Langrick railway station was a station in
Langrick,
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a Counties of England, 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-we ...
, England, on the line between
Boston
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and
Lincoln
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.
History
Langrick station opened on 17 October 1848. It closed, along with the
Lincolnshire Loop Line
The Lincolnshire loop line was a double-track railway built by the Great Northern Railway, that linked Peterborough to Lincoln via Spalding and Boston.
History
The Lincolnshire loop line was authorised on 26 June 1846 as part of the London a ...
on 17 June 1963.
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The station had two brick platforms immediately east of the level crossing on Ferry Road. The main building stood at right angles to the platform, with the booking office behind the station masters house which led to a waiting room facing onto the "up" platform. The signal box was sited at the east end of the station.][
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Accidents and incidents
*On 8 March 1937, a passenger train, hauled by Ex- GNR Class H4 2-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels. ...
No. 126, was derailed due to the poor condition of the track.
Site
Langrick Station Cafe now occupies what was the ticket office . The possibility that the building now standing is a much-converted original station office . The building does however stand on the same axis as the original, on Ferry Lane, in Langrick.
The Water Rail Way is a Sustrans
Sustrans is a United Kingdom-based walking, wheeling and cycling charity, and the custodian of the National Cycle Network.
Its flagship project is the National Cycle Network, which has created of signed cycle routes throughout the United K ...
cycle route (number one) which follows the line of the former Lincoln to Boston railway line, including Langrick.
References
{{Closed stations Lincolnshire
Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire
Former Great Northern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963