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Tweets from a recent #Lincolnshire Day Ranger rail ticket to cover what remains of the railways there. The railway network in the county was severely depleted by the closures of October 1970 but passenger services to the east coast @ #Skegness & #Cleethorpes remain. 1/15

Starting at #Skegness, the station concourse features a statue of 'Skegness Sam', famous from the 'Skegness is so Bracing' old Great Northern Railway poster. Old style semaphore signals still exist & the line from #Nottingham in now known as 'Poacher Line'. 2/15

Skegness-Grantham: Top left c/w leaving #Skegness the train passed the scorched, flat agricultural lands of #Lincolnshire & through market towns of #Boston, with it landmark church (Boston Stump) & #Sleaford with its magnificent set of disused malthouses once owned by Bass. 3/15

Grantham is located on @LNER main line, a commuter town for #London In times past it was a popular trainspotting haunt, the houses (top right) were the site of #Grantham loco sheds which closed in 1964. The town is home to @WoodlandTrust with no mention of a certain statue! 4/15

Peterborough-Lincoln via #Spalding the back line linking Peterborough & #Doncaster. Now a busy line for container freight trains, the top section formerly saw much coal traffic between #Clipstone sidings & #March marshalling yards. The cathedral dominates arrival at Lincoln. 6/15

Lincoln Station, formerly the Great Northern's station until it became the city's main & only station following the closure of #Lincoln St Marks in 1985. The Victorian architecture would grace @MrTimDunn TV programme. A lovely set of murals adorns the long closed Platform 8. 7/15

Snap Time & a coffee at #Lincoln! Its off to the Cornhill Quarter part of the city just over the road from the railway station. 8/15

Lincoln-Grimsby: Top left c/w Train from Lincoln Central, then passing the slightly hilly part of #Lincolnshire known as 'The Wolds', through the horse racing town of Market Rasen with a lovely mural on the station wall & through #Barnetby Junction where 3 lines meet. 9/15

Grimsby Town Station: First opened in 1848 but now much reduced from its hey-day when many fish trains from the nearby #Grimsby Docks passed through. The line here connects to Cleethorpes although timetable connections didn't permit a visit. 10/15

Grimsby-Lincoln & the view from the #Humber side of the train is dominated by industry in & around #Immingham Port. Immingham Port was originally developed by the Great Central Railway to export coal. Melton Ross Limeworks provides limestone for Scunthorpes steelmaking.11/15

Back at Lincoln for the #Sleaford train which was waiting in the bay platform as we arrived. A train of empty tankers passed through no doubt heading for the oil refinery on the Humber which we had previously passed. 12/15

Lincoln to Sleaford through the rural #Lincolnshire countryside during the hot & dry conditions of the summer of 2022. Left c/w - #Metheringham Station, typical later summer Lincolnshire countryside & #Sleaford station, on a the few remaining railway hubs in the county. 13/15

Sleaford back to Skegness, the last leg of the #Lincolnshire day ranger. Top left c/w Skegness train arrives at #Sleaford, Sleaford East Junction, #Heckington eight sail windmill & crossing of the River Witham at #Boston. 14/15

Arrival back at #Skegness (Skegvegas!) after my #Lincolnshire Day rail rover day out. The blue plaque at the station is to John Hassall who designed the iconic 'Skegness is so Bracing' railway poster, one of the most famous British railway holiday posters. 15/15