North Thoresby railway station

North Thoresby
Station on heritage railway
North Thoresby up platform in 2018
General information
LocationNorth Thoresby, East Lindsey
England
Coordinates53°28′05″N 0°02′28″W / 53.4681°N 0.0410°W / 53.4681; -0.0410
Grid referenceTF301986
Operated byLincolnshire Wolds Railway
Platforms2
History
Original companyEast Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Northern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
1 March 1848Opened
30 December 1963Goods facilities withdrawn
5 October 1970Closed to passengers
December 1980Closure of line
26 August 2009Reopened by LWR

North Thoresby is a heritage railway station in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire. The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway,[1] closed in 1970, but has since been reopened by the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway. The first services to the station from Ludborough, to the south, ran in August 2009, the first in 47 years. The LWR aims to extend the line further in both directions, northwards as far as Holton-Le-Clay and southwards to Louth.

  1. ^ Conolly 2004, p. 22, section F2.