Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Algarkirk and Sutterton


caption =
locale = England
borough = Lincolnshire
line = Great Northern Railway
owner = London and North Eastern Railway
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platforms = ?
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years = 17 October 1848
events = Station opens as Sutterton, Swineshead and Donnington
years1 = September 1850
events1 = Station renamed Algarkirk and Sutterton
years2 = 11 September 1961
events2 = Station closes

Algarkirk and Sutterton railway station was a station which served the villages of Algarkirk and Sutterton in the English county of Lincolnshire. It was served by trains on the line from Boston to Spalding.

History

Opened by the Great Northern Railway it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Eastern Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by the British Transport Commission.

The site today

The trackbed has been built over by road construction. The station building and goods shed stand next to the roundabout where the A16 and A17 roads meet. [http://www.leytr.co.uk/spalding_60.htm]

References

*cite book|author=R.V.J.Butt, |title= The Directory of Railway Stations |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd
year=1995 ISBN 1 85260 508 1

*cite book|author=A. Jowett, |title= Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas |publisher=Atlantic Publishing |year=2000 ISBN 0 906899 99 0