Market Rasen railway station

Railway station in Lincolnshire, England

53°23′02″N 0°20′13″W / 53.384°N 0.337°W / 53.384; -0.337Grid referenceTF107887Managed byEast Midlands RailwayPlatforms2Other informationStation codeMKRClassificationDfT category F1Passengers2018/19Increase 69,8402019/20Decrease 69,0082020/21Decrease 14,8462021/22Increase 51,2982022/23Increase 55,980
Listed Building – Grade II
FeatureRailway StationDesignated16 May 1984Reference no.1359780[1]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Market Rasen railway station serves the market town of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, England.

History

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.

Services

The station in the Up direction. 19 August 2011.

All services at Market Rasen are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 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.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
East Midlands Railway
Disused railways
Great Central Railway

References

  1. ^ a b Historic England, "Railway Station (1359780)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 March 2017
  2. ^ Cobb, M H (2003). Railway Atlas of Great Britain. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 364. ISBN 0711030030.
  3. ^ "EMR Regional Fleet". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 14 January 2024. Our Regional fleet is made up of 170s and 158s.
  4. ^ Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2021
  5. ^ "May 2021 Timetable Changes: Market Rasen". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 21 May 2021.

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