The museum is housed in the original 1859
Heckington Railway station buildings, which have been carefully restored
to
their former glory, having been saved from
British Rail demolition by Heckington Village Trust in 1975.
The General Waiting Room contains a selection
of local and railway displays, GNR fireplace, ticket window and sales counter.
In the adjoining Ticket Office there are numerous
railway artefacts ranging from station names boards, railway uniforms,
cast iron warning signs, railway lamps, and
railway models, as well as the ticket office equipment
with ticket racks, Edmondson ticket stamp,
and other railway office furniture.
The stationmasters office is well equipped.
The Museum is situated at Heckington railway
station, Lincolnshire, where trains are available to and from
Skegness, Grantham and further afield.
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Museum Opening Times
The museum is open on Sundays
and Bank Holiday Mondays
from Easter until last Sunday
of September 1200 - 1700.
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There is also a thriving model
railway club which meets on Wednesday nights from 7.00pm.
Under construction at the moment
is an 'N' gauge layout of the whole of the station complex
as it was in its heyday of the
fifties.
