Burgh-le-Marsh was a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

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which served the town of

Burgh le Marsh Burgh le Marsh is a town, and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.OS Explorer map: Skegness, Alford & Spilsby: (1:25 000): Geography The town is built on a low hill surrounded by former marsh land, and the mar ...

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 ...

between 1848 and 1970. It originally opened as ''Burgh'', but was renamed in 1923. Withdrawal of goods facilities took place in 1966, followed by passenger services in 1970. The line through the station is now closed.

History

The station was opened on 3 September 1848 as ''Burgh'' after the settlement of

, and renamed following the railway grouping in 1923 to ''Burgh-le-Marsh'' to distinguish it from on the

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. It was constructed by

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and

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ing

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who, in January 1848, had taken over the contract to construct the section of the

between and from John Waring and Sons. This section was the last to be completed in September 1848 at an agreed cost of £123,000 (). The station was provided with parallel platforms, with the main buildings,

goods shed A goods shed is a railway building designed for storing goods before or after carriage in a train. A typical goods shed will have a track running through it to allow goods wagons to be unloaded under cover, although sometimes they were built ...

, cattle dock and

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on the up (east) side. Immediately to the north of the station was a

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over the main road leading to Burgh, two miles to the south-east. A long

refuge siding A refuge siding is a single-ended, or dead-end, siding off a running line, which may be used to temporarily accommodate a train so that another one can pass it. For example, a refuge siding might be used by a slow goods train to allow a fast passen ...

at the station was capable of holding 80 wagons. The July 1922 timetable saw six up and five down weekday services, plus one Sunday service each way, call at Burgh. The station was closed to goods traffic on 2 May 1966 and to passengers on 5 October 1970.

Present day

The station buildings and signal box have survived virtually intact in private ownership. The goods shed is also still standing and once housed a railway museum, now closed and whose contents have been dispersed. A section of the trackbed to the south between Burgh and

Bratoft Bratoft is a small hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately east from Spilsby, west from Burgh Le Marsh, and south from the A158 road. Bratoft Grade II listed Anglican church is dedicated to S ...

is owned by the

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and is open as a footpath. The trackbed to the north has been severed just beyond the station by the bypass around the village.

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Disused stations Burgh-le-Marsh
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