Great Britain Postland Signal Box - 2016 / 20

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In 1879 the Great Northern and Great Eastern railways presented Parliamentary proposals to construct a line from Spalding to Lincoln, completing a 123-mile freight route between Cambridge and Doncaster. Their intention was to tap into the profitable market for coal movements into East Anglia from Yorkshire.

Overseen by a joint committee, the route brought together a number of existing lines, amongst them the GN's Spalding-March (Whitemoor Junction) connection which had opened on 1st April 1867. This served a number of isolated communities including Crowland where a station was established. It was renamed Postland in 1871.

The now occupied station looks like this

On the south side of the station was a level crossing, adjacent to which is a Great Northern Type 1 signal box dating from 1882. This evocative railway outpost still contains its original 35-lever frame. There were rumours of the box being demolished to make way for a road widening scheme but, as yet, it has evaded the bulldozers.

I visited this many years back (& had a run in with a farmer here) then stopped by again early this year. Unfortunately the higher level is inaccessible to all but the foolhardy, but I did manage to see the underworkings. Most pics were before decent camera time again so apologies for the quality.

Once underneath you are greeted by lots of industrial goodness.

Levers remaining on the higher level

Adjacent to this lays the old station masters house.

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A few hundred metres behind this remains an engine shed, now being used by local farmers

Not far down the road is Gedney station. work appears to of started here since @HughieD report here, but nothing seems to of changed in 4 yrs between my visits.
Unfortunately it looks like all they have achieved is to strip this of any interesting features

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Gedney railway station is in Lincolnshire, in the district of South Holland close to Holbeach. It was a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway network. It opened on 1 July 1862 and was on the line that connected the East Coast Ports and Holiday Destinations with the Industrial...

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Thats all from here, thanks for looking.