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Louth railway station was a station in Louth, Lincolnshire, England.It served as a junction for several different now closed lines which converged on the town. [3]The closure of the station has left Louth which has over 16,000 residents the largest town in Lincolnshire without a railway station.
The line was opened in 1848 as the East Lincolnshire Railway which served the towns of Grimsby, Louth and Boston.. It was opened to passengers the same year with stations at Ludborough, North Thoresby and Waltham while there was various halts along the Grimsby-Louth section which opened during the railmotor era of the line but all these closed in the 1930s/60s.
English: Louth railway station (site), Lincolnshire Opened in 1848 by the Great Northern Railway on its line from Boston to Grimsby, this station closed in 1970, and is now private housing. Forecourt
The station closed to passengers in 1970 along with the Mablethorpe Loop Line and the section from Firsby to Louth of the East Lincolnshire Railway. The section to Grimsby remained in use for freight traffic until December 1980 when it closed and was later removed. The station building and Louth North Signal Box remain as private dwellings.
The East Lincolnshire Railway was a main line railway linking the towns of Boston, Alford, Louth and Grimsby in Lincolnshire, England.It opened in 1848. The ELR Company had leased the line to the Great Northern Railway, and it was the latter which constructed the line and operated it, as its East Lincolnshire Line.
The Great Northern Railway worked the trains on the East Lincolnshire Line, and it was agreed with the MS&LR that each company's trains would operate throughout between New Holland and Louth. The East Lincolnshire Railway had originally planned a separate station, but it had been agreed that the GNR would use the MS&LR station.
The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (LWR) is a heritage railway based at Ludborough station, near Louth, Lincolnshire, England and the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire open to the public. [1]
Louth station on the East Lincolnshire Line, was the northern terminus of the Mablethorpe Loop Railway until 1960. Over the years, loop passenger services were quite varied. Some of the 8 to 10 ordinary trains a day ran from Louth to Willoughby, but there were also Mablethorpe to Willoughby and Sutton to Louth workings.