Market Rasen  | |||||
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 Market Rasen railway station in 2003 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Market Rasen,West Lindsey England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°23′02″N0°20′13″W / 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 | |||||
| 2019/20 |  69,008 | ||||
| 2020/21 | 14,846 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  51,298 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 55,980 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 57,826 | ||||
Listed Building – Grade II | |||||
| Feature | Railway Station | ||||
| Designated | 16 May 1984 | ||||
| Reference no. | 1359780[1] | ||||
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Market Rasen railway station serves the market town ofMarket Rasen inLincolnshire,England.
It was built by theGreat 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 aW. H. Smith bookstall. The station buildings areGrade 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 theBeeching Axe in 1965). The signal box which was at the south end of the Lincoln platform was removed toGreat Central Railway (heritage railway) at Quorn and re-erected in 1987.
Nowadays it is on the"Grimsby - Lincoln - Newark" line and is managed byEast Midlands Railway.
All services at Market Rasen are operated byEast Midlands Railway.
The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction betweenGrimsby Town andLeicester viaLincoln andNottingham. A number of late evening services continue beyond Grimsby Town to and fromCleethorpes.[3]
On Sundays, the station is served by three trains per day in each direction between Cleethorpes and Nottingham during the summer months only. No services call at the station on Sundays during the winter months.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Lincoln | East Midlands Railway | Barnetby | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Great Central Railway | ||||
