Brocklesby railway station was a station near
Brocklesby
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Brocklesby is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south from Habrough, south-west from Immingham, and is located close to the border of both North Lincolnshire and North ...
,
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 ...
. It was formally closed by
British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
on 3 October 1993.
The station was located to suit the
Earl of Yarborough
Earl of Yarborough is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1837 for Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Baron Yarborough.
History
The Anderson-Pelham family descends from Francis Anderson of Manby, Lincolnshire. He marrie ...
, in his capacity as chairman of the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway who built the line. It included a private waiting room for the Earl. The building was designed by architects Weightman and Hadfield in the Tudor Gothic style used throughout the line.
[ The building is listed as grade II, in which the style is referred to as Jacobean.
The unusual platform-based signal box is also a grade II ]Listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
and became redundant due to resignalling works in December 2015.
On 27 March 1907, two freight trains collided at Brocklesby.
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Disused railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1993
Former Great Central Railway stations
Grade II listed buildings in Lincolnshire
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