Mantle Lane signal box, despite its name, is in the

centre of Coalville. The box looks to be in good condition when compared to its sister boxes at Bardon Hill to the east and Moira West to the west. The 1910 Midland box controls various freight movements on this section of track and the appropriate stabling of aggregate wagons. There remains considerable pressure to reopen the station at Coalville and a number of others between Leicester and Burton-on-Trent with the reinstatement of the route to become the Ivanhoe Line. However, after positive developments and government backing for the scheme it was announced in July 2024 that the new Labour administration had cut it, and most of the other re-openings for that matter, due to budget constraints.