Railway Station, Barnetby

Image: © Dave Hitchborne Taken: 13 Aug 1987

British Railways Class 110 'Calder Valley' set 51847/51828, on the Sheffield to Cleethorpes, as it slows for the Lincolnshire village station of Barnetby. Built in 1961 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd., in conjunction with the Drewry Car Co. Ltd. Pre-Beeching : A Lincolnshire experience I once had a dream that I rode on a train From Mareham-le-Fen up to Kirkby on Bain, Then Tumby and Coningsby, not very far, To Tattershall, Kirkstead and then Woodhall Spa. As Martin and Timberland slowly went by The train chuffed contentedly, happy was I. But, all of a sudden, it gathered up steam And seemed to go mad as it ruined my dream. From Braceby and Laceby to Wood Enderby, Then Humby and Mumby and Sutton-on-Sea. From Aby to Swaby and straight up to Louth, Next Old Leake and New Leake and Kime [North and South]. And so the train rushed through the Lincolnshire names, Goodbye Market Deeping and Deeping St James. Hello Potterhanworth and Thornton-le-Moor And Tattershall Thorpe - have we been here before? Oh look, there's Old Bolingbroke, can we alight? No, Holton-cum-Beckering's there on the right. Grimsthorpe and Cowbit and Gedney Drove end, The train lurched past Markby and stalled on a bend. And I tumbled out as the train steamed and hissed, And with a faint sigh just dissolved in the mist. http://johnketteringham.me.uk/poems.html

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