Firsby Station Resiting?

[Chrius56000]

. . . Prior to the closure of Firsby Station on the Boston–Grimsby line on 5 October 1970, was any consideration given by to resiting it onto the Skegness route via Thorpe Culvert, Wainfleet and Havenhouse, or moving it south of the Firsby triangle, or didn't B.R. consider the usage of Firsby enough to warrant this?

. . .From the captions to the pictures of Firsby in the "Disused Stations" website, certainly many trains to and from Skegness and further afield both started and terminated here, presumably the "New Line" trains did!

. . .Certainly the text on the "Disused Stations" site for Firsby suggests this was another important junction that warranted staff and facilities far in excess of what the local population of 150-200 would have supported – according to Wikipedia, it had enough facilities at its peak such as you might expect at somewhere like Lancaster or Blackburn!

 

[Magdalia]

Prior to the closure of Firsby Station on the Boston–Grimsby line on 5 October 1970, was any consideration given by to resiting it onto the Skegness route via Thorpe Culvert, Wainfleet and Havenhouse, or moving it south of the Firsby triangle, or didn't B.R. consider the usage of Firsby enough to warrant this?

facilities far in excess of what the local population of 150-200 would have supported

I think that you have answered your own question.

Firsby was for changing trains between the East Lincs line and the Skegness branch, not for local traffic. One that had gone there was no justification for retaining it.

It is also worth bearing in mind that Thorpe Culvert is only 2¼ miles from Firsby.

 

[Gloster]

BR was in its darkest days and there was little money for investment: what there was went to main lines with a future (the Board hoped). Building a new station on a line that had been earmarked for closure in the Beeching Report in order to serve a handful of scattered hamlets would have been seen as a ridiculous waste of money that was in short supply. Much of its purpose and revenue would have been related to changing trains, while the revenue produced by its catchment area would have been minimal: if people were no longer using Firsby to change trains, revenue would have dropped to a trickle.

 

[Pyewipecarshed]

As @Gloster says the whole Skegness line was earmarked for closure, therefore no consideration would have been given to resiting the station.