In this video we take a walk down the disused East Lincolnshire Railway. Also known as a the Great Northern Railway between Louth and Grimsby.
The now lost railway line was opened in 1848 and closed in 1970 to passengers. Although freight trains lasted until 1980 to access the Maltings in Louth. Some of the railway is still in user as part of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.
We’ll be starting our explore in Louth and working our way to Grimsby, around 14 miles north.
There were several intermediate stations along the route at Ludborough, North Thorseby, Holton-le-clay and Waltham and in 1905 a number of halts - smaller stations with less facilities - were opened a few of which we’ll see today - Fotherby Halt and Utterby Halt.
We will see abandoned relics and evidence of the railway including crossing gates, signal posts, stations, signal boxes and other installations such as fogmans huts and platelayers huts.
Louth was once an important junction, with former lines going off in several directions. The area around the station included many sidings, a turntable, goods sheds, signal boxes and the old malthouse. The main station building itself is Grade II listed and as we’ve just been seeing remains intact.
The two sides of the station were spanned with a roof, but this was taken down in the 1960s.
The station closed in 1970 when passenger services stopped.
After seeing the disused stations in the villages of Fotherby, and Utterby, we finish in Holton-Le-Clay with it's old station building, crossing gates, signal and remains of cattle docks.
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