Brocklesby railway station

Brocklesby railway station was a station near Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.[1] It was formally closed by British Rail on 3 October 1993.[2][3]

The station in 1967

Brocklesby
LocationBrocklesby, Lincolnshire
England
Coordinates53.60742°N 0.30822°W / 53.60742; -0.30822
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyGreat Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Post-groupingLNER
Key dates
1848Opened
3 October 1993Closed

The station was located to suit the Earl of Yarborough, in his capacity as chairman of the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway who built the line. It included a private waiting room for the Earl. The building was designed by architects Weightman and Hadfield in the Tudor Gothic style used throughout the line.[3] The building is listed as grade II, in which the style is referred to as Jacobean.[4]

The unusual platform-based signal box is also a grade II Listed building and became redundant due to resignalling works in December 2015.[5][6]

On 27 March 1907, two freight trains collided at Brocklesby.[7]

Former Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Barnetby   Great Central   Habrough

References
  1. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.22
  2. "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)". Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  3. Historic England. "Brocklesby station (498216)". PastScape. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  4. Historic England. "Brocklesby station  (Grade II) (1103715)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  5. Historic England. "Signal box at Brocklesby station  (Grade II) (1249630)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  6. "Renewing the signalling in North Lincolnshire". Network Rail. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  7. Trevena, Arthur (1980). Trains in Trouble. Vol. 1. Redruth: Atlantic Books. pp. 22–23. ISBN 0-906899-01-X.

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