A Disused East Lincolnshire Railway Walk from Louth - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2022
- In this video we take a walk down the disused East Lincolnshire Railway. Also known as a the Great Northern Railway between Louth and Grimsby.
The now lost railway line was opened in 1848 and closed in 1970 to passengers. Although freight trains lasted until 1980 to access the Maltings in Louth. Some of the railway is still in user as part of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.
We’ll be starting our explore in Louth and working our way to Grimsby, around 14 miles north.
There were several intermediate stations along the route at Ludborough, North Thorseby, Holton-le-clay and Waltham and in 1905 a number of halts - smaller stations with less facilities - were opened a few of which we’ll see today - Fotherby Halt and Utterby Halt.
We will see abandoned relics and evidence of the railway including crossing gates, signal posts, stations, signal boxes and other installations such as fogmans huts and platelayers huts.
Louth was once an important junction, with former lines going off in several directions. The area around the station included many sidings, a turntable, goods sheds, signal boxes and the old malthouse. The main station building itself is Grade II listed and as we’ve just been seeing remains intact.
The two sides of the station were spanned with a roof, but this was taken down in the 1960s.
The station closed in 1970 when passenger services stopped.
After seeing the disused stations in the villages of Fotherby, and Utterby, we finish in Holton-Le-Clay with it's old station building, crossing gates, signal and remains of cattle docks.
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Great video. Bought back lot of memories. Sad tho when the trains stopped 😢
You can’t beat a old railway walk. Some great stuff still down there 👍
A great walk. Lovely setting too when the sun is out.
The signal boxes look just like the ones on March to Spalding line. Louth looks just like Maldon East. Leicester FC has Dutch gabling, too.Gorgeous.
I do love a well kept signal box :)
@@WobblyRunner check out the 1930s beauty at Murrow West
That was a fantastic day out, thanks so much for making the trip over. I've done a further recce' for part two and found some more stuff!!! So as soon as you are ready it'll be game on!!!!
Great stuff. We'll get a date agreed once we get xms out the way :)
@@WobblyRunner Sure will👍.
A nice tour today. Thanks, and happy holidays to all! ❤😊
Thank You and Happy Holidays!!!
Great video mate, good to see progress by the Wolds railway, there’s still a few relics left.
All pretty interesting stuff, thanks.
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Looking forward to going back this year to see how they're getting on.
@@WobblyRunner Yes that would be good to see more progress, I hadn’t realised they intended to get a rail service back to Louth in the future, it’s a grand building there, visited it myself in 2018, I was with a biking mate as well, had a good run in the Lincolnshire Wolds.
👍 some nice roads around there isn't there. We go to cadwell every year.
It's a shame they won't be able to reuse the station building
@@WobblyRunner Yes, they are nice biking roads, and yes unfortunately the railway won’t be able to reuse the original Louth station.
Super video really enjpy all you do
Thank you so much Alan 😊
Another good video mate! we did withcall n benniworth a few months back not too far from where u were
Cheers!!
Ah yes, hopefully have a nosey at those in the not too distant future.
We still have part of the old railway station platform and brickwork for the old turntable at Mablethorpe…..Legbourne worth paying a visit old railway station use to be a railway museum which unfortunately closed….but some of the railway bits are still there….the small signal box on the platform came from the old crossing at Sutton on Sea….Theddlethorpe station house is still there with a good section of platform….loads of old railway about if you know where to look
Cheers Michael. Plenty to consider there for future visits to Lincolnshire.
looks like they are going to extend the wolds railway if they have cleared this bed & every level crossing they didnt remove the rails they are still down ready to be relayed
Seems a fair way off yet Jason. That first little section as far as Utterby looks like it's progressing, but a lot of work needed to make it onto the next section to Louth. Just rails left on the one level crossing, but I suspect it will need completely starting again. Be interesting to see how it progresses.
Another really interesting video Paul, l didn't realise that preserved railway was cracking on last time I saw it was just the station itself
That line that went west from louth to Bardney had a couple of tunnels not sure if they are still accessible but I walked through one a few years back
Cheers Russ
Cheers Russ 👍👍. Plenty more to explore around there
Great to see a visit into my home county Lincolnshire. From Louth can you walk all the way in one straight go until that extension of the heritage line?
Hi Ben. Yes pretty much all the way. Some bits are easier than others and we had to take a very minor detour around a house in Fotherby, but other than that a straight walk.
@@WobblyRunner i shall have to take a walk along there sometime with my camera. It's not that far from the Louth Canal which ended a bit south of Grimsby
Great work guys! I wonder how many other treasures Lincolnshire holds?! Watching this on my return journey from walking the Middlewood Way. Fitting end to a great day!
Fantastic!!!!
Middlewood Way. That's an old railway too isnt it?
@@WobblyRunner Aye….it runs from Rose Hill Marple to Macclesfield and features the lovely Bollington Viaduct and a well preserved couple of platforms at Higher Poynton. Bushwhacked now though 🙃
@Psychic Spies stop giving Jon!!!!!!!
Holton le clay. its a 'tallboy bomb. (Empty of explosives}
£18 for full membership for the Woulds railway….3 free rides per year….can’t be bad
That is great value to be fair!!!!