The London, Midland and Scottish Railway absorbed all the local railways in the 1923 grouping. In 1931 the LMS withdrew passenger services from the Ashby and Nuneaton and Charnwood Forest lines and closed Hugglescote station. Nationalisation in 1948 made the lines part of British Railways, which withdrew freight services from the Charnwood Forest line in 1963 and from the Ashby and Nuneaton line in 1971. In 1964 BR withdrew passenger services from the Leicester to Burton line and closed Bagworth and Ellistown station.