Sleaford Railway Station :: Shared Description

The first railway in Sleaford was the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway which opened from Barkston Junction, north of Grantham on the Great Northern Railway main line on 16 June 1857 and on to Boston on 13 April 1859. This railway became part of the GNR in 1864.

This was followed by the GNR line from Bourne which opened on 2 January 1872.

Next came the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway which opened from Spalding through Sleaford to Ruskington on 6 March 1882, and from there to Lincoln on 1 August of the same year.

Finally the branch line to RAF Cranwell, then known as HMS Daedalus, opened in 1917.

Passenger services on the Bourne branch ceased on 22 September 1930, although the line remained open between Billingborough and Bourne for goods until 1964. The Cranwell branch closed in 1956.

The Grantham to Boston and Spalding to Lincoln lines remain open.

It is still one of the only places left to have signal boxes named 'North','South','West' & 'East' around the area. With the North and South boxes on the Peterborough to Lincoln line, and then the West and East boxes are at each end of the station on the Grantham to Boston line. So if travelling from Lincoln to Peterborough on the train you would pass all 4 boxes.
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* Update 2014 - Due to engineering works over the course of 2014, the north and south boxes have been decommissioned.
by Ashley Dace
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24 images use this description:

TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford West Signal Box by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Footbridge - Sleaford Station by Stephen McKay
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford East Signal Box by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Railway at Sleaford by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : The train now arriving . . . by Alan Murray-Rust
TF0645 : Sleaford East Signal Box by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford East Signal Box by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by JThomas
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford Station by Stephen McKay
TF0645 : At Sleaford by Bob Harvey
TF0645 : Sleaford Station from the east by Alan Murray-Rust
TF0645 : Railway heading west from Sleaford Railway Station by JThomas
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by JThomas
TF0645 : Sleaford Station by Alan Murray-Rust
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford Station footbridge by Alan Murray-Rust
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford Station by Alan Murray-Rust
TF0645 : Sleaford Railway Station by Ashley Dace
TF0645 : Sleaford East Signal box by Alan Murray-Rust


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Created: Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Updated: Sat, 9 Sep 2017

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