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It's a long shot but can anyone identify this station please?

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If any sharp eyed member happens to spot the station name anywhere on the image, I apologise for that. Just had eye surgery and my peepers are not so good for now.
Scanned the picture from an elderly person's photo album. Nothing written on the back of the photo.
 
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Spalding - from the number of trains, busy enough to be Flower Parade time, but of course Spalding had 4 routes south and 2 north, so could have been a normal day!
 
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Wow! Where did all those platforms go. I've seen Spalding recently and it's just got the standard two, one facing the other.
 
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tom73 said:
Wow! Where did all those platforms go. I've seen Spalding recently and it's just got the standard two, one facing the other.
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The 5 through platforms were still there in the early 80s, when I first visited - came in handy once a year!
 
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It's so sad when station's loose their passengers and services
The big question is where did the passengers all go to?
The vast majority were literally driven away from the railways as both labour and tory governments deliberately and systematically destroyed our railways. For different reasons though.
 
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Mark62 said:
It's so sad when station's loose their passengers and services
The big question is where did the passengers all go to?
The vast majority were literally driven away from the railways as both labour and tory governments deliberately and systematically destroyed our railways. For different reasons though.
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Noting that even in the station’s heyday Spalding only had relatively irregular and infrequent services that connected poorly with each other and stopped at many stations that were indifferently located for small rural villages do you not think that the arrival of the car, bus and lorry might have been a bigger factor?
I lived in Spalding for a time and with the best will in the world it was only a modest market town when it had the full range of routes.
 
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Of course that's a factor. But closures went ahead esp in Lincolnshire where if it was an electrion there would have been accusations of gerrymandering
Trains suddenly disappeared from timetables even though they were running. The Labour government in the 60s went out of their way to destroy the railways of Lincolnshire. There are some very good, yet horrific accounts.
And everywhere you looked the spectre of Barbara Castle loomed large.
 
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Many Lincolnshire stations on still open lines seemed to close towards the end of the 1950's some years before the elimination of entire lines
 
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