Ancaster railway station


Ancaster railway station serves the village of Ancaster, in Lincolnshire, England. The station lies north of Grantham on the Nottingham to Skegness Line.
The station is now owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway, which provides all rail services.
There is a working signal box at the west end of the station, but the station itself is unstaffed and offers limited facilities other than two shelters, bicycle storage, timetables and modern help points. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train, as there are no retail facilities or ticket machines at this station.

History

Opened by the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway, then run by the Great Northern Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

Services

East Midlands Railway operates four services per day in each direction between and. A normal service operates on most bank holidays, but there is no Sunday service.