Leicester Nearly did not get a railway at first both Brunel and Stevenson both though it would not be feasible but with the finding one if not the biggest High Quality Coal shelf in England everyone was extremely willing to exploit the recent findings Resulting in Brittan's Number 3 and often Forgotten Railway the Leicester and Swannington in 1832

By the 1850's the Midland Counties, North Midland Railway , Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway all formed in 1844 to become the Midland Railway Company.

the Leicester and Swannington was under the Midland Counties by then thus becoming a small cog in the biggest network in the UK if not Industrialised world at this point in time

By this point the Midland Railway had a Firm Hold on the East Midlands, Namely the Trent Triangle flanked by the Major Hub cities of Derby Nottingham and Leicester on the three Corners

with the Assistance of the Scottish Archive Highly Detailed maps as you see here are able to be used and helps gives us a insight of how expansive the Rail network was just here showing Derby Station and the Midland Railway MPD now Etches park and the Matching Industrial estate the Home of several College buildings and the Head office of Modern Train Operating Company "East Midlands Railway" (EMR) at the Fittingly named "Locomotive House"