Mablethorpe Trains 1960s
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2009
- The Louth to Mablethorpe Railway, was built by farmers and tradesmen was opened on October 16th 1877. It ran at a loss and was sold out to the Great Northern in 1889. A year earlier, the branch line from Willoughby was built, but came only to Sutton and was not extended to Mablethorpe until around 1892. About the turn of the century, the Railway Company wished to build a large hotel, whore the Midland Bank now stands, but so great was the opposition from the existing hotels and boarding houses that the scheme was abandoned.
The line still ran at a loss and after this set-back to their plans, the Company practically ignored Mablethorpe. Before the Sutton-Willoughby branch was extended to Mablethorpe, the late Mr. Ben Simon Sithen of the Bacchus Hotel Sutton on Sea, operated a kind of Wells Fargo coach service between Sutton and Mablethorpe and for some reason, the Mablethorpe Stationmaster used to ride with him. The first Mablethorpe Stationmaster was Mr. John Watson and the last, Mr. D. Oxby. The yard at Mablethorpe had its own engine and crew and apart from excursions, there were seven trains each way, with an additional long goods train. The line finally closed in December 1960 and within a few days the tracks in the station were torn up.
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.
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.
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.
the facts are labour closed all these lines. hundreds of miles more then beechings recommendations
Lovely window into the past, thank you.
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.
How did we lose these stations is beyond me
beeching report & british rail not wanting to run services on that line
Some amazing footage!
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!
Marvellous.
Thanks for this. Old railways fascinate me, today I discovered Southrey station on a walk.
What a ruddy shame this service is not still used. The work that has been lost.
keithfrmcov no one wants to go to mabo at the best of times. I’m glad this craps gone
at least Skegness is still open, could have been worse.
bit of a problem now as a majority of the beds been destroyed in the name of progress louth no longer has any accessable areas for the lines to go along as the original station is owned by NHS & any trackbed leading to it has been built on, infilled & turned ito short footpaths even the bed around manby has been built on & also the nearest the bed can get to mablethorpe is rear of golden sands holiday park yet the bridges & crossings are very much still there minus the barriers so are some of the stations now private residences
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.
deliberately withdrew service to the point where there were no trains then closed & ripped up the line if none of this happened life would be so easy for everyone getting a train to the coast from any town that had a line thru it
That's how Politicians work and why hierarchical organisations without checks and accountability attract Narcissist criminals. Whatever flag they wave they seek to steal
went to mablethorpe a lot in the sixties from nottm vic then nottm midland always remembered being hauled by steam
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.
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.
But then they say that a country gets the government it deserves !
What a dumb comment! Your not very bright are you......
Mablethorpe station was clearly too busy to close the line. This route needs reopening right now!
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😂
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.
I have the Sutton on Sea totem
Lucky sod
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.
Yes, very short sighted.
Wilful destruction under the guise of money and power. If the working class needs it and enjoys it you can bet it - whatever *it* is - will be removed from our grasp.
Line closed in October 1970, not 1960.
only thing left of the mablethorpe station is the turntable & the bed both ways has been built on only louth side still has all the bridges in place & some original stations between the 2 locations Sutton almost all the beds been destroyed by housing & holiday caravan parks
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.
the louth mablethorpe section closed in 1960 the south section closed on 4th october 1970
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)
? it was labour that closed the railways. Beeching only made recommendations.The labour in power at the time closed a lot of his rec. and closed a lot more ( hundreds of miles ) on top of that lot!!...........thanks you labour
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.
say what you like if enough people used the service it would have stayed open