Railways To Skegness

Skegness, so bracing as depicted in the famous John Hassall poster reproduced on the cover in the 1850s, was just a village with a bathing place and two hotels. However, once the railway arrived in 1873, the village grew into a popular seaside town. Early holidaymakers to the Lincolnshire resort came from London and places south of Grantham, but in 1913, the line from Kirkstead (Woodhall Junction) to Little Steeping was opened to attract better facilities for passengers from Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire. The first five chapters deal with how the network of lines grew to ultimately serve the town. Later chapters concern traffic after the First World War and local traffic. There are seven appendices, including Butlin's Holiday Camp.