[6] The next development was the opening of the Bourne and Spalding Railway in 1866,[7] converting the site into a through station.

In 1870, the Great Northern exercised its powers to build the Bourne and Sleaford Railway, opening in 1872.

[11] The footbridge was a characteristic Midland Railway design, and is likely to have been provided when the M&GN arrived.

[1] With the site redeveloped in the 1970s as a light industrial estate, owned by Lincolnshire County Council, in 2014 Linden Homes started redevelopment of the site, into a residential development, which retains the original station building.

By this alteration, a letter posted in London early in the morning may be delivered at Bourne the same day about noon.