Swinderby railway station serves the villages of

Swinderby Swinderby is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just north of the A46 road, south-west from Lincoln and north-east from Newark. Swinderby lies within a rural agricultur ...

, North Scarle, Eagle and

Morton Hall Morton Hall is a small village in the civil parish of Swinderby , in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated south-west from the City of Lincoln, and is centrally located between the nearby larger villages of Swind ...

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 station is south west of

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 ...

on the Nottingham to Lincoln Central Line, owned by

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and managed by

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who provide all services.

History

It is on the

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, which was engineered by

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and opened by the

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on 3 August 1846. The contractors for the line were Craven and Son of Newark and Nottingham; There was an accident at the station on 6 June 1928. A mail train derailed due to the poor state of the track which resulted in nine passengers and eight Post Office officials being injured. One of the passengers later died from his injuries. The whole train came off the rails and the engine turned on its side. Four elements of the station are each

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. *The station buildings on the north platform built of white brick dating from ca. 1850. *The station buildings on the south platform built of red brick dating from ca. 1850. *The station master’s house on Swinderby Road built of white brick dating from ca. 1850. *The Midland Railway type 3b signal box built of wood which was opened in 1901.

Stationmasters

In 1868, Thomas Grundy, station master, was brought before Mr Justice Hannen at Lincolnshire Assizes, charged with manslaughter of John Alsobrook and Thomas Moore at Swinderby on 11 November 1867. It was alleged that the station master had not taken proper precautions with the signalling and fog warning lights on a foggy evening and this neglect of his proper duty resulted in a collision between a fish train and a government train. The driver and fireman of the fish train were killed. The prosecution were unable to prove their case and Thomas Grundy was acquitted. *Mr. Coleman ca. 1847 *Thomas Grundy ca. 1854 - 1867 (afterwards station master at Collingham) *Richard Grice ca. 1871 1873 *W. Watkins 1873 *T. Green 1874 *Thomas Clarke 1874 - 1877 *William Elston 1877 - 1887 *Albert H. Baldwin 1887 - 1892 *J. Meakins 1892 - 1906 *E.H. Allen 1906 *E. Sluter ca. 1914

Facilities

The station, adjacent to the

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operated from the Swinderby

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, has two platforms which feature basic facilities. 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

All services at Swinderby are operated by

. The station is generally served by an hourly service southbound to via and northbound to , although there are some two hour gaps between services in the middle of the day. One train every two hours continues beyond Lincoln to , with a limited service continuing further to . The station is also served by five trains per day between Lincoln and . The station is also served by one train per day to and from

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which are operated using a Class 222 ''Meridian''. A roughly hourly service also serves the station on Sundays although services run only as far as Nottingham and do not serve stations to Leicester. There are no services to London on Sundays.

References

External links

* http://www.derby-signalling.org.uk/Newark.htm MIDLAND MICROCOSM {{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway 1846 establishments in England Grade II listed buildings in Lincolnshire