Sedgebrook railway station
Sedgebrook railway station was on the Nottingham to Grantham line in the East Midlands of England. The station lay between Bottesford and Grantham. It served a population of about 900 in the villages of Sedgebrook and Allington and the hamlet of Casthorpe, all in Lincolnshire. It was closed in 1956.[1]
Sedgebrook | |
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Location | Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire England |
Grid reference | SK854383 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
15 July 1850 | Opened |
2 July 1956 | Closed |
The line
The line opened as the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850.[2] It was then leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1855, but remained nominally independent until it was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
References
- G. Kingscott,Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books, 2004.
- "Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway". Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties. England. 12 July 1850. Retrieved 29 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Bottesford | Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham Leicester Belgrave Road to Grantham |
Grantham |
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