Brocklesby railway station explained

Brocklesby
Status:Disused
Borough:Brocklesby, Lincolnshire
Country:England
Coordinates:53.6068°N -0.3099°W
Platforms:2
Original:Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway
Pregroup:Great Central Railway
Postgroup:LNER
Years:1848
Events:Opened
Years1:3 October 1993
Events1:Closed

Brocklesby railway station was a station near Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.[1] It was formally closed by British Rail on 3 October 1993.[2] [3] The station was located to suit the Earl of Yarborough, in his capacity as chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway who built the line. It included a private waiting room for the earl. The building was designed by architects Weightman and Hadfield in the Tudor Gothic style used throughout the line.[3] The building is listed as grade II, in which the style is referred to as Jacobean.

The unusual platform-based signal box is also a grade II listed building and became redundant due to resignalling works in December 2015.[4]

On 27 March 1907, two freight trains collided at Brocklesby.[5]

Notes and References

  1. British Railways Atlas.1947. p.22
  2. Web site: List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation) . http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20081108005147/http://www.dft.gov.uk/foi/responses/2006/feb/closuredatesformerbrstations/listofclosuredatestopassenge2682/ . dead . 2008-11-08 . 2011-07-08 . Department for Transport . 2006 . Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006 .
  3. 498216. 6 August 2013. Brocklesby station.
  4. Web site: Renewing the signalling in North Lincolnshire. Network Rail. 5 January 2016.
  5. Book: Trevena, Arthur . Trains in Trouble . 1 . 1980 . Atlantic Books . Redruth . 0-906899-01-X . 22–23 .