![]() Market Rasen railway station in 2003 | |
General information | |
Location | Market Rasen, West Lindsey England |
Coordinates | 53°23′02″N0°20′13″W / 53.384°N 0.337°W Coordinates: 53°23′02″N0°20′13″W / 53.384°N 0.337°W |
Grid reference | TF107887 |
Managed by | East Midlands Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | MKR |
Classification | DfT category F1 |
Passengers | |
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Listed Building –Grade II | |
Feature | Railway Station |
Designated | 16 May 1984 |
Reference no. | 1359780 [1] |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Market Rasen railway station serves the town of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire,England.
It was built by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,with the opening of the line,in 1848. [2] The station was a substantial structure with an overall roof below which all the usual station facilities could be found including a W. H. Smith bookstall. The station buildings are Grade II listed. [1]
It is the only station now between Lincoln and Barnetby,but in the past there were many more (these mainly succumbed to the Beeching Axe in 1965). The signal box which was at the south end of the Lincoln platform was removed to Great Central Railway (heritage railway) at Quorn and re-erected in 1987.
Nowadays it is on the "Grimsby - Lincoln - Newark" line and is managed by East Midlands Railway.
All services at Market Rasen are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 156,158 and 170 DMUs. [3]
As of May 2021,the typical off-peak service is one train every two hours between Grimsby Town and Leicester via Lincoln and Nottingham. There is also one train per day that continues to and from Cleethorpes,increasing to three trains per day on a Saturday. [4] [5]
On Sundays,there is a limited summer service of three trains per day between Nottingham and Cleethorpes with no service during the winter months.
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Disused railways | ||||
Great Central Railway |
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