Caythorpe ex GN trackbed geograph-3103492-by-Ben-Brooksbank

Caythorpe railway station was a station in Caythorpe,

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. Built to serve the nearby village of the same name. It was on the

Grantham and Lincoln railway line The Grantham and Lincoln railway line was a line in Lincolnshire, built by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Great Northern Railway to shorten the distance between the town of Grantham and city of Lincoln. It had already formed a network ...

. The line was built by the

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. The station closed for passengers in 1962, for goods in 1964 and the line closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching rationalisation of the UK railway system. The site now houses
recycling centre
for household waste. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the

Great Northern Railway Act 1846 The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...

( 9 & 10 Vict. c. lxxi). On 1 January 1923 the company lost its identity as a constituent of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway. The line, opened in 1867, ran through land at Caythorpe owned by GNR chairman

George Hussey Packe George Hussey Packe (1 May 1796 – 2 July 1874) was a United Kingdom Member of Parliament, an army officer present at the Battle of Waterloo, and was instrumental in establishing the Great Northern Railway. Personal life George Hussey Packe ...

. Packe's land was the first in south-west Lincolnshire to be mined for iron ore.

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workings were either side of the line and used narrow gauge links to rail heads on the line."Great Northern Railway and London & North Western Railway Joint Line... "
, Steamrailways.com

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Disused railway stations in Lincolnshire Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962 {{Lincolnshire-railstation-stub