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I have been unable to find any information on a station or branch line with this name. Unless anyone can find positive evidence of this then I recommend you delete all reference.[[
Steamybrian2 (
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14:44, 15 February 2011 (UTC)]]reply
It's marked as a closed station in
British Railway Atlas 1955. Shepperton:
Ian Allan. 2000. p. 16, section D1.
ISBN0 7110 2726 9. 0011/C2. {{
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intermediate between the branch terminus at Sproxton and the junction station
Great Ponton, which is between Stoke Tunnel and Grantham (the junction with the ECML faces Grantham). It's shown similarly in
although the junction station is now omitted. However,
Sectional Maps of British Railways. Shepperton:
Ian Allan. 1967. p. 16, sections D1-D2.
shows the branch differently - it splits, with the route to the west going to Sproxton, and that to the south goes to Stainby, where it terminates. Again the junction station is omitted, although the junction is named as "High Dyke Jcn.".
The Ordnance Survey One-inch map for the area (6th edition, sheet 122, published 1947) shows the branch as splitting several times, although no stations are marked on it. Written alongside the route is "L.& N.E.R. (Stainby & High Dyke Br.)" toward the eastern end, and "L.& N.E.R. (Skillington Road Junction & Stainby)" near the middle. Most importantly, it connects to both the LNER as noted above, and also to the LMS (ex-Midland Rly) route between
Saxby and
Bourne, about a mile to the west of
South Witham (the junction faces South Witham). Key points include: Great Ponsford station SK933303; High Dyke Junc SK939293; Junction near Colsterworth SK927248; branch terminus near Colsterworth SK926245; Skillington Road Junction SK902242; branch terminus near Sproxton SK877251; connection to the LMS SK908187. Stainby village is at SK907228; Sproxton village is at SK856244. --
Redrose64 (
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17:20, 15 February 2011 (UTC)reply
Careful examination of old large-scale maps shows several sidings serving ironstone quarries around Stainby, centered on the bridge at SK903228. Similar maps suggest that the Sproxton terminus may have been at SK856251. --
Redrose64 (
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17:40, 15 February 2011 (UTC)reply
The location given is certainly on one of the ironstone lines, and there is a bridge taking the road over the route of a line that joins with the quarries at South Witham. I remember seeing these metals in use by an 0-4-0 saddle tank and a small diesel in the 1960s, with a flagman where it crossed the road west of South Witham. I am more in doubt of a passenger link to Great Ponton, and it cannot have surely been the Great Eastern, for this is GN or M&GN territory. And the GE did not survive until Nationalisation. I have never heard of passenger workings over the High Dyke branch.
This Page is fascinating but unhelpful in either regard. I have spoken to committee members at the Rutland railway museum, and none believed in passenger workings to Stainby. Nor does the fairly definitive Pastscape site list such a station. Even the photographer at
the overbridge and
the location on Geograph dismisses the 'station' as a siding.
Oh, I'm in full agreement that it cannot have been GER: if you look at the edit history, you'll see that it was me who slapped the {{
citation needed|date=January 2011}} on the statement "It was owned by the
Great Eastern Railway until nationalisation." - my intention was that whoever originally wrote that should be given a chance to prove it, although I was (and still am) personally 100% sure that the statement was false.
The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands, Part Eight South Lincolnshire, Eric Tonks MSc, FRIC, Dip.Maths 1991 ISBN 978-1-907094-07-1, pages 17, 22, 25, 28, 37, 66, 67, 69 all make reference to Stainby station. It was on a branch from Skillington Junction on the GNR High Dyke branch, 52.79443871028668, -0.6624683347025117
AsparagusTips (
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14:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)reply
The only ref given is "British Railways Atlas.1947. p.16". I have now purchased a copy of what I think is the same book, mine is published by Ian Allan (reprinted 2011)
ISBN978-0-7110-3643-7 and on the page indicated, in section E1, I find that Stainby is not shown as a blue dot (which it would be if it were a passenger station) but is shown as a black line, i.e. a freight facility - presumably related to the ironstone workings mentioned above. --
Redrose64 (
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17:30, 15 April 2011 (UTC)reply
I think it is time to get this nonsense deleted. The ironstone railway was built in recent memory, and I can find no evidence it was ever anything but that.--
Robert EA Harvey (
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08:14, 24 August 2013 (UTC)reply