7th Feb 1991
If you were to Google Firsby station you would discover a wealth of images of what would seem to be a very busy and important railway station and junction, but looking at this view you would not put the two locations together. But they are one and the same!
Until 1970 Firsby station was the junction for two branchlines, those to Spilsby and Skegness. On a busy summer Saturday the station would be humming with hundreds of travellers changing trains to go onward to the seaside, but after the line to Spilsby closed the station had no purpose and it was closed. Not only that, it was swept away and more-or-less ploughed back into the surrounding fields.
Only a sharp bend in the route towards Skegness remains, and here is a former Strathclyde Transport-liveried Class 101 DMU approaches on the 11.16 Nottingham to Skegness service, with snow on the ground indicating just how cold it was this day.
Until 1970 Firsby station was the junction for two branchlines, those to Spilsby and Skegness. On a busy summer Saturday the station would be humming with hundreds of travellers changing trains to go onward to the seaside, but after the line to Spilsby closed the station had no purpose and it was closed. Not only that, it was swept away and more-or-less ploughed back into the surrounding fields.
Only a sharp bend in the route towards Skegness remains, and here is a former Strathclyde Transport-liveried Class 101 DMU approaches on the 11.16 Nottingham to Skegness service, with snow on the ground indicating just how cold it was this day.
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Also in: Skegness Branch, Lincolnshire
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