Boston railway station

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This article is about a railway station in England. For stations in Boston, Massachusetts, see North Station or South Station

Boston

Location

Place

Boston

Local authority

Boston

Operations

Station code

BSN

Managed by

East Midlands Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.221 million

2005/06 *

0.219 million

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Boston from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Boston railway station serves the town of Boston in Lincolnshire.

The station has declined in importance since the 1960s. In its heyday the station employed over 50 staff and had two through tracks and cover over the platform tracks. The Skegness bound platform had classic Great Northern Railway architecture buildings as well, now replaced with poor plastic shelters. The station frontage remains, albeit altered, in partially reconstructed manner, and some of the buildings have found new uses.

Boston station was once an important junction, with two lines diverging in either direction. Today, only the North-Eastbound line to Skegness, and the South-Westbound line towards Sleaford remain. There was previously a Southbound line to Spalding, that joined the line to Peterborough, and a North-Westbound line to Woodhall Junction, and thence on towards Lincoln, Horncastle, or Louth.

To the south of the station the access to Boston Docks via the swing bridge and the site of the Broadfield Lane depot remain. To the north along the old Lincoln to Boston and Horncastle route, about 2 miles north of the town is the old Hall Hills sleeper depot.

[edit] Services

West bound services run to Nottingham, and operate approximately hourly with every other train runing via Grantham. Those trains that avoid Grantham also usually do not call at many of the smaller stations and so run considerably faster, taking only 1hr15 compared to 1h40. Eastbound there is an hourly service to Skegness.