Mablethorpe Trains 1960s (plus a great film about many old Lincs stations as well)

This first short film gives one an idea of what it might have been like for the thousands of people arriving (and leaving) to and from Mablethorpe in the fifties and sixties before the great expansion of car ownership.

Many of the passengers on this (originally a loop rejoining the main line at Louth) line would have started their journeys, not in London, often, but in The Midlands (e.g. Nottingham miners and their children) and even from Yorkshire as places like Mablethorpe and Sutton On Sea offered cheap seaside holidays (still do) for 'the masses'.

On this line was a station called Mumby Road (the nearest to the villages of Thurlby, Mumby and Huttoft). Mumby Road would have been my 'local' station (it being literally a mile or two away from Mumby and Huttoft) had I have lived in this part of rural Lincolnshire in the 1950s rather than when I came to this area six years ago [in 2012, now being 2018].

If you carefully look at the video 43 seconds in you will, using maybe the pause button, spot Mumby Road station. Certainly Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea stations are every well featured in this old film.

I didn't realise until I viewed this film that the continuation line from Mablethorpe to Louth close significantly earlier (in 1951) than the rest of the loop line which was in the 1960s.

My goodness, how beneficial would that line be today to us all! It really angers me that some Council or another allowed a road in Alford (on this line and right next to the still remaining ALFORD TOWN station buildings) to be named Beeching Way - ugh!






If you are interested (like me) in old railways or especially in those that Beeching annihilated in Lincolnshire (which before his day had probably the most extensive lines criss-crossing any rural county in Britain) then look at the following very professionally produced film which will be of interest I am sure. Regrettably, apart from Louth, Alford Town, Aby, Authorpe and Theddlethorpe which are shown (being relatively local East Lindsey coastal area old stations) the aforementioned Mumby Road is not, nor SOS, nor Mablethorpe, surprisingly. See below the film for a significant update ...





Update (added material Sept 30 - 2018):

There is a very good website that gives information on disused stations here is the home page but I suggest that you search by station name once at the website. I have included a link here to information about Mumby Road Station but I will be contacting the source material provider(s) as there are a number of errors regarding the photos and the quoted photo directions - basically many are the reverse of what is stated.

It was when I was researching using the websites above that I discovered that there was once a proposal to build a station at Huttoft and also a large dock for fish trading via the railway at Sutton on Sea!