Saltfleetby railway station

Saltfleetby
Saltfleetby
General information
Location	Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire; England
Coordinates	53°23′24″N 0°10′13″E / 53.3899°N 0.1704°E
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Opened	17 October 1877; 146 years ago
Closed	5 December 1960; 63 years ago
Original company	Louth and East Coast Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	LNER

Saltfleetby railway station was a station in Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire on the line between Louth and Mablethorpe which was closed in 1960.^[1]^[2]

The station was opened on 17 October 1877 when the Louth and East Coast Railway opened the line between Louth and Mablethorpe.^[3]^[4] This line was connected to the Sutton and Willoughby Railway in 1888 to form the Mablethorpe loop.^[5]

The station closed on 5 December 1960 when the line between Louth and Mablethorpe was closed.^[6]

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Theddlethorpe Line and station closed		Great Northern Railway Mablethorpe loop railway		Grimoldby Line and station closed

References

^ British Railways Atlas.1947. p.17
^ Historic England. "Monument No. 507066". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 29 March 2013.
^ Grant 2017, p. 342.
^ Quick 2022, p. 399.
^ Grant 2017, p. 546.
^ Hurst 1992, p. 17 (ref 0832).

Bibliography

Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.