Tumby Woodside railway station was a station in

Tumby Woodside Tumby is a village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north from Coningsby and south from Horncastle, and in the civil parish of Kirkby on Bain. Tumby Woodside Tumby Woodside is a hamlet about ...

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 ...

, England on the

Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway The Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway, locally known as the New Line, was a railway line in England built to shorten the route between Lincoln and Firsby in Lincolnshire, England. It was built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR), and opened ...

which ran between

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...

and

Firsby Firsby is a small rural linear village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated east from the city and county town of Lincoln, south-east from the nearest market town of Spilsby, and inland fro ...

. The site is now left in an overgrown and unkempt state. The station masters house survives as a private residence. It served the village until closure in 1970 and was immortalised in 1964 in the song " Slow Train" by

Flanders and Swann Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo. Lyricist, actor and singer Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and composer and pianist Donald Swann (1923–1994) collaborated in writing and performing comic songs. They first worked together in a scho ...

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Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1913 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1915 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1923 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1970 Beeching closures in England 1913 establishments in England {{Lincolnshire-railstation-stub