Blaby railway station was a railway station on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line that served Blaby in Leicestershire, England.
[1] British Railways closed the station in 1968.
In July 1914, local suffragettes Ellen Sheriff and Elizabeth Frisby, along with experienced arsonist Kitty Marion, armed with wood-shavings dipped in creosol (and an axe, to break in) trekked across a field in the middle of the night and burned the station down, causing £500-worth of damage.
[2] A campaign to re-open the station was launched in 2008.
[3] Preserved Bagnall fireless steam locomotive no.