Rauceby Railway Station
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Rauceby railway station is a railway station serving the villages of Quarrington and
South Rauceby South Rauceby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from Sleaford. The village of North Rauceby is less than to the north. The 2001 Census recorded a village population of 3 ...
as well as the Greylees development.


History

The railway station originally served Rauceby village and later from 1902 Rauceby Mental Hospital (the former Kesteven Lunatic Asylum, which lies immediately to the south of the railway station and was closed in 1997) and the village of
South Rauceby South Rauceby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated west from Sleaford. The village of North Rauceby is less than to the north. The 2001 Census recorded a village population of 3 ...
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 ...
,
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. The line was built by the
Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway The Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway opened a railway line between Grantham and Boston, Lincolnshire, Boston, through Sleaford, England. It opened in two stages, in 1857 and 1859. Although not a major line, it formed part of a route f ...
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, proposed to his wife on a platform at the station.


Station

The station is now owned by
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and managed by
East Midlands Railway Abellio East Midlands Limited, trading as East Midlands Railway (EMR), is a train operating company in England, owned by Abellio, and is the current operator of the East Midlands franchise. History In March 2017, the Department for Transport a ...
, which provides all rail services. A local road crosses the line at the western edge of the platforms, where a signal box and manually operated crossing gates can be seen. The main Grantham to Sleaford road runs to the north of the railway station and crosses the line about a quarter of a mile north east of the station, where automatic barriers are used. Rauceby still has a working signal box at west end of the station, however the station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters,
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storage, timetables and modern 'Help Points'. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the
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on the train at no extra cost, there are no retail facilities at this station.


Services

In the winter 2023 timetable, there are four daily services eastward to and three westward to via Grantham, all at peak hours only. There are no Sunday services. A normal service operates on most Bank holidays.


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External links

* ; Rauceby station on 1891 OS map. {{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1881 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway 1881 establishments in England Sleaford