Sleaford railway station
Sleaford 
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| Location | |
| Place | Sleaford |
| Local authority | North Kesteven, Lincolnshire |
| Coordinates | 52°59′44″N 0°24′37″W / 52.995488°N 0.410350°WCoordinates: 52°59′44″N 0°24′37″W / 52.995488°N 0.410350°W |
| Grid reference | TF067454 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SLR |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 336,944 |
| 2012/13 |
 311,490 |
| 2013/14 |
301,349 |
| 2014/15 |
312,888 |
| 2015/16 |
321,288 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sleaford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Sleaford railway station serves the town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England. The station is 21.25 miles (34 km) south of Lincoln Central.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Trains (EMT) train operating company (TOC) who provide all rail services.
Sleaford is the last remaining market town in Lincolnshire to be served by both north-south and east-west lines.
The Sleaford Navigation, which canalised a 12.5 mile stretch the River Slea, opened in 1794. It facilitated the export of agricultural produce to the midlands and the import of coal and oil. Mills sprang up along the river's course and the Navigation Company's wharves were built near its office on Carre Street. In 1827, the River Witham Navigation committee investigated the possibility of a railway allowing Ancaster stone to be transported to the Sleaford Navigation. The cost of doing so and competition from other quarries meant that their plans came to nothing.
An 1836 scheme envisaged a railway between Nottingham and Boston which would have stopped at Sleaford, but the plans never left the drawing board. Another attempt, the Eastern Counties scheme, unsuccessfully tried to build a railway between Lincoln and Cambridge, with a branch to Boston via Heckington and an extension to Sleaford. After protests from the Navigation company, the necessary Bill never passed. In 1845, the Ambergate Company designed a railway from Ambergate to Nottingham, with branches to Boston, Spalding, Grantham and Sleaford. A Bill to that effect passed through the Houses of Parliament in 1846, but the railway only reached Grantham. In the meantime, the more ambitious Great Northern Railway from London to York was also endorsed by an Act of Parliament; it passed through Grantham and a loop line from Boston to Lincoln was operating by 1848, yet its planned extension between Boston and Sleaford was not sanctioned.
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