The Grantham to Skegness Line
The Grantham to Skegness Line links 11 stations, with a top line speed of 60 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 90 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 11 |
| Top line speed | 60 mph |
| Passengers a year | 1.1 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | GRS2, GRS3, GRS4, GRS1 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Ancaster5,532 a year
- Rauceby5,004 a year
- Sleaford295,790 a year
- Heckington40,268 a year
- Swineshead1,232 a year
- Hubberts Bridge764 a year
- Boston267,184 a year
- Thorpe Culvert788 a year
- Wainfleet47,824 a year
- Havenhouse902 a year
- Skegness397,520 a year
The busiest station on the line is Skegness, 397,520 entries and exits a year and 986th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Grantham to Skegness Line on 27 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 7 paths on the Wednesday, no paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 20:00 to 21:00 on the Wednesday, with 4 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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