Alford Town railway station
- Alford Town railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Alford Town
caption =
locale = England
borough = Lincolnshire
line = East Lincolnshire Railway
owner = London and North Eastern Railway
latitude =
longitude =
platforms = ?
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 3 September 1848
events = Station opens as Alford
years1 = 1 July 1923
events1 = Station renamed Alford Town
years2 = 5 October 1970
events2 = Station closes
"This article is about the Lincolnshire railway station. For the similarly named station in Scotland, see Alford".
Alford Town railway station was a station which served Alford in the English county of Lincolnshire. It was served by trains on the line from Boston to Grimsby via Louth.
History
Opened by the East Lincolnshire Railway it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on th the Eastern Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.
The station was briefly served by a tramway to Sutton on Sea. [http://www.alford.info/town/tram.htm]
The site today
The trackbed is partly the driveway to a new house next to the site of a former level crossing [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.enefer/lincs/alford.htm]
References
*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1
*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0
*British Railways Atlas . [British Railways Atlas.1947. p.17] [ [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.enefer/elincs/elincs4.htm elincs4 ] ]
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