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Quorn and Woodhouse railway station is a heritage station on the Great Central Railway (preserved) serving Quorn & Woodhouse in Leicestershire. Travelling south from Loughborough, it is the first station that is reached. Here there is a large station yard which is suitable for parking. There is also disabled access through the yard (Loughborough now has a lift for disabled as well as access via stairs). Quorn is laid out to appear as it would in the 1940s, as a typical LNER station in the countryside. The signal box is not original but was taken from Market Rasen. The station is grade II listed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charnwood Borough Council - Listed Buildings - Quorn and Woodhouse Station, Woodhouse Road, Quorn )〕 and has a number of attractions, including the 1940s era NAAFI Tea Room situated underneath the station road bridge, a period Station Master's office, as well as wartime films showing in one of the waiting rooms. In 2011, a new Café called ''Butler-Henderson Tea Rooms'' was opened, the building, whilst not in keeping with the station itself, compliments its surroundings and provides another reason to stop off at the station. A turntable (60-foot balance model) was delivered to the station in January 2010 from Preston Docks. It had previously seen use in the ex-York Roundhouse in the days of steam. Work began on digging the foundations in June 2011 & it is expected to be completed in time for the annual ''Steam Railway Magazine'' gala in Early October 2011. ==In film & television== The station and Great Central Railway line were featured in the fourth episode of the 17th series of BBC's ''Top Gear'' programme, shown on 17 July 2011 during a train/car feature, which was filmed in June 2011.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Top Gear trio pull latest stunt at Great Central Railway )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quorn and Woodhouse railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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