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This line should never have closed My great grandma lived across the road from the station during the 1954 floods The trains in the 1950 were always full in the summer The last time I traveled on it was 1960 Great local efforts were made to save it But the die was cast Shame😂

Mablethorpe station was clearly too busy to close the line. This route needs reopening right now!

Thanks for your video. Difficult to make branch lines to pay in the 60s but BR was determined to make closures and the East Lincs main line should have been retained. Now it would take serious money to reinstate it. Another political own goal. No vision for the future!

Beeching needed shooting

Thanks for this. Old railways fascinate me, today I discovered Southrey station on a walk.

A pity we don't see more of the stations. Very much taken for granted, especially when the number of staff employed at all of them,and the work they do to make passengers' journeys more enjoyable. It's mostly the station staff who have disappeared into history,for the most part,unrecognised.

I remember travelling the line from Mablethorpe south a few times in the 1960's. Its closure was hastened by timetable changes that made it harder to go from Mablethorpe elsewhere beyond Willoughby or Firsby, or by rerouting excursion trains to Skegness. I do have fond memories of the line, thanks for the video.

Mablethorpe and the surrounding areas a dead in the water now, all because of the Beeching and Serpel reports. The Lincolnshire councils of today aren't exactly proactive at getting some of these railways rebuilt. The great car economy, come and see for yourself. The county is a shadow of its former self. Skegness would be a complete waste of time if the line got ripped up to there. In Lincolnshire today, they are building useless roads that nobody wants, poorly designed with more roundabouts in the county than you can shake a stick at. The councils don't even know what a dual carriageway looks like, or what the benefits are for building one, let alone reopening lost railways. If i could before i die, i would sack every Councillor in Lincolnshire, get some proper people to work for the interests of its residents, improve the roads and reopen some of the most important railways that should never have been taken up in the first place.

I have the Sutton on Sea totem

How did we lose these stations is beyond me

Try Gainsborough's old hall far better

absolutely brill,great idea hope other beachs follow suit.frank

say what you like if enough people used the service it would have stayed open

Line closed in October 1970, not 1960.

very good memories of mablethorpe when I was young. my mum and dad used to take my brother and me in the late 60's because our auntie and uncle ' now passed away " lived on Marianne ave, he helped to build the school and then worked as a dustman. I could write lots more but sadly it would take a long time.

Our parents did not get all things right in their generation, but how to travel by train (in both Great Britain and America) was one of their shining triumphs. Let us all dispense with the automobile and demand better rail travel from those dim-wits we elect to office.

went to mablethorpe a lot in the sixties from nottm vic then nottm midland always remembered being hauled by steam

Lovely window into the past, thank you.

Great photos of a great place. Which shipwreck is this @ 1:32? It would be great to see some of these photos in the Mablethorpe Memories facebook group. facebook.com/groups/MablethorpeMemories/

Marvellous.

Great service but your not aloud to use blue lights without training and permission from the NHS

your images depict all the good that is mablethorpe,but you cant excuse the boarded up amusements and areas that haven't had a lick of paint since the early 90s,i love this place but in recent times its fallen into poverty,it needs investment,you would think with the Lincoln university bringing in large revenue they would spend more on our much loved coastline holiday resorts, I can put my hand on my heart and say 80% looks today like it did 20years ago only weathered and closed down due to dried up trade,even the iconic eagle hotel you can see from anywhere is boarded up which shows the lack of visitors to the place, I hope it picks itself back up,im sure it will one day. And what's with this motor cross beach shite,what a joke do we really need motorbikes tearing up such a lovely beach, that just shows disrespect and shows the locals have thrown in the towel here,its like they know its gone under and there making the most of what's left but if that's how they treat there beach then people aint going to want to go on it. For me mablethorpe holds a special place in my heart one of my best childhood holidays spent there with my mum dad and bro.sorry to be negative im fully aware that we are all suffering the pinch, its not easy keeping trade going if there isn't enough money pouring in,as I said I love this place dearly there's so much repair and funding needed to bring it back to what it was in the early 90s when you could stand at the approach to the beach and see sun bathers as far as the eye could see,i went few years back and the beach looked empty it gave an image of the beach on d day in Normandy the iconic structures that were laid in wait for allied landing which are Czech hedgehogs used to prevent vehicles, especially tanks, from moving. These would not have looked out of place on the beach when I last visited mablethorpe.

