Steaming back to Louth from the north
A £50,000 grant bid for a Restoring Your Railway Fund feasibility study to rebuild the much-lamented East Lincolnshire Line from Firsby Junction to Louth from the south has been turned down, as reported in issue 287 of Heritage Railway – however, determined Lincolnshire Wolds Railway volunteers are working flat out to relay part of the route towards Louth from the north.
Their plan is to extend the heritage line in stages, as funds become available, over the five miles of trackbed which it owns as far as the industrial estate on the outskirts of Louth.
The first target is to reach
