If you go, please see the wall, approx six or seven feet high at the southern end of the southbound platform.
If you look carefully you may be able to see a spot worn smooth by my legs and shorts in the early 1960s.
We could leave our bikes for a Tanner (6d) at the garage opposite and climb onto the wall using the ladder on a lower quadrant calling-on (or "calling back") signal which was used when extra-long southbound stopping trains were sent some yards towards Gainsborough then had to reverse before going forward again, an exotic manoeuvre, especially if it was a Streak (A4 Pacific, such as Mallard.)
As the wall curved slightly eastwards there was a point from which it was possible to look Northwards and see southbound trains in the distance from round the back (ie roadside as opposed to trackside) of the station building. My party trick was to see what was coming and casually say "it's an A3" or "Streak coming" for which I was accorded Superhero status by my fellow ten-year-olds who didn't know how I knew, especially when I said I could tell by the rhythm of the wheels, long before anything was audible by man or beast.
Smarty-pants!
Happy days