Impossible journeys

[Tomnick]

The station Eagle refers to are Sileby and Barrow-on-Soar. However if it is using the main lines (which I'm sure it does) then it won't pass through them as they are on the goods lines.

Anything from the Melton direction must pass through the Down platform at Sileby, as there's no slow to fast crossover until Sileby Jn (north of the station); likewise for Up trains. I'd argue that they pass through Barrow station too though, even if not on a platform line. Either way, nothing's normally booked to call at both Melton and Loughborough on the Down, though two do in the morning on the Up.