Quorn & Woodhouse Station

Quorn & Woodhouse Station Quorn & Woodhouse is station on the preserved Great Central Railway and one of the 100 treasures of the Charnwood Forest.

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On this day in 1959, the late Horace Gamble captured ex-GCR 'Director' Class No. 62661 'Gerard Powys Dewhurst' at Quorn ...
16/06/2026

On this day in 1959, the late Horace Gamble captured ex-GCR 'Director' Class No. 62661 'Gerard Powys Dewhurst' at Quorn and Woodhouse on the 7.30pm Nottingham Victoria to Leicester Central local.

On this day in 1965, Quorn and Woodhouse Signal Box closed. The original Quorn signal box (pictured), was a handsome str...
13/06/2026

On this day in 1965, Quorn and Woodhouse Signal Box closed. The original Quorn signal box (pictured), was a handsome structure with a brick base of typical London Extension style. It was demolished not long after closure.

The box would have seen many interesting ocurrences in its short life, from the arrival of horseboxes for gentry to join local hunting arrangements, troop trains for the military in the 1940s and 50s for troops bound to Camp Quorn, to the Beaumanor estate clogging up the yard in the 1920s when it decided to sell much of its timber, to a train of petrol tankers catching fire and having to be put out by the fire brigage in 1949.

The biggest upgrade for the box came during the Second World War when the station underwent a major redesign to cater for additional sidings in the yard for ammunitions traffic and the installation of a passing loop, seen in the picture snaking round the back of the box.

The signal box that currently resides at Quorn and Woodhouse was originally from Market Rasen and is of 1886 MS&LR vintage making it the oldest structure on the preserved railway. It sits just north of the original site of Quorn box.

Standard 5 73156 sits in the down platform today at the head of a minerals train for persons taking part in the GCR's Go...
13/06/2026

Standard 5 73156 sits in the down platform today at the head of a minerals train for persons taking part in the GCR's Goods Experience.

Starting at Quorn, participants get a video introduction to the role of a goods guard in our Goods Shed before taking a full length of the line in a brakevan on a goods train.

You can book your goods experience via this link: https://tickets.gcrailway.co.uk/events/146025

Some visitors to the station recently may have noticed a relatively recent new addition in the form of our new Donations...
12/06/2026

Some visitors to the station recently may have noticed a relatively recent new addition in the form of our new Donations station.

The GCR have introduced new card donations machines across the railway, aimed at increasing revenue in an age when more and more people are carrying less cash.

21st century needs do not necessarily sit naturally against our 1940s backdrop, so we have created a casing to house ours in the style of a period cigarette machine (which includes a cash donations box) in the position that a similar machine was originally stationed.

Although we now welcome card, we do still encourage cash! Cash donations go towards our own station funds, whilst card donations go toward the David Clarke Railway Trust which supports projects across the railway.

We have had a great time at the GCR's 1940s weekend this weekend. Quorn and Woodhouse has a deep connection to the Secon...
31/05/2026

We have had a great time at the GCR's 1940s weekend this weekend. Quorn and Woodhouse has a deep connection to the Second World War having welcomed evacuees from Sheffield and the south of Endland, to having the local Home Guard based in our porter's room, and our Goods Yard being taken over by the Royal Engineers who turned the hard into a railhead for Ordnance ahead of D-Day in 1943. Whilst just down the road from Quorn & Woodhouse, Beaumanor Hall acted as a secret listening station, intercepting enemy messages and sending them to Bletchley Park for code breaking.

Quorn and Woodhouse was provided a large goods yard when built, and only realised its full potential during the Second W...
17/05/2026

Quorn and Woodhouse was provided a large goods yard when built, and only realised its full potential during the Second World War.

In 1943, the Royal Engineers took over the yard to receive ammunition to be stored around the Charnwood Forest ahead of D Day. Yesterday and today the yards full potential was realised once again with the annual Heritage Bus and Rail Weekend in partnership with LEICESTER TRANSPORT HERITAGE TRUST.

The yard was busy throughout both days with visitors taking advantage of steam and diesel hauled trains running as well as heritage bus rides.

Quorn and the 1926 General Strike.100 years ago today saw the end of the 1926 General Strike, it was 9 day strike called...
12/05/2026

Quorn and the 1926 General Strike.

100 years ago today saw the end of the 1926 General Strike, it was 9 day strike called by the TUC to better worsening conditions for coal miners.

The railway system was virtually brought to a stand, and relied on ex-military personnel and members of the upper classes to keep trains moving. One gentleman recalled, “I immediately volunteered for the Great
Central Railway… sleeping happily on 3rd class carriage seats and jeered at by the
bloody-minded mutineers… a Lieutenant Colonel as driver… Our driver carried a
revolver which he said he would use if he were attacked.”

At Quorn & Woodhouse, William Curzon-Herrick who, in 1915 inherited the nearby Beaumanor Estate, helped at the station as a porter and saw to the few trains that ran.

He grew up in Woodhouse Eaves and often train spotted on the platform as a child. He married Lady Kathleen Hastings, the eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Huntingdon of Burton Hall in Burton-on-the-Wolds, and was quoted in a rather derogatory manner by his in-laws as "backward" saying that he could recite the whole of Bradshaw's off by heart and would have been "happiest living life as a Railway porter".

He and his wife Kathleen are pictured here.

A fine spring day at Quorn and Woodhouse today, the spring/summer blooms are looking splendid, a ferocious Deltic on sta...
09/05/2026

A fine spring day at Quorn and Woodhouse today, the spring/summer blooms are looking splendid, a ferocious Deltic on static display in the yard and two locos at the south of the station at once. A good day all round.

📸 Neil Simpson, Inspector

English Electric Type 3 D6700 is pictured entering Quorn and Woodhouse on a down service earlier during this Bank Holida...
04/05/2026

English Electric Type 3 D6700 is pictured entering Quorn and Woodhouse on a down service earlier during this Bank Holiday Monday.

With its train of maroon Mark 1 coaches, it is reminiscent of the Bournemouth to York express trains that ran through Quorn in the 1960s and were regularly hauled by Type 3s.

We've had a great and sunny weekend at Quorn & Woodhouse with the GCR's Spring Diesel Gala taking place; lots of trains...
26/04/2026

We've had a great and sunny weekend at Quorn & Woodhouse with the GCR's Spring Diesel Gala taking place; lots of trains, a busy platform and smiling faces.

📸 Ben Murray

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Quorn Station, Woodhouse Road
Quorndon
LE128AG

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