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Article: Ticket to ride for steam enthusiasts ; Step back in time by making a visit to a Lincolnshire railway which recreates train travel as it was more than half-a-century ago.
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- Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
- Article date:
- February 21, 2008
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Step back in time by making a visit to a Lincolnshire railway
which recreates train travel as it was more than half-a-century ago.
The Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, based at Ludborough, south of
Grimsby, is the only standard gauge steam railway in Lincolnshire
open to the public, and will be open again on Sunday.
The East Lincolnshire Railway ran between Boston and Grimsby, via
Firsby, Willoughby and Louth, opening in 1848.
Sadly, the Louth to Grimsby section of the line closed in 1980.
But enthusiasts are returning part of it to its former glory and
extending the track steadily towards North Thoresby, where the
station is to be recreated.
Well worth a day out, the railway is situated eight ...