Stallingborough railway station serves the village of

Stallingborough Stallingborough is a village and civil parish in North East Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,234. History Prehistory-1840 The area around Stallingborough may have been inhabited in prehistoric ...

in North East Lincolnshire,

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. It was built by the

Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway The Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway was an early British railway company which existed between 1845 and 1847 with the intention of providing rail services between Grimsby, New Holland and Gainsborough in the county of Lincolnshire. ...

in 1848. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by East Midlands Railway. The manually operated

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel. The term a ...

gates seen in the photo and the wooden

Great Central Railway The Great Central Railway in England was formed when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its London Extension. On 1 January 1923, the company was grouped into the ...

signal box that operated them have both since been replaced by a modern brick structure and lifting barriers respectively - the new signal box is on northside of the line, and is one of a few little boxes to be built in recent years. The station building is a private house now, but there are shelters on both platforms.

Service

All services at Stallingborough are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 156 DMUs. The typical Monday-Saturday service is one train every two hours between and . There is a Sunday service of four trains per day in each direction during the summer months only. There are no winter Sunday services at the station. Services were previously operated by

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but transferred to East Midlands Railway as part of the May 2021 timetable changes.

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{{Lincolnshire railway stations Railway stations in the Borough of North East Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Central Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Former Northern franchise railway stations