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LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY STATIONS

All pictures of Lincolnshire railway stations and their various associated accoutrements are shown here, whether ancient or modern, excepting those shown elsewhere (Midland & Great Northern Railway, Edenham & Little Bytham Railway). Lincolnshire is the second largest county in Britain by area but has a population of only just over a million. The largest town is Lincoln at just over 100,000. Therefore, the county, which had quite a dense railway network in times past, boasted many stations but very few of them were very large or very grand, especially as many previously belonged to the Great Northern Railway, which famously spared every expense when it came to building stations.
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HORNCASTLE - 1930's - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here before World War Two with the overall roof still in situ.
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HORNCASTLE - 1930's - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here before World War Two with the overall roof still in situ.

  • HOLTON LE MOOR - 1950's - Opened on November 1st, 1848, on the Lincoln to Cleethorpes line just north of Market Rasen as plain Holton. The suffix was added by the LNER in 1923 for differentiation purposes. The station closed to all traffic on November 1st, 1965, meaning it was open for exactly 117 years! The station house survives as a private home.
  • HOLTON VILLAGE HALT - 1961 - This station was opened in December 1905 on the East Lincolnshire Railway to serve the village of Holton-le-Clay. The station opened as part of a new GNR motor train service between Grimsby and Louth. The station had two low parallel railmotor platforms to the south of a level crossing over Tetney Lane, with a timber waiting shelter and lamp on each platform. A stationhouse was situated on the north side of the crossing. Although the July 1922 timetable shows that passenger services only called at the station upon request, by August 1961 a total of seven trains from Grimsby called on weekdays, with an extra train running on Fridays. The station closed to passengers in September 1961. The halt was demolished by British Rail long before final closure of the line in December 1980 and little remains of it today. The level crossing gates to the south have survived and the stationhouse is in private occupation.
  • HONINGTON - 1930's - Opened in July 1857 on the GNR line from Barkston Junction to Sleaford, Honington was very minor station. Seen here looking west, note the short platforms and the temporary nature of the wooden buildings. Note also the typically lofty GNR signal post. The station closed in September 1962 but, amazingly, the platforms still survive.
  • HORNCASTLE - 1930's - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here before World War Two with the overall roof still in situ.
  • HORNCASTLE - 1950's - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here after closure to passengers.
  • HORNCASTLE - 1954 - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here in April 1954 with Class J6 No.64260 in the station.
  • HORNCASTLE - 1964 - Horncastle was the terminus of a 7 mile long branchline from Woodhall Junction on the Lincoln - Boston Loop Line. Surrounded by railways, they had all managed to bypass Horncastle so in 1854 a group of local business deicded to build a line to this small but important regional town. The route opened in 1855 and Horncastle Station was substantial affair with a single platform, run round loop, a short bay platform and a sizeable goods yard serving several local industries including the large mill in the background of this shot. Passenger numbers fell off sharply after World War Two, partly assisted by the fact that the branch had closed for the duration. Passenger services ceased in September 1954 but goods services lasted until April 1971. Seen here on September 12th, 1964, when the RCTS ran a 'Notts. & Lincs. Rail Tour' hauled in part by Class 5MT No.44918, the last steam engine to travel the branch.
  • HOWSHAM - 1950's - Opened in 1848 on the line from Lincoln to the major junction of Barnetby-le-Wold, Howsham was never a very busy station. Like many of the smaller, intermediate stations on this line, it closed in November 1965, although the line remains open. The station buildings survive as a private residence.
  • HOWSHAM - 1950's - Opened in 1848 on the line from Lincoln to the major junction of Barnetby-le-Wold, Howsham was never a very busy station. Like many of the smaller, intermediate stations on this line, it closed in November 1965, although the line remains open. The station buildings survive as a private residence. The remainder of the facilities were negligible.
  • HUBBERT'S BRIDGE - 1970's - Opened in 1859, Hubbert's Bridge is the last stop before Boston on the line from Sleaford. It sees around 500 passengers per year using the 4 stopping services per day and, really, this is about it. The eastbound platform can accommodate 3-coach trains but the westbound only 2. The gates are hand-operated and nearly all of the signals are semaphores. The buildings on the eastbound platform have been demolished and a new platform built on the river side but the signalbox remains.
  • HUBBERT'S BRIDGE - 2007 - Opened in 1859, Hubbert's Bridge is the last stop before Boston on the line from Sleaford. It sees around 500 passengers per year using the 4 stopping services per day and, really, this is about it. The eastbound platform can accommodate 3-coach trains but the westbound, on which I'm standing, only 2. The gates are hand-operated and nearly all of the signals are semaphores. As is commonplace in the Fens, it can be seen that nothing is truly vertical! Seen here in May 2007.
