A look at the first edition of Baker's Rail Atlas from 1977, on the top of page 49, reveals a dangling red line that ends at Louth. Turn to page 58 and you see the line has started at Grimsby. It represented a 14-mile single-track freight-only line serving a malt kiln at the East Lincolnshire town but in 1977 it was also the remaining, relatively large, chunk of a through route that had been cut back in 1970.rnBeeching had done his worst in the mid-1960s in trimming the network, closing lines which had little patronage or duplicate routes. But the end of the decade and the start of the 1970s saw a few other line closures - some quite high-profile.
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