Sedgebrook railway station

Sedgebrook railway station was on the Nottingham to Grantham line in the East Midlands of England. The station lay between Bottesford and Grantham. It served a population of about 900 in the villages of Sedgebrook and Allington and the hamlet of Casthorpe, all in Lincolnshire. It was closed in 1956.[1]

Sedgebrook
General information
LocationSedgebrook, Lincolnshire
England
Grid referenceSK854383
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
15 July 1850Opened
2 July 1956Closed

The line

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The line opened as the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850.[2] It was then leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1855, but remained nominally independent until it was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.



References

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  1. ^ G. Kingscott,Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books, 2004.
  2. ^ "Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway". Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties. England. 12 July 1850. Retrieved 29 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Bottesford   Great Northern Railway
Nottingham to Grantham
Leicester Belgrave Road to Grantham
  Grantham

52°56′06″N 0°43′47″W / 52.9351°N 0.7297°W / 52.9351; -0.7297