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Eastoft Eastoft is a village and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England. It is situated within the Isle of Axholme, north-east from Crowle, and on the A161 road.OS Explorer Map 280: Isle of Axholme, Scunthorpe and Gainsborough: (1:25 000) : T ...
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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 ...
on the
Axholme Joint Railway The Axholme Joint Railway was a committee created as a joint enterprise between the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&Y) and the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was established by the North Eastern Railway Act of 31 July 1902. It took over ...
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History

The station was opened on 10 August 1903 when the passenger services started from Goole via Marshland Junction to and . It officially closed on 17 July 1933 but as there was no Sunday service the last train ran on 15 July 1933. The last passenger service to use the line through the station was run by the
North Axholme Secondary School The Axholme Academy (formerly North Axholme School) is a mixed secondary school located in Crowle, North Lincolnshire, England. History Secondary modern school North Axholme Secondary School opened in November 1957 with 240 children; it was a ...
on 1 April 1965.


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{{Closed stations Lincolnshire Disused railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire Former Axholme Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1933