Sedgebrook railway station was on the

Nottingham Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east ...

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

line in the East Midlands of England. The station lay between Bottesford and

. It served a population of about 900 in the villages of Sedgebrook and Allington and the hamlet of

Casthorpe Casthorpe is hamlet in the civil parish of Barrowby and the South Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. It is south-southwest from the city and county town of Lincoln, west from Grantham town centre, and west from Barrowby village. His ...

, all 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 ...

. It was closed in 1956.

The line

The line opened as the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850. It was then leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1855, but remained nominally independent until it was taken over by the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

in 1923.

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