page_title: Bourne and Sleaford Railway
section_title: Opening
hierarchical_section_title: Bourne and Sleaford Railway / Opening
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Aswarby &amp; Scredington station, 1992. View northward, towards Sleaford: ex-GNR Bourne - Sleaford branch. The station and line closed to passenger services from 22/9/30, but not to goods until 6/7/56. This is a well-preserved station.
context_page_description: The Bourne and Sleaford Railway was promoted as a branch of the Great Northern Railway to fend off an expected incursion by the rival Great Eastern Railway. It was authorised by Parliament in 1865, but not opened until 1871 and 1872. Although agricultural traffic provided healthy business, the rural character of the line never produced much passenger trade, and it was closed to passengers in 1930. The line was severed and ceased to be a through line in 1956 and closed completely in 1965.
context_section_description: Goods trains, worked by the contractor's engines, began operating between Sleaford and Billingborough on 10 October 1871 and the line was opened throughout on 2 January 1872. There were six passenger trains each way on weekdays only (one of these on Mondays only) and a daily goods train worked from Grantham to Bourn and back. The journey time for passenger trains on the branch was fifty minutes. Scredington was renamed Aswarby & Scredington on 1 February 1875 and the spelling of "Bourn" station was altered to "Bourne" in the May 1872 timetable.
  Complaints were immediately made about timing because the first train from Sleaford did not make a useful onward connection.
caption: Aswarby & Scredington former station
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