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Donington on Bain railway station

railway station in Lincolnshire, England, UK, now closed

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ5296129 ↗
Source-derived summary

Donington railway station was a station in the village of Donington on Bain, Lincolnshire, England.

History

The Great Northern Railway planned and built a branch line from Bardney to Louth in stages, the middle stage between Wragby and Donington-on-Bain opening for freight on 27 September 1875.

Passenger services ended on 5 November 1951, goods traffic on 1 December 1958.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Donington on Bain railway station” is railway station in Lincolnshire, England, UK, now closed. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Donington, Bain and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 1951, 1958—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Donington, Bain and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Lincolnshire, England, UK, now closed” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5296129. Authority coordinates are 53.318, -0.137. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1875, 1951 and 1958.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Donington on Bain railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Donington on Bain railway station primary sources, Donington on Bain railway station archive and Donington research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Donington on Bain railway station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Donington on Bain railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.