The first opened in 1832 as the western terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Railway.
Trains reached it via the Swannington Incline, which had a 1 in 17 gradient and was worked by a stationary engine.
The new line passed south of the original terminus and a new Swannington station was opened on it, leaving the original Swannington terminus to remain as a goods depot.
The second Swannington station was closed in 1951 but the line remains open for freight traffic.
This article on a railway station in the East Midlands is a stub.