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The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway (LWR) is a heritage railway based at Ludborough station, near Louth, Lincolnshire, England and the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire open to the public. [1]
Ludborough is a heritage railway station in Ludborough, Lincolnshire, England, which is the base of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway.The station, which was previously part of the East Lincolnshire Railway, [2] closed in 1961 to passengers and 1964 to freight, but was taken over by the preservation society in 1984.
The Lincolnshire Wolds which also includes the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape are a range of low hills in the county of Lincolnshire, England which runs roughly parallel with the North Sea coast, from the Humber Estuary just west of the town of Barton-upon-Humber in North Lincolnshire down in a south easterly direction towards the flat Lincolnshire Fens in the south-east of the county ...
Tracklaying by the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway reached North Thoresby in 2008 and the first train for 47 years between the two stations ran on 26 August 2009. [15] [16] The south (up) platform has been restored and a waiting shelter erected. [8] The level crossing to the north has been tarmaced over, but the north crossing gate has survived. [8]
All of the station site has been built on by residential and commercial outlets. There are plans to have Louth as the southern terminus of the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway using the trackbed from Holton-Le-Clay, although the station will be north of Louth because the existing station building is occupied and the site around it built over. This ...
Wolds Top, also known as Normanby Hill, [2] is the highest point of the Lincolnshire Wolds.The summit elevation is 168 m (551 ft). [1] It lies just under a mile to the north of the village of Normanby le Wold and three miles to the south of the small market town of Caistor in Lincolnshire.
The line was opened in 1848 as the East Lincolnshire Railway which served the towns of Grimsby, Louth and Boston.. It was opened to passengers the same year with stations at Ludborough, North Thoresby and Waltham while there was various halts along the Grimsby-Louth section which opened during the railmotor era of the line but all these closed in the 1930s/60s.
The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway had intended on opening a station at Waltham. However, as developers have built over the track bed to the south at Holton-le-Clay and at Waltham itself, it is now impossible to re-lay the track as far as Waltham. [ 21 ]