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Counter Drain railway station was a remote station 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 ...
serving the village of
Tongue End __NOTOC__ Tongue End is a small village in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from Bourne and south-west from Spalding, and alongside the Counter Drain that runs between Baston and Pode Hole. Tongue End ...
. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway (opened 1866), later part of the
Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway The Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway (M&GNJR) was a railway network in England, in the area connecting southern Lincolnshire, the Isle of Ely and north Norfolk. It developed from several local independent concerns and was incorporated i ...
which ran across
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to the Norfolk Coast. The station opened with the line on 1 August 1866, closed temporarily between 9 October 1880 and 1 February 1881, and closed permanently on 2 March 1959, although the line remained open for goods until 1964. The three intermediate stations between and had unusual names, because there were few nearby settlements; " Counter Drain" was the name of a drainage ditch close to the station.


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Counter Drain Station on 1946 O. S. map
{{Closed stations Lincolnshire Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire Former Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1880 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 1866 establishments in England