Notes:  This station was situated about four miles south of Leicester and was the first stop on the Midland Counties Railway (MCR) line to Rugby. The first building at the station consisted of a standard design MCR single-storey structure in brick with a hipped tile roof. This was on the 'down' platform side, with an 'up' platform directly opposite. Both platforms were just to the north of a level crossing over the road between Wigston Magna and Blaby

In 1844 the MCR became a constituent part of the Midland Railway (MR). Being the first railway to serve the nearby village of Wigston Magna, the station was initially identified simply as Wigston, but in 1857 the MR opened their new line to Hitchin (for London via the GNR) and, in so doing, provided the second station on their new main line a few hundred yards to

Wigston South station received a number of improvements during its lifetime, particularly in 1862 when a second storey was added to the main station building. The most significant alteration came in 1890 when the 'up' platform was relocated to the south of the level crossing to reduce delays experienced by the increased road traffic between Wigston and Blaby.

Almost from the outset, a small goods yard with limited facilities (parcels and livestock) had been established to the east of the station on the north side of the road. It had a rail-served corrugated iron shed (after 1886) and other miscellaneous small buildings, from which a merchant supplied coal and building materials to the locality. In 1904 private sidings served Dunmore and

Wigston South can claim to be one of the few stations after which a suburb later became named. This came about because in 1840 the MCR built their station in open countryside over a mile from the old village of Wigston Magna. The coming of the railway and the Industrial Revolution encouraged the development of new housing, and so it was that in the 1880s a new settlement grew to the east of the station and became known as South Wigston.

Eventually, the greater area of Wigston was to be served by no fewer than three railway stations, and of these the original MCR station proved to be the least used. Nevertheless the signage at Wigston South was renewed in 1957 (or shortly after) when the station received LMR vitreous enamel running-in boards, and fully-flanged totems which were fixed to the gas lamp

Although goods services were withdrawn at the same time the coal depot remained in use for a number of years longer closing on 2 May 1966 and the line to Rugby was used to store surplus wagons.  The track was lifted and the station buildings demolished in 1970.

In May 1986 British Rail potentially gave rise to confusion when a new station, South Wigston, was opened on the Leicester - Nuneaton line. It is about a quarter of a mile north-west of Wigston South, on a site adjacent to the former Wigtson Glen Parva station.

Tickets from: Michael Stewart and John Stevenson (087), timetables from John Stevenson and (BR-LMR) Alan Young,

Further reading: Leicestershire's stations by Andrew Moore (Laurel House 1998).

See also: Wigston Magna and Wigston Glen Parva

See also Wigton Motiver Power depot