Bourne railway station

Bourne
The station approach in 1961
Location
Place Bourne
Area South Kesteven
Grid reference TF095197
Operations
Original company Bourn and Essendine Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Platforms 2[1]
History
16 May 1860 Opened (Bourne)
May 1872 Renamed (Bourn)
1 July 1893 Renamed (Bourne)
2 March 1959 Closed[2]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Bourne was a railway station serving the town of Bourne in Lincolnshire which opened in 1860 and closed to passengers in 1959.[3]

Contents

History

Bourne to Sleaford branch
Legend
 ( to Grantham )
( To Lincoln )
Sleaford
( To Boston )
( To Peterborough )
Aswarby and Scredington
Billingboro and Horbling
Rippingale
Morton Road
( To Spalding )
Bourne
( to Saxby )
( to Essendine )

The station was on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway main line between the Midlands and the Norfolk Coast.[4] it was finally closed in 1959 when the M&GN was closed. The line from Spalding and also the Sleaford branch as far as Billingborough remained in use for goods until 1964. The remaining station buildings were demolished in 2005 to make way for new residential development.[5]

The original station opened in 1860 as the terminus of the Essendine & Bourne Railway, which provided connecting services to the Great Northern main line, and the local Stamford and Essendine. It was this company which took over the Red Hall rather than demolishing it. The line was operated by the GNR, and later owned by them. The line closed and was lifted in June 1951.[6]

The next development was the opening of the Bourne and Spalding Railway in 1866,[7] converting the site into a through station.

In 1870 the Great Northern exercised its powers to build the Bourne and Sleaford Railway, opening in 1872. Although operated by the same company, this line was run separately from the Essendine line, and had its own goods yard.[8] This line closed to passengers in 1930 although a 'special' for the Festival of Britain ran in 1950.

The last line to open was the Saxby to Bourne line, which was part of the Midland & Great Northern project, which subsumed the Bourne & Spalding route. This connection opened in 1894 and was closed to passengers, along with the Spalding line, in 1959.[9]

The original down platform remained outside the Red Hall, after conversion to a through layout, but was no longer used. A hedge was planted along the running line edge to prevent passengers approaching the line. This can be made out in both photographs here. From the Bourne & Spalding period A single island platform was used by passengers,[10] later reached by an iron lattice footbridge from the disused platform next to the Red Hall.[11] The footbridge was a characteristic Midland Railway design, and is likely to have been provided when the M&GN arrived. All passenger trains used the two faces of the island platform.[1]

Summary of former services

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Line and station closed
 Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
Line and station closed
Line and station closed
 Great Northern Railway
Essendine branch
 Terminus
Terminus Great Northern Railway
Line and station closed

Sample train timetable for July 1922

The table below shows the train departures from Bourne on weekdays in July 1922.[12]

Departure Going to Calling at Arrival Operator
07.45 King's Lynn Twenty, Counter Drain, North Drove, Spalding, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet, Gedney, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Walpole, Terrington, Clenchwarton, South Lynn 09.32 M&GN
07.45 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 07.59 GNR
08.55 Leicester Castle Bytham, South Witham, Edmondthorpe & Wymondham, Saxby, Melton Mowbray, Asfordby, Frisby, Brooksby, Rearsby, Syston 10.38 M&GN
09.05 Sleaford Morton Road, Rippingale, Billingborough & Horbling, Aswarby & Scredington 09.40 GNR
09.20 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 09.35 GNR
10.48 Sleaford Morton Road, Rippingale, Billingborough & Horbling, Aswarby & Scredington 11.23 GNR
10.53 King's Lynn Twenty, Counter Drain, North Drove, Spalding, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet, Gedney, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Walpole, Terrington, Clenchwarton, South Lynn 12.50 M&GN
12.10 Lowestoft Central Sutton Bridge, South Lynn, Melton Constable, Aylsham, North Walsham, Yarmouth Beach, Gorleston-on-Sea, Corton, Lowestoft North. Also through coaches to Norwich and Cromer. 16.16 M&GN
12.15 Leicester Saxby, Melton Mowbray 13.28 M&GN
12.37 Saxby Castle Bytham, South Witham, Edmondthorpe & Wymondham 13.19 M&GN
13.00 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 13.15 GNR
14.30 King's Lynn Twenty, Counter Drain, North Drove, Spalding, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet, Gedney, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Walpole, Terrington, Clenchwarton, South Lynn 16.45 M&GN
15.25 Sleaford Morton Road, Rippingale, Billingborough & Horbling, Aswarby & Scredington 16.00 GNR
15.28 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 15,43 GNR
16.28 Nottingham Castle Bytham, Saxby, Melton Mowbray 17.41 M&GN
16.40 Lowestoft Central South Lynn, Fakenham, Melton Constable, Aylsham, North Walsham, Stalham, Potter Heigham, Yarmouth Beach, Gorleston-on-Sea, Lowestoft North. Also through coaches to Norwich and Cromer. 20.24 M&GN
16.50 Spalding Twenty, Counter Drain, North Drove 17.11 M&GN
16.50 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 17.04 GNR
17.55 Sleaford Morton Road, Rippingale, Billingborough & Horbling, Aswarby & Scredington 18.30 GNR
18.05 King's Lynn Twenty, Counter Drain, North Drove, Spalding, Weston, Moulton, Whaplode, Holbeach, Fleet, Gedney, Long Sutton, Sutton Bridge, Walpole, Terrington, Clenchwarton, South Lynn 20.05 M&GN
18.13 Essendine Thurlby, Braceborough Spa 18.33 GNR
18.15 Leicester South Witham, Saxby, Syston 13.28 M&GN
18.27 Nottingham Castle Bytham, South Witham, Edmondthorpe & Wymondham, Saxby, Melton Mowbray 19.30 M&GN
21.07 Spalding Twenty 21.27 M&GN

References

  1. ^ a b Back, Micheal (2009). Branch lines around Spalding: M&GN Saxby to Long Sutton. Middleton Press. p. 12.  1930s track layout, valid till the end of services.
  2. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 40.
  3. ^ "National monument record for Bourne station, in the context of Bourne & Essendine". http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=506985. 
  4. ^ British Railways Atlas.1947. p.17
  5. ^ Bourne railway station.
  6. ^ "National monument record, Essendine & Bourne". http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1365423. 
  7. ^ "National monument record, Bourne & Spalding". http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1365028. 
  8. ^ "National monument record, Bourne & Sleaford". http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=136542. 
  9. ^ "National monument record, Midland & G N". http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1365034. 
  10. ^ Ordnance Survey (1891). England - Lincolnshire: 140/NE (Map). 1:10,560. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapsheet.aspx?compid=55127&sheetid=5106&ox=0&oy=0&zm=1&czm=10&x=331&y=354.  The island platform layout is clear, but the footbridge is not shown}}
  11. ^ Ordnance Survey (1931). England - Lincolnshire: 140/NE (Map). 1:10,560. http://www.old-maps.co.uk/.  The 1931 map does show the footbridge.
  12. ^ Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, July 1922

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