SINCE moving to Mortons in November 2010, The Railway Magazine’s home has been the pleasant Lincolnshire market town of Horncastle, whose one and only railway was the 7½-mile branch to Kirkstead (later renamed Woodhall Junction) on the Great Northern Railway’s Lincolnshire Loop line. It closed to passengers on September 13, 1954 and to goods traffic on April 5, 1971.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the railway’s demise, the town’s History and Heritage Society organised a special exhibition, written and researched by Chris Bates with important contributions by Ian Marshman, but the springtime Covid-19 restrictions meant a virtual exhibition was posted online instead.