Market_Rasen_railway_station
Market Rasen railway station
Railway station in Lincolnshire, England
Market Rasen railway station serves the market town of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, England.
Market Rasen  | |
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Market Rasen railway station in 2003 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Market Rasen, West Lindsey England |
| Coordinates | 53.384°N 0.337°W / 53.384; -0.337 |
| Grid reference | TF107887 |
| Managed by | East Midlands Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | MKR |
| Classification | DfT category F1 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  69,840 |
| 2019/20 |  69,008 |
| 2020/21 | 14,846 |
| 2021/22 | 51,298 |
| 2022/23 | 55,980 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Feature | Railway Station |
| Designated | 16 May 1984 |
| Reference no. | 1359780[1] |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
It was built by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, with the opening of the line, in 1848.[2] The station was a substantial structure with an overall roof below which all the usual station facilities could be found including a W. H. Smith bookstall. The station buildings are Grade II listed.[1]
It is the only station now between Lincoln and Barnetby, but in the past there were many more (these mainly succumbed to the Beeching Axe in 1965). The signal box which was at the south end of the Lincoln platform was removed to Great Central Railway (heritage railway) at Quorn and re-erected in 1987.
Nowadays it is on the "Grimsby - Lincoln - Newark" line and is managed by East Midlands Railway.
All services at Market Rasen are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 158 and 170 DMUs.[3]
As of May 2021, the typical off-peak service is one train every two hours between Grimsby Town and Leicester via Lincoln and Nottingham. There is also one train per day that continues to and from Cleethorpes, increasing to three trains per day on a Saturday.[4][5]
On Sundays, there is a limited summer service of three trains per day between Nottingham and Cleethorpes with no service during the winter months.
| Preceding station |  National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| East Midlands Railway | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Great Central Railway | ||||
- Historic England, "Railway Station (1359780)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 3 March 2017
- Cobb, M H (2003). Railway Atlas of Great Britain. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 364. ISBN 0711030030.
- "EMR Regional Fleet". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
Our Regional fleet is made up of 170s and 158s.
- Table 27 National Rail timetable, May 2021
- "May 2021 Timetable Changes: Market Rasen". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
- Train times and station information for Market Rasen railway station from National Rail