An early Lincolnshire Railway Map
Although the extracts below are from a map that accompanied the March 1850 Bradshaw's Guide, it's clearly a few years earlier. The solid lines indicate completed railways, broken lines proposed routes and railways under construction. This preceeds the opening of the "Towns Route" (the present East Coast Main Line). The Great Northern's Loop line through Boston and Lincoln was then part of the main East Coast route between London snd the North. King's Cross had not been built yet, so passengers would reach Lincolnshire from either Fenchurch Street and travel via Ely and Peterborough, or from Euston Square (nowadays Euston Station), via Northampton and Peterborough. The East Lincolnshire Line is extant, alouth the branches to Spilsby, Skegness, and Mablethorpe had yet to be constructed. It's main function at the time was to provide a direct route to Hull via the ferry at New Holland. Lincoln was linked with Newark, Sheffield, and Grimsby. Scunthorpe and Gr...