measham has been restored as the Ashby Woulds Heritage Trail.

The bridge crossing Measham high street was removed around the time of the construction of the A42/M42 motorway.

Ashby & Nuneaton Joint Railway History