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Re: Coming to Lincs. - Where to look ??
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 11 January 11 16:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Try the GENuki website. Lincolnshire seems to have some suitable details. Are you a member of the Family History Society? you could check out their website too. Enjoy your trip.
HTH
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Re: Coming to Lincs. - Where to look ??
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 12 January 11 15:23 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: An65 on Tuesday 11 January 11 15:04 GMT (UK)
Im so used to those little stops I was forgetting that bit - thanks Red. Of course our beloved county was once blessed with far more railway stations. a pox apon the Beeching name.

Anyway, have fun Galiano :)

Sadly the closure of Metheringham station (Blankney and Metheringham as it was on closure) predated the Beeching closure. I think the station was closed in the early 1950s, and reopened on the same site and platforms as Metheringham in the early 1970s.
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Re: Coming to Lincs. - Where to look ??
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 12 January 11 15:27 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Redroger on Wednesday 12 January 11 15:23 GMT (UK)
Sadly the closure of Metheringham station (Blankney and Metheringham as it was on closure) predated the Beeching closure. I think the station was closed in the early 1950s,

Yes and no ... it closed 11 Sept 1961 :)
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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 12 January 11 15:50 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Geoff, I thought it predated the beginnings of my railway employment, but obviously not.
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday 13 January 11 13:21 GMT (UK) »
oooh I didnt know that - mind u I wasnt born til 65 and as Red knows, the line that most interested me was Boston to Skeg - via Firsby Station where my mum was born.

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« Reply #14 on: Thursday 13 January 11 15:24 GMT (UK) »
The Firsby line (East Lincolnshire) was also not a victim of the Beeching cuts; though it was earmarked for closure in the Beeching report it was reprieved by the incoming government in 1964, but was closed in 1970 I believe Geoff.
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« Reply #15 on: Thursday 13 January 11 16:50 GMT (UK) »
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The Firsby line (East Lincolnshire) was also not a victim of the Beeching cuts; though it was earmarked for closure in the Beeching report it was reprieved by the incoming government in 1964, but was closed in 1970 I believe Geoff.

Yes, 1970 :)
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« Reply #16 on: Thursday 13 January 11 17:06 GMT (UK) »
September if I remember correctly. We caused a sensation by travelling home to Doncaster from Boston via Grimsby one August sunday that year, no one had though of that, but it was quicker and for fare payers cheaper which was why it wasn't advertised. They made more money out of the route via Peterborough!
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Re: Coming to Lincs. - Where to look ??
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 13 January 11 17:21 GMT (UK) »
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September if I remember correctly.

Close but no cigar - 5th October :P

I had ancestors at Louth station in 1851 - the Station Inspector's sister and mother were there.

He was a railway guard in 1842 (marriage), then had children born at
Croydon 1843 and 1847 (his wife's family lived there),  the second one bap Newmarket ???
Louth 1851
Lincoln 1854
By 1861 he was a varnish maker.

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