In 1861 John Addison of Westminster was commissioned to design the Railway that was to come throught Hinckley as well as Hinckley Railway Station, plans were submitted in April 1861 and later in the year the station was opened to the public. The Railway Station was set in open fields south of the town, reached only by a track directly from the market place. Gradually new roads were built to access the Station, one of those roads would become Station Road. The building provided for a town of Hinckley's standing was unjustifiably plain and undistinguished, this may have been due to the station being a long way from the town centre, or just down to financial reasons.