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The History

This could take a while! I was given this site for Christmas 2014 and expect it to be relatively operational by 2020......

Woodhall Junction is an old railway station - please, not train station - in Lincolnshire. It was built in 1848 by the Great Northern Railway as part of their Loop Line from Peterborough to Doncaster by way of the Lincolnshire towns of Spalding, Boston, Lincoln and Gainborough. Opened in 1848 it served as the company's main line to the north until it opened the Towns Line, what we now call the East Coast Main Line running through Grantham,.Newark and Retford. Woodhall Junction closed in October 1970 as part of the Beeching cuts to British Railways. Sue and I bought it in 1992 and have done our best to maintain the railway atmosphere without living in a museum

Protective headgear always a good idea with sheep around...

The oldest picture we have of the station, then called Kirkstead. It was taken in the late 1880s before the swing bridge opened in 1889 but after the locomotive seen was rebuilt in the late 1870s/early 80s