Sleaford railway station

Sleaford
Location
Place	Sleaford
Local authority	North Kesteven, Lincolnshire
Coordinates	52°59′44″N 0°24′37″W / 52.995488°N 0.410350°W / 52.995488; -0.410350Coordinates: 52°59′44″N 0°24′37″W / 52.995488°N 0.410350°W / 52.995488; -0.410350
Grid reference	TF067454
Operations
Station code	SLR
Managed by	East Midlands Trains
Platforms in use	3
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.313 million
2005/06 *	0.322 million
2006/07 *	0.340 million
2007/08 *	316,320
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Sleaford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Sleaford railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England; the other station being Rauceby railway station. The station is 21.25 miles (34 km) south of Lincoln Central.

Sleaford is the last remaining market town in Lincolnshire to be served by both north-south and east-west lines.

Services

The main frequency is outlined below:

• 1tph Skegness (63mins)
• 1tph Nottingham (70min)

On Sundays there are 4 trains to Skegness and 5 to Nottingham

• 1tph (generally) Peterborough (25min)
• 1tph (generally) Lincoln (30min), with four trains per day extended to Doncaster (1hr20).

There are no Sunday services on this route.

History

Overview

The first railway in Sleaford was the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway which opened from Barkston Junction, north of Grantham on the Great Northern Railway main line on 16 June 1857 and on to Boston on 13 April 1859. This railway became part of the GNR in 1864.^[1]

This was followed by the GNR line from Bourne which opened on 2 January 1872.

Next came the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway which opened from Spalding through Sleaford to Ruskington on 6 March 1882, and from there to Lincoln on 1 August of the same year.

Finally the branch line to RAF Cranwell, then known as HMS Daedalus, opened in 1917.^[2]

Passenger services on the Bourne branch ceased on 22 September 1930, although the line remained open between Billingborough and Bourne for goods until 1964. The Cranwell branch closed in 1956.

The Grantham to Boston and Spalding to Lincoln lines remain open.

Summary of former services

Sample Train Timetable for July 1922

The table below shows the train departures from Sleaford on weekdays in July 1922.^[3]

References