Despite the overgrown platform, the broken windows and the peeling

paintwork Brocklesby station was still open and served by trains even if the service pattern was not particularly favourable to passengers. Looking back now this was clearly part of BR's deliberate and orchestrated strategy to run down passenger numbers thus creating their case to close it. Closure came on 03.10.93 leaving Ulceby station to the north of the North Lincolnshire triangle and Habrough to the east. To be fair to BR passenger numbers were never particularly strong as the station was located in a rather isolated position some three miles from the village of Brocklesby itself. Allegedly, the station was constructed at the behest of the Earl of Yarborough who also just happened to be the chairman of the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway who also had his own waiting room within the building. The grand station building, built in the familiar Tudor Gothic style used widely throughout the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway network was designed by the architects Weightman and Hadfield.