Just found this excellent web page about Mablethorpe Railway Station
www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/mablethorpe/index.shtml
At the bottom of the page is a link to a second page that is an awesome gallery of historical photographs.
Enjoy. I know I did.

Ian

Cheers - will send that round the family network!

Will look this up and also pass the info. on

Thanks,

Pam B.

A couple of memories came bouncing back through the electronic ether!

My uncle wrote: "The link is brilliant. I was 14 when the line closed and went along to see the last train. I remember one of the symbolic coffins being loaded on board."

And my mother wrote: "...many memories invoked by these photos. The buildings and platforms shown are just as I remembered them. In those days we even had a W H Smith under that canopy"

A WH Smith!!!!! What would I have given for a WH Smith when I was a teenager trying to find obscure music magazines and comics....

staticgirl wrote:
A couple of memories came bouncing back through the electronic ether!

My uncle wrote: "The link is brilliant. I was 14 when the line closed and went along to see the last train. I remember one of the symbolic coffins being loaded on board."

And my mother wrote: "...many memories invoked by these photos. The buildings and platforms shown are just as I remembered them. In those days we even had a W H Smith under that canopy"

A WH Smith!!!!! What would I have given for a WH Smith when I was a teenager trying to find obscure music magazines and comics....

Nice to know the things I find provoke memories
Brilliant. Thanks for letting us know
Looking back I find it hard to believe that there was a WHS In town
Ian

Actually, having thought about it a bit more I'm sure I can remember Dad going down to the railway station on a Saturday night to pick up the evening edition of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.

It is amazing that MABLETHORPE ever had a Railway Station, I wish we had lived here then, as we moved here 11 years ago. It must have been fantastic. I used to live in a village in Staffordshire called Cheddleton, near a town called Leek. We had a lovely little station there which is now a Steam Train Museum and we used to go for rides on the trains and have a snack at the tea room.
I have always loved trains since I was young . My mum was from Austria and in the days before package holidays, we used to spend a month a year in Austria . We had to catch a train from Stoke-on-Trent to London, then a train to Dover. We travelled on the Ferry to Calais or Ostend and then caught an overnight train from France or Belgium, through Germany and straight through to Villach, Austria. It was such an adventure being on the final traiin for around 17 hours.
Although this is nothing to do with Mablethorpe, those of you who also have a fondness for trains, will know how memorable it was. Even in those days, the late 50s, the Train Stations abroad were so clean and tidy compared to most of ours in this Country.

Pam:
I have a picture in one of my old railway history books that shows the line of people queuing to get on a train on a Summer Saturday that stretches beyond Waterloo and Wellington Road...
Seeing a picture like that, its easy to believe that in 1936 over 160,000 people came into Mablethorpe by train.
Ian

My mum regularly used to go to London via the Mablethorpe Train for day trips and short stays. Can you imagine the inhabitants of Mabo doing that so much now?