On a wet day, with rain falling, we are standing around 400 yards from a level crossing on a wide but not busy road. The crossing, protected by lifting barriers, is next to the former station, a building in red brick with stone Mullions.
North Kelsey station
between two ragged hedges is a 5-bar gate, and over the gate can be seen the house that was once the railway station, a find brick and stone building with a Welsh slate roof and many chimmenys scatteed around the roofs.
Former station building, now a private house

North Kelsey railway station was a railway station serving both the village of North Kelsey and town of Caistor in Lincolnshire, England, it was opened in 1848 and closed in 1965.[1][2]

Former Services
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Moortown   Great Central Railway   Howsham

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "North Kelsey station (507053)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  2. ↑ British Railways Atlas.1947. p. 22

 

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