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]