- Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Algarkirk and Sutterton
caption =
locale =England
borough =Lincolnshire
line =Great Northern Railway
owner =London and North Eastern Railway
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longitude =
platforms = ?
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years =17 October 1848
events = Station opens as Sutterton, Swineshead and Donnington
years1 =September 1850
events1 = Station renamed Algarkirk and Sutterton
years2 =11 September 1961
events2 = Station closesAlgarkirk and Sutterton railway station was a station which served the villages of
Algarkirk andSutterton in the English county ofLincolnshire . It was served by trains on the line from Boston to Spalding.History
Opened by the
Great Northern Railway it became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to theEastern Region of British Railways during thenationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by theBritish Transport Commission .The site today
The trackbed has been built over by road construction. The station building and goods shed stand next to the roundabout where the A16 and A17 roads meet. [http://www.leytr.co.uk/spalding_60.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
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