The Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway at Ingoldmells near Skegness in Lincolnshire is breaking new ground when it features in BBC 1’s Antiques Road Trip.

Road Trip regulars Izzie Balmer and Mark Hill star in the programme, and visited the railway last May to film episodes that are to be broadcast during the week commencing Monday, 23rd February 2026 at 4.30 pm. The episodes at the railway were filmed by a crew from STV, which produces the series for the BBC.

The Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, at the railway in the Skegness Water Leisure Park, was the world’s first heritage railway to be built by enthusiasts.

Among its collection are numerous vehicles from English narrow gauge railways, with many being used on the battlefields during World War I.

Antiques Road Trip features pairs of antiques experts who set off on a road trip around the UK to visit antique and second-hand shops to search for treasures to later sell at auction.

The experts choose five items to sell, and vie with each other to see who can make the most money, both at each auction and as overall winners of the week.

During their visit, Mark Hill interviewed Stuart Yates, a LCLR volunteer from Thorpe St. Peter, whilst travelling from Walls Lane station to the newly-built Seathorne Bank station behind the recently-overhauled vintage steam locomotive Jurassic. They travelled in a Class D bogie wagon, built in Lincoln in 1916 and used in World War I, which has been adapted as a disabled access carriage.

Inside the ticket office at Walls Lane station, Mark interviewed the Chairman of the LCLR