Holton Village Halt was a

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on the East Lincolnshire Railway which served the village of

Holton-le-Clay Holton-le-Clay is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, around south of Grimsby. The village is twinned with Sargé-lès-le-Mans, Sarthe, France. History Ditched enclosures and bou ...

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between 1905 and 1961. The station, which opened as part of a new motor train service between and , was the second station to serve the village after Holton-le-Clay and Tetney situated further to the south. The line through Holton-le-Clay remained open for freight until December 1980.

History

The station was opened on 11 December 1905 to coincide with the introduction of a motor train service by the Great Northern Railway. It was the second station opened on the East Lincolnshire Line to serve the village of

. Holton-le-Clay and Tetney had opened in 1848 but was over a mile to the south of the village and more convenient for

Tetney Tetney is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, and just west of the Prime Meridian. History On the edge of the village is the site of a Marconi Beam Station from where telegrams were sent in 1927 to Australia and I ...

to the east, whilst Holton Village Halt was in the village itself. The station had two low parallel railmotor platforms to the south of a

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over Tetney Lane, with a timber waiting shelter and lamp on each platform. A stationhouse was situated on the north side of the crossing. It was of more substantial construction than the other halts on the line, such as which was unlit and had only one passenger shelter. Although the July 1922 timetable shows that passenger services only called at the station upon request, by August 1961 a total of seven trains from Grimsby called on weekdays, with an extra train running on Fridays. The station closed to passengers on 11 September 1961; it outlasted the earlier Holton-le-Clay station to the south by six years.

Present day

The halt was demolished by

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long before final closure of the line in December 1980 and little remains of it today. The level crossing gates to the south have survived and the stationhouse is in private occupation. The village of Holton-le-Clay has expanded over the fields which bordered the line, which has led one author to speculate that the East Lincolnshire Railway, if it had remained open, would have become a vital link between the village and Grimsby. On 28 September 1991, a

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authorised the reinstatement of the East Lincolnshire Railway between and the former Keddington Road level crossing near

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, which would include the line up to Holton-le-Clay station. The

Lincolnshire Wolds Railway The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (LWR) is a heritage railway based at Ludborough station, near Louth, Lincolnshire, England and the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire open to the public. The line is part of the original Great North ...

plans to extend the line up to Holton-Le-Clay station. The former village halt has now been built over with a housing development and the track bed to the south re-developed.

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External links

Holton Village Halt on navigable 1946 O. S. map
{{Closed stations Lincolnshire Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905 Former Great Northern Railway stations