North Thoresby | |
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Station on heritage railway | |
General information | |
Location | North Thoresby, East Lindsey England |
Coordinates | 53°28′05″N 0°02′28″W / 53.4681°N 0.0410°W |
Grid reference | TF301986 |
Operated by | Lincolnshire Wolds Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
Original company | East Lincolnshire Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways |
Key dates | |
1 March 1848 | Opened |
30 December 1963 | Goods facilities withdrawn |
5 October 1970 | Closed to passengers |
December 1980 | Closure of line |
26 August 2009 | Reopened 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.