page_title: Bawtry to Haxey railway line
section_title: Conception
hierarchical_section_title: Bawtry to Haxey railway line / Conception
caption_attribution_description: English: System map of the Bawtry to Haxey railway line in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, England in 1913
context_page_description: The Bawtry to Haxey railway line was a line built on the border of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, opening in 1912. It was part of an earlier scheme to convey coal from a new colliery at Tickhill to Grimsby for export. After authorisation, its promoters did not proceed with construction, and when the South Yorkshire Joint Railway was built, serving Tickhill and other developing pits, that line was a better outlet for the minerals and the promoters lost interest in the Tickhill line.
  Eventually the Great Northern Railway adopted the powers and built the line, but it never carried mineral trunk hauls and became simply an insignificant agricultural siding. It closed in 1964 or 1965.
context_section_description: Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a new colliery was being developed at Tickhill, in South Yorkshire about three miles west of Bawtry. Rail access to Grimsby was critical to the commercial success of the pit, and the owners promoted the Tickhill Light Railway. This was to run from the colliery at Tickhill to a junction with the Great Northern Railway at Bawtry, on the East Coast Main Line, and from there it was to run on to a junction with the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway at Haxey. It was expected to be able to continue from there to Goole over the Axholme Joint Railway, at the time being promoted by the North Eastern Railway and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway jointly. The section from Bawtry to Haxey followed closely the route originally authorised to the Great Northern Railway in 1846, but never built by them.
  The promoters of the proposed line got a Light Railway Order dated 7 Aug 1901 for a line from Haxey to Bawtry and Tickhill. However, at this stage they did nothing towards construction, and meanwhile the Axholme Joint Railway was opened to Haxey on 3 November 1904.
  Although they did not take any steps toward construction, the impending opening of the Axholme line may have prompted the Tickhill promoters to renew their authorisation: on 22 Sept 1904 they were granted an Extension of Time Order.
caption: The Bawtry to Haxey line
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