  • HUBBERTS BRIDGE - 1953 - Compare this picture with the one I took in 2007 from a similar position and you will see that almost everything has changed. All of the buildings are gone, as has the goods yard, the signal box is on the other side of the line, even the platforms are different.
  • HUBBERTS BRIDGE - 1970 - Opened in 1859, Hubbert's Bridge is the last stop before Boston on the line from Sleaford. It sees around 500 passengers per year using the 4 stopping services per day and, really, this is about it. The eastbound platform can accommodate 3-coach trains but the westbound only 2. The gates are hand-operated and nearly all of the signals are semaphores. The buildings on the eastbound platform have been demolished and a new platform built on the river side but the signalbox remains - seen here in July 1970.
  • HUBBERTS BRIDGE - 2021 - The level crossing and signal box, 26/04/21. I wish Network Rail good luck in getting rid of this set up - the drain is five feet to the left, out of shot, level crossing, crossroads behind the box and station platform adjacent!
  • HUBBERTS BRIDGE - 2021 - The new westbound platform, only recently completed. The old one, made of plywood, was very rickety. Note the platform is raised on piles - this is because Hammond Beck Drain is literally five feet beyond the platform and the bank will bear no weight. According to the signalman, they currently have one passenger a day, a girl who goes to school in Boston (and presumably comes home again!)
  • HUBBERTS BRIDGE - 2021 - The signalman closes the level crossing gates as 60062 STAINLESS PIONEER waits on the Bescot Yard - Boston Sleaford Sidings steel train, 26/04/21.
  • HYKEHAM - 1950's - Opened in August 1846, Hykeham is the first stop out of Lincoln on the line to Nottingham. The station, which features only the most basic of facilities today, does not look a lot more plush in this 1950's picture. Nevertheless, the station generated nearly 50,000 passengers in the year 2014/15.
  • IMMINGHAM DOCK - 1920's - Immingham Dock was opened IN November 1913 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River Humber. In order to get their workers from Hull, Barton upon Humber, New Holland and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the Barton and Immingham Light Railway, which terminated at the temporary Immingham Western Jetty railway station near to the curving embankment which carried trains up to the Western Jetty itself. The temporary station lasted for some years. A new station nearer to the docks was opened in 1922 and it is this station we see here. Dock workers from the Grimsby direction were catered for by the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway which also terminated at a station named Immingham Dock. Trains and trams at the two stations faced each other from opposite sides of the dock's entrance lock gates.<br /> The station had a single curving platform with a run round facility and a small pagoda - style station building which housed the usual facilities. The platform was constructed in wood, later rebuilt with concrete supports. Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of Goxhill, passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham. The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch in June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954 via Ulceby was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from Cleethorpes, calling at New Clee, Grimsby Docks and Grimsby Town then non-stop via Habrough, at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes. This service was withdrawn in October 1969 when the station finally closed. No trace of the station remains today.
  • IMMINGHAM DOCK - 1950's - Immingham Dock was opened IN November 1913 by the Great Central Railway at a point where the deep water channel came close to the Lincolnshire bank of the River Humber. In order to get their workers from Hull, Barton upon Humber, New Holland and surrounding villages to the dock the company built the Barton and Immingham Light Railway, which terminated at the temporary Immingham Western Jetty railway station near to the curving embankment which carried trains up to the Western Jetty itself. The temporary station lasted for some years. A new station nearer to the docks was opened in 1922 and it is this station we see here. Dock workers from the Grimsby direction were catered for by the Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway which also terminated at a station named Immingham Dock. Trains and trams at the two stations faced each other from opposite sides of the dock's entrance lock gates.<br /> The station had a single curving platform with a run round facility and a small pagoda - style station building which housed the usual facilities. The platform was constructed in wood, later rebuilt with concrete supports. Services were provided from New Holland, leaving what is now the Barton Line south of Goxhill, passing through East Halton and Killingholme stations before reaching Immingham. The station escaped closure when passenger services were withdrawn from the branch in June 1963 because a service which had been provided since at least 1954 via Ulceby was upgraded from unadvertised workmen's trains to publicly timetabled passenger trains. These ran from Cleethorpes, calling at New Clee, Grimsby Docks and Grimsby Town then non-stop via Habrough, at times coinciding with dock workers' shift changes. This service was withdrawn in October 1969 when the station finally closed. No trace of the station remains today.
  • KEADBY & ALTHORPE - 1910's - Opened in October 1866 by the Great Central Railway, this was the first station west of Scunthorpe on the line to Sheffield. It sits right on the west bank of the River Trent, adjacent to the King George V Bridge, a combined road/rail bridge, which was lifting bridge until the late 1950's. It remains open, if much rationalised, and handles about 10,000 passengers per year.
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