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Bagworth is a village in Leicestershire, England, 9 miles (14 km) west of Leicester. There are records of the manor of Bagworth from the early 14th and early 15th centuries, when it was held by the same feudal lords as the neighbouring manor of Thornton. In 1761 Baron Maynard funded the building and endowment of a village school for Bagworth. In 1832 the Leicester and Swannington Railway was opened. It passed within 1/2-mile (800 m) of Bagworth and provided a railway station to serve the village. The Midland Railway took over the Leicester and Swannington in 1845 and opened a new Bagworth railway station 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the centre of the old village in 1849. The new station was renamed Bagworth and Ellistown in 1894 to reflect the nearby colliery village that had developed since Ellistown colliery was sunk in 1873. British Railways withdrew passenger services from the line and closed the station in September 1964. The railway remains open for freight. In the 1990s BR planned to restore Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line passenger services through Bagworth as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project. However, after the privatisation of British Rail in 1995 this phase of the project was discontinued. In 2009 the Association of Train Operating Companies published a £49 million proposal to restore passenger services to the line that would include reopening a station at Bagworth.
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