Horncastle railway station
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Horncastle railway station was a station in Horncastle, Lincolnshire
, England
. It was at the end of a short branch line that ran from Woodhall Junction which opened in 1855. Like many fairly rural stations it was eventually shut as the rail network was cutback, with passenger trains ceasing in 1954 and goods and freight terminating on 5 April 1971.
The station building was demolished in the 1980s and the site is now occupied by Bush Tyres and by the Granary Way Housing Estate. One of the warehouses in the goods yard remains.
The track bed to Woodhall Spa survives as a long distance footpath.
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...
, England
England
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. It was at the end of a short branch line that ran from Woodhall Junction which opened in 1855. Like many fairly rural stations it was eventually shut as the rail network was cutback, with passenger trains ceasing in 1954 and goods and freight terminating on 5 April 1971.
The station building was demolished in the 1980s and the site is now occupied by Bush Tyres and by the Granary Way Housing Estate. One of the warehouses in the goods yard remains.
The track bed to Woodhall Spa survives as a long distance footpath.