Appleby railway station (Lincolnshire)

This article is about the former railway station in Lincolnshire. For other similarly named railway stations see Appleby railway station.
Appleby
Signal box and level crossing at the site of Appleby railway station
Location
Place Appleby
Area Lincolnshire
Operations
Original company Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2
History
1 October 1866 Station opens
1 July 1923 Station renamed Appleby (Lincolnshire)
5 June 1967 Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Appleby railway station is a former railway station in Appleby, Lincolnshire, England.[1]

Former Services
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Scunthorpe   Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway   Elsham

Contents

History

The station was opened by the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway on its 14 mile long line from Gunness, on the east bank of the Trent where it made an end-on junction with the South Yorkshire Railway's line from Doncaster, and Wrawby Junction, near Barnetby, where it met the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from Retford to Grimsby. The station was, like others on the line, staggered over a level crossing. The line was absorbed by the M. S. & L. R., later becoming the Great Central Railway, becoming part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

Trains using the South TransPennine line still pass the site of the station.

References

  1. ^ British Railways Atlas.1947. p. 22

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