Sedgebrook railway station
Former railway station in Lincolnshire, England
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Sedgebrook railway station was on the Nottingham to Grantham line in the East Midlands of England. The station lay between Bottesford and Grantham. It served a population of about 900 in the villages of Sedgebrook and Allington and the hamlet of Casthorpe, all in Lincolnshire. It was closed in 1956.[1]
Sedgebrook | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire England | ||||
| Grid reference | SK854383 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway Eastern Region of British Railways | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 15 July 1850 | Opened | ||||
| 2 July 1956 | Closed | ||||
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The line
The line opened as the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway on 15 July 1850.[2] It was then leased to the Great Northern Railway in 1855, but remained nominally independent until it was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.