North Thoresby railway station

North Thoresby
Restored Up platform in 2009.
Location
Place	North Thoresby
Area	East Lindsey
Grid reference	TF301986
Operations
Original company	East Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways
Operated by	Lincolnshire Wolds Railway
Platforms	2
History
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30 December 1963	Goods facilities withdrawn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
Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom
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North Thoresby is a heritage railway station in North Thoresby, Lincolnshire. The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, closed in 1970, but has recently 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. There are proposals to extend the line further in both directions towards Holton-Le-Clay and Louth.

The station was opened on 1 March 1848 to serve the Lincolnshire village of North Thoresby. It was constructed by contractor John Waring and Sons of Rotherham who, in December 1846, had agreed to construct the line between Grimsby and Louth for the sum of £46,102 (£NaN as of 2017). The architects of the station buildings were John Grey Weightman and Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield.

The station was provided with staggered platforms either side of a level crossing; the up platform to the south of the crossing and the down to the north. The stationmaster's house, similar to that at Ludborough, was adjacent to the down platform and comprised the booking office and passenger waiting room.

A signal box which contained 25 levers was situated on the north side of the level crossing and controlled the crossing gates as well as access to the small goods yard with a siding on each side of the line. The siding on the down side ran into a loading dock behind the down platform. Unlike Ludborough, the station had no goods shed. The goods yard closed on 30 December 1963, but the station remained open to passengers until 5 October 1970. In 1956-57, around a dozen passenger trains bound for Grimsby called at the station on weekdays, with the first two being local workings from Louth, save for a Mondays only service which called only to set down passengers. In the other direction, fewer services ran through to Peterborough North, but the up/down passenger workings balanced once services to Louth were taken into account. North Thoresby was the only intermediate station between Grimsby and Louth to remain open until October 1970.After 1970 the down line was removed and only the up line through the station remained. The line finally closed in December 1980.