Sedgebrook railway station was on the Nottingham to Grantham line in the East Midlands of England. The station lay between Bottesford and Grantham. It served a population of about 900 in the villages of Sedgebrook and Allington and the hamlet of Casthorpe, all in Lincolnshire. It was closed in 1956.[1]
Sedgebrook | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire England |
| Grid reference | SK854383 |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways |
| Key dates | |
| 15 July 1850 | Opened |
| 2 July 1956 | Closed |
The line
editThe line opened as the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850.[2] It was then leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1855, but remained nominally independent until it was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.
References
edit- ^ G. Kingscott,Lost Railways of Nottinghamshire, Newbury: Countryside Books, 2004.
- ^ "Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway". Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties. England. 12 July 1850. Retrieved 29 June 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bottesford | Great Northern Railway Nottingham to Grantham Leicester Belgrave Road to Grantham |
Grantham |