The line saw considerable success in the late 1960s, and another steam locomotive, Elin, arrived, although it was too heavy for the lightly laid track which limited axle loadings to approximately 2.5 tonnes.

[citation needed] In the early 1980s, the railway carried heavy passenger traffic to and from a large car boot sale held at Humberston Fitties on Sundays.

[citation needed] After the line closed at the end of its 1985 season, Jurassic was still in ticket for a year, so it was taken to the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway to run in their gala, where it attracted much attention and reminded visitors that the LCLR was still in existence.

After its return to Humberston, the track was lifted and all the rolling stock, rails and equipment went into storage on land adjacent to the site of the former Burgh-le-Marsh railway station (closed 1970).

Eventually the LCLR was offered a new home in the early 1990s in the Skegness Water Leisure Park, then under development and was moved there, enabling volunteers to begin relaying the track.

The line was reopened in 2009 In 2014, a bid was made by the trust to re-build the open coach, converted in 1962 from one of the ex Nocton Class D wagons, into a disabled-friendly passenger vehicle.