Kirton Lindsey railway station serves the town of Kirton in Lindsey in North Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. The station was opened in 1849 on the former main line of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway which became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.[1]

Kirton Lindsey
Kirton Lindsey station platform looking NE towards Kirton Tunnel and Brigg
General information
Location	Kirton in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire England
Coordinates	53.485°N 0.594°W / 53.485; -0.594
Grid reference	SK933996
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	KTL
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1849
Passengers
2016/17	358
2017/18	290
2018/19	190
2019/20	272
2020/21	10
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station was built with two flanking platforms with the main station building on the Sheffield-bound side at the top of a long approach road. The Grimsby-bound platform had a simple waiting shelter and the platforms were linked by a latticed footbridge. The footbridge and Grimsby bound platform have since been removed and the route reduced to a single track at this point.

Service

All services at Kirton Lindsey are operated by Northern. The station was served by three trains per day in each direction between Sheffield and Cleethorpes which ran on Saturdays only. However these have been suspended since the COVID-19 lockdowns.[2]

Weekday services have not called here since October 1993, when British Rail withdrew them at the end of the summer timetable that year.[3]

The local council, however, is campaigning to increase this to an hourly service in each direction.[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Gainsborough Central		Northern Trains Brigg Branch Line Saturday only		Brigg
	Historical railways
Northorpe Line open, station closed		Great Central Railway Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway		Scawby Line open, station closed

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kirton Lindsey railway station.

• Timetable for train services on Northern Rail's website
• Train times and station information for Kirton Lindsey railway station from National Rail