Washingborough railway station was a railway station serving the village of

Washingborough Washingborough is a village in the North Kesteven district in Lincolnshire, England. Located east of Lincoln and from Sleaford. The population in the 2001 census was 3,356, increasing to 3,482 at the 2011 census. It is situated on the lower ...

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 ...

.British Railways Atlas.1947. p. 17

History

The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) on 17 October 1848. The GNR was a constituent of 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 ...

(LNER) which was formed on 1 January 1923; and it was the LNER which closed the station on 29 July 1940.

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Washingborough station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
{{Closed stations Lincolnshire Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1940