Ancaster railway station serves the village of Ancaster in

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

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. The

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is north of

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

on the Nottingham to Skegness Line. The station is now owned by

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and managed by

East Midlands Railway Abellio East Midlands Limited, trading as East Midlands Railway (EMR), is a train operating company in England, owned by Abellio, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise. History In March 2017, the Department for Transport a ...

who provide all rail services. It still has a working signal box at west end of the station, however is regarded as unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters,

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storage, timetables and modern 'Help Points'. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the

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on the train at no extra cost, there are no retail facilities at this station.

History

Opened by the

Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway opened a railway line between Grantham and Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, through Sleaford, England. It opened in two stages, in 1857 and 1859. Although not a major line, it formed part of a route f ...

, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

during the

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of 1923. The station then passed on to the

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in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by

Regional Railways Regional Railways was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982 that existed until 1997, two years after privatisation. The sector was originally called ''Provincial''. Regional Railways was the most subsidised (per pas ...

until the

Privatisation of British Rail The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands. Begun in 1994, it had been completed by 1997. The deregulation of the industr ...

ways.

Services

As of December 2015 there are four daily services in both directions which run to and , with three services on a Saturday. There are no Sunday services. A Normal service operates on most Bank holidays.

References

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External links

Station on navigable O.S. map.
{{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway 1857 establishments in England