Through Freight
The Midland Railway was granted running powers over the Stamford and Essendine in 1866 and used it to sent goods traffic to the Eastern & Midland Railway at Bourne and thence to East Anglia, but the junction arrangements at Essendine, where a reversal and flat crossing of the GNR main line were required, meant that as traffic increased, the route via Peterborough and the Great Eastern became preferred. To regain traffic, the Eastern & Midland obtained powers in 1888 for a direct line from Bourne to the Midland Railway station at Saxby, near Melton Mowbray, and when this opened, most of the remaining east-west goods traffic was rerouted via the new line.
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