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Boston Docks branchline, Boston

The railway's swing bridge over The Haven. Trainload freight ceased in January 1993 on this former GNR branchline due to a slow decline in traffic following WWII. The link to Grimsby closed in 1970 and by 1980 the branch was only carrying 10% of the port's traffic. The port was sold off to the Sutcliffe Group, a private sector and British Rail stated they may refuse traffic from January 1990. This did not occur for three years, which then culminated in an unwelcome increase in road traffic from the dock. Then came privatisation of the railways and the dock company and EWS, the UK's main railfreight operating company, agreed to a resumption of traffic following track and loading improvements within the port. On September 29 1997, the service resumed with the arrival of 13 empty wagons for the Round Oak steel terminus near Dudley. The harbour branch was reborn.

Looking across to the Riverside Quay.