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Platform 8 went out of use & was lifted after the Lincoln-Grantham line closed in 1965. So some time in between 1965 & 1970.

Keswick-Penrith Matlock-Millers Dale Malton-Pickering Whitby-Staithes Lancaster-Morcambe (Midland Railway) Sheffield Victoria-Penistone-Hadfield Manchester Central branch Lincoln-Bardney-Woodhall Jn-Bellwater Jn Firsby-Mablethorpe Spalding-March Lincoln Avoiding Line Newark Northgate-Bottesford...

I didn't realise that Network Rail were doing a study to re-instate Firsby to Louth with a connection to Mablethorpe. There doesn't seem to be any information about this in the public domain.

I don't think West Burton is operational at the moment as I am in Lincoln & can see it across the valley. It doesn't actually look to be generating at the moment.I assume it's just on stand by.With the price of gas shooting up it may soon be cheaper to burn imported coal !

Ratcliffe has 5/6 paths a day from Immingham at the moment of which up to 4 normally run. I don't think West Burton is on line at the moment .It doesn't seem to have had any coal paths activated lately. Drax I'm not sure about as it's not local to me.

The Falklands had a railway. A picture of a derelict engine appeared in various magazines a few years ago.

Sierra Leone ?

I believe it was London tram 1858 that's now at the East Anglian Transport Museum at Carlton Colville.

There is also a Cavan & Leitrim 4-4-0T in the USA as well.

All trains from and to Tralee either have to reverse into or out of Killarney as it's a treminus on a through route.

A pair of class 67's worked a coal train from Imminghan to either Cottam or West burton (I forget which) a few years ago.

Hythe ,Kent 14520 population 2011.The mainline station closed in 1951 but the RHDR station is still there since 1927.

I remember going round Carnforth shed in August 1968 & seeing a row of withdrawn class 28's. Meanwhile Stanier Black 5 's were still in use !

Park Drain on the GN/GE Joint line. The only building anywhere near it was the Park Drain Hotel.

I think it was a J39 0-6-0.

Thank you.The map makes it much clearer. I was also on that school charter from Lincoln to Liverpool Street.

Lincoln avoiding line (Known as the 'The High Line' locally) closed 1983.

According to real train times freight trains are still running.

Until fairly recently coal trains form the Barrow Hill direction used the platform to run round before heading to Cottam or West Burton power stations.I don't think there has been coal in that direction for a couple of years. From memory Ithink it was mainly Freightliner hailed coal trains that...

There's a triangle at Lincoln which has also been used to turn steam locos as well.