Saxilby railway station serves

Saxilby Saxilby is a large village in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north-west from Lincoln, on the A57 road at the junction of the B1241. It is part of the civil parish of Saxilby and Ingleby, which includes the village of ...

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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. The station is 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 Sheffield-Lincoln line and the Doncaster-Lincoln Line. It was built by The Great Northern Railway and opened in 1849.

Facilities

The station has two platforms connected by a ramped footbridge over the line, which opened in the summer of 2014. Before the footbridge was built, the platforms were linked by a surface crossing. The station house has been converted for private use – a private dwelling and an office. The station is now unstaffed; all tickets must be obtained from the inspector on the train, as there are no

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at the station. Facilities are limited to shelters on each platform and a help point and

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for passenger enquiries and information about oncoming trains. There is bicycle storage and a small

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Services

Services at Saxilby are operated by

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and East Midlands Railway. On weekdays and Saturdays, the station is generally served by an hourly Northern Trains service between and via and . There are also five trains per day between and via Lincoln and , operated by East Midlands Railway. On Sundays, there is generally an hourly service between Lincoln and Sheffield, with some services continuing to and from . There are no Sunday services to Doncaster or Peterborough.

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{{Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations in Lincolnshire DfT Category F1 stations Former Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Northern franchise railway stations 1849 establishments in England