However the Midland, running to Rugby at that time and dependent on the LNWR for its path into London, was looking for an alternative.

It revived its plans for Bedford to go forward to Hitchin to join the Great Northern Railway.

The station was near the summit of the Kibworth Incline, the most northerly of the Leicester to Hitchin section.

It was built next to the bridge carrying the highway from Kibworth Beauchamp, still known at Station Street, and access was by means of wooden stairs to each platform.

In recent years, it has housed a fencing and wood merchants business but became empty in 2002.