Belgrave and Birstall railway station was a railway station opened by the Great Central Railway in 1899. In 1991 Leicester North railway station was opened immediately to the south of Belgrave and Birstall railway station by the preserved Great Central heritage railway and is representative of the 1960s when the line was under control of British Railways Midland Region. It is currently[when?] the southern terminus of the railway. It served the villages of Belgrave and Birstall in Leicestershire.