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Great Ponton railway station
Great
Ponton railway station
was a station on the
East Coast Main Line
at
Great Ponton
,
Lincolnshire, England
.
The Great Northern Railway
opened it in 1853 and
British Railways
closed it in 1958.
The station
was demolished soon after
closure
.
The
Park Gate Iron and Steel Company
had an
ironstone
quarry east of
Sproxton, Leicestershire
. A
mineral railway
linked it with the
East Coast
Main Line
at a junction just under south of Great
Ponton station
. A 1917
Manning Wardle
steam locomotive
that worked the line is preserved on the
Kent and East Sussex Railway
.