Disused railway lines and closed stations in Lincolnshire

379 miles of disused railway
189 closed stations
43 stations open today
55 named lost lines

Lincolnshire has 379 miles of disused railway and 189 closed stations, against 43 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 4.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Lincoln Loop Line, with 43 miles of its route inside Lincolnshire.

See Lincolnshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 379 miles of lost railway in Lincolnshire break down as 294 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 72 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 13 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Lincolnshire

55 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Lincolnshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Lincoln Loop Line	43
Bourne to Sutton Bridge Line	24
East Lincolnshire Railway	24
Mablethorpe Branch	21
Wragby to Louth Line	20
Nocton Estates Railway	18
Barkston to Lincoln Line	18
Bourne to Sleaford Line	17
Kirkstead and Little Steeping Railway	15
Axholme Joint Line	13
Saxby to Bourne Line	12
March and Spalding Line	9.8
Horncastle Branch	7.5
Normanby Park Sidings Branch	6.8
Bourne and Essendine Railway	5.2
Grantham and Skegness Line	5.2
Cranwell Branch Line	5.1
Highdyke to Stainby Branch	4.7
Edenham and Little Bytham Railway	4.1
Killingholme Branch	4.1
Spilsby Branch	4.1
Chesterfield to Lincoln Line	3.9
Skillington Road Junction & Stainby	3.8
Hatfield Moor Branch	3.5
Fockerby Branch	3.4
Misson Branch	3.2
Manchester and Cleethorpes Line	2.9
Torksey Branch	2.9
Lawyer's Farm	2.5
Peterborough, Wisbech and Sutton Bridge Branch Line M&GN	2.2
Peterborough to Yarmouth Line	2.0
West Marsh Sidings	2.0
Essendine to Stamford Branch	1.6
Courtaulds Siding	1.2
Pywipe Sidings	1.1
Spalding to Cuckoo Junction Line	0.9
Sproxton Branch	0.9
Wards Farm	0.8
High Street	0.7
Gainsborough Lower Yard	0.7

And 15 shorter stretches: Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lundy's Farm Railway, Newark Road, Stamford to Wansford Branch, Essendine to Bourne Line, Lincoln Avoiding Line, Withcall Tunnel, Grantham Metals Sidings, New Holland Pier, Christie House Farm, Immingham Storage Company Branch, Spalding to Welland Bank Junction Line, High Street Tunnel, Nottingham and Barnetby Line and Reckerby Farm.

Closed railway stations in Lincolnshire

All 189 closed and former stations in Lincolnshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Lincolnshire

43 stations in Lincolnshire still have a train service. The busiest are Lincoln (2.3 million a year), Grantham (1.5 million a year), Grimsby Town (438,712 a year), Skegness (397,520 a year) and Scunthorpe (379,072 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Nottinghamshire, Rutland, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Northamptonshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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