page_title: Counter Drain railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Counter Drain railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Site of Counter Drain Station. View NE, over crossing with station formerly on right, now perhaps a private house: Bourne left, Spalding right; ex-Midland &amp; Great Northern, (Saxby) - Bourne - Spalding line. Passenger services here ceased (with most of the rest of the M&amp;GN) on 2/3/59, but goods continued until 5/4/65. (See also TF1720&#160;: Eastward over former Railway Bridge over dyke at Counter Drain and the identical present-day scene taken quite coincidentally by Andrew Tatlow in 2010 TF1720&#160;: Site of Counter Drain station 2010).
context_page_description: Counter Drain railway station was a remote station in Lincolnshire serving the village of Tongue End. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway, later part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which ran across East Anglia to the Norfolk Coast. The station opened with the line on 1 August 1866, closed temporarily between 9 October 1880 and 1 February 1881, and closed permanently on 2 March 1959, although the line remained opened for goods until 1964. The three intermediate stations between Spalding and Bourne had unusual names, because there were few nearby settlements; "Counter Drain" was the name of a drainage ditch close to the station.
context_section_description: Counter Drain railway station was a remote station in Lincolnshire serving the village of Tongue End. It was on the route of the Spalding and Bourne Railway (opened 1866), later part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway which ran across East Anglia to the Norfolk Coast. The station opened with the line on 1 August 1866, closed temporarily between 9 October 1880 and 1 February 1881, and closed permanently on 2 March 1959, although the line remained opened for goods until 1964. The three intermediate stations between Spalding and Bourne had unusual names, because there were few nearby settlements; "Counter Drain" was the name of a drainage ditch close to the station.
caption: Site of former station
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