[2] The station was popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries for seaside connections to Skegness, but was recommended for closure in the Beeching Report and closed in 1970.

The station, originally named Firstby, opened on 3 September 1848, and attracted a regular goods service from Louth.

[4] The station had three platforms each two hundred and twenty yards long and covered with buildings, booking offices, several waiting rooms (male, female and general), restaurants, toilets, baggage and goods halls, crew rooms, staff canteen and housing, and several railway offices.

[5] The station also had signal boxes, water towers, extensive goods sidings, and engine repair sheds.

There are several mentions in old records of a second drinking establishment around 1852, called Whyley's Beerhouse, that stood adjacent to Firsby railway station.