Market Rasen railway station serves the town of

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History

It was built by the

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, with the opening of the line, in 1848. The station was a substantial structure with an overall roof below which all the usual station facilities could be found including a

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bookstall. The station buildings are

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. It is the only station now between Lincoln and Barnetby, but in the past there were many more (these mainly succumbed to the

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in 1965). The signal box which was at the south end of the Lincoln platform was removed to

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at Quorn and re-erected in 1987. Nowadays it is on the ''"Grimsby - Lincoln - Newark"'' line and is managed by

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Services

All services at Market Rasen are operated by

using Class 156,

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and

170 Year 170 ( CLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Clarus and Cornelius (or, less frequently, year 923 ''Ab urbe condita ...

DMUs. As of May 2021, the typical off-peak service is one train every two hours between and via and . There is also one train per day that continues to and from , increasing to three trains per day on a Saturday. On Sundays, there is a limited summer service of three trains per day between Nottingham and Cleethorpes with no service during the winter months.

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{{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Grade II listed buildings in Lincolnshire Market Rasen