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Cows on line bring station to a halt
THE Skegness railway station was closed to the public and train services were disrupted after two cows strayed on to the lines last week.
The cows, pictured behind a buffer at the station, were destroyed by a marksman.

Photo: Paul Gooch
Source: Skegness Standard 2nd February 2005

Old photo of the Skegness Train Station LNER staff in 1931. Click on the image for large size picture.

The growth in the work of the passenger staff at Skegness Railway Station is indicated by the following figures of special excursion trains to the resort from April to September inclusive:
1925     252
1926     197
1927     410
1928     379
1929     515
1930     744
1931     [...]

JUMBO ” GETS “BRACING”
Amusing Incident Near Skegness Railway Station.
The “bracing” Skegness atmosphere has evidently been “a bit too much” for the elephant which had for the previous few weeks has been “housed” at Thompson’s amusement park on the North Parade, and had formed an unusual attraction. For on a Monday in 1929, about dinner time, [...]

1971 – The train about to leave Butlin’s Holiday Camp is the 13.00 hours for the Blessingham, Steam Museum. This picture shows the “Royal Scot” all set for its last big journey yesterday (Tuesday) morning. Its first stop was at the traffic lights in Skegness, where Coun George Walker, Chairman of the Urban Council, gave [...]

A new steam miniature train is in operation on the Skegness Railway.
The new attraction is the “Commodore Vanderbilt” – a 4-6-4 Pacific minature steam locomotive which was especially built for Skegness by Ernest Dove of Nottingham.
The train proved to be more popular with adults, as 72% of the 75,000 passengers it carried since Easter, were [...]

Thousands of sightseers lined the railway line from Nottingham to Skegness on Saturday to catch a glimpse of the “Jolly Fisherman” steam train.
Barring a demonstration run earlier this month, this was the first time a steam train had worked its way along the Skegness line for 25 years and some even perched themselves on top [...]

It was full steam ahead for the Jolly Fisherman Steam Train when the Jolly Fisherman service blasted out of Keighley, Bradford, behind two diesel locomotives – a pair of class 20s – that used to operate the train in the 1980s and 90s.
Picture by kind permission of moonhead
The Jolly Fisherman service started operating in 1908 [...]