wow love the end with the Australian Soldiers doing their stint for the Royals. Also how Mablethorpe opened up again for business

Lets also remember that a lot of Conservative Constituencies have no railway stations or even railway tracks - like I've said before lets just shut the lot and then tarmac it and every body will be happy (just being a bit sarcastic there)

Is it possible to get this chair with battery, joystick left side and what will the total cost be to buy this?!

Your facts here are a bit wrong - Willoughby to Mablethorpe was closed in 1970, as was the whole of the East Lincolnshire Main Line - Grimsby to Boston, Peterborough and London Kings Cross.

If you were traveling from the north this made train journeys far less convenient. Many working class people from Doncaster (for example) travelled to Mablethorpe by train. A classic case of closure by stealth if ever there was. This country has been destroyed by politicians, Lib Dumb, Tory and Labour alike.

Ernest Marples had already ruined the Mablethorpe service in 1960 not 1951, by closing Louth to Mablethorpe. This then meant you had to change trains at Willoughby to reach Mablethorpe. All of this route should still be open today. This Tory Minister of Transport owned half of the shares in Marples Ridgeway, a road building company. He was asked to pay 30 years overdue taxes in 1974 and fled to his Monaco tax haven.

I Used To Live In Mablethorpe what a day for them

Welcome one and all!!

very interesting, Thanks for posting

Great video..well done....i have been coming to Mablethorpe every year since i was 5...i`m 53 now...back there again on July 14th 2012 with me kids and grand kids...cant wait.

Some amazing footage!

Just what we need in Mablethorpe, could be great fun?

the pic of Mablethorpe in the snow was just fantastic

nice to see old Mablethorpe it look better then than it doz to day lol

@Mablethorpeistops When I visit Mablethorpe its more of a pilgrimage, as I discovered "The Perishers" when I was ten whilst on holiday there (now nearly sixty) so I go looking for crabs just as "Old Boot" did in the "eye balls in the sky" cartoon. I was always a fan of Maurice Dodd the writer who is sadly no longer with us but his cartoons live on.

@zonkozonko Thanks for the kind words and Regards THE VISIONS TEAM

@Mablethorpeistops What faults I have always found Mablethorpe second to non, many other seaside resorts look shaby in comparison small is better!

What a ruddy shame this service is not still used. The work that has been lost.

Good old Mabbie. :-)

Lets also remember Labour was responsible for the road building boom of the 60's and created more than a million jobs in services and suppliers. Then along came the Tory's and changed legestion and let the building program open to private contractors, Thatcher then claimed it was all a Tory idea, the cheeky Lady even opened the M25.

Beeching was not single-handedly responsible for destroying the railways, that would have been impossible and well you know it. And yes Beeching's Report remain very controversial at the time.But you have to remember that the report was commissioned by a Conservative Government not a ("odious Labour Govement"). It's very important to get the facts right, I am glad you liked the film.

Yes i agree, closing of the East Lincolnshire mainline and Mablethorpe branch was i think a very poor decision. I think the BR board also tried to close the line between Skegness and Boston but failed! Sadly the ELR will never reopen, something that i find very sad but it's the communities which will suffer the most.

@Mablethorpeistops Thank you, it took a bit of time to make, three years of pictures but I love Mablethorpe even with all its faults. Thanks for the comments

@lasvegasrichard Thank you, it took a bit of time to make, three years of pictures but I love Mablethorpe even with all its faults. Thanks for the comments

@pitbull65 Thank you, it took a bit of time to make, three years of pictures but I love Mablethorpe even with all its faults. Thanks for the comments

Thank you, it took a bit of time to make, three years of pictures but I love Mablethorpe even with all its faults. Thanks for the comments

Thanks "so do I"

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