Ruskington railway station serves the village of Ruskington in

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 ...

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. It opened in 1882 as part of the

Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway The Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, colloquially referred to as "the Joint Line"''Joint Line Joy'', in the Railway Magazine, June 2015 was a railway line connecting Doncaster and Lincoln with March and Huntingdon in the eastern cou ...

between

Sleaford Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Centred on the former parish of New Sleaford, the modern boundaries and urban area include Quarrington to the south-west, Holdingham to the nor ...

and

Lincoln Central Lincoln railway station (previously Lincoln Central) serves the city of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. East Midlands Railway provides the majority of services from th ...

. It closed in 1961 but was reopened in 1975. The station is now owned by

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and managed by East Midlands Railway who provide all rail services. The station is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than free car parking, two shelters, bicycle 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. In 2014 work was undertaken to improve access at the station. This included the construction of new railway bridges and disabled access ramps to safely cross the lines. Previous access from one platform to the other was by crossing both railway lines.

Services

All services at Ruskington are operated by East Midlands Railway. On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly service northbound to and southbound to via . Five trains per day are extended beyond Lincoln to . The station is also served by a single daily service to and from . There is no Sunday service at the station.

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Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway stations Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1975 Reopened railway stations in Great Britain {{Lincolnshire-railstation-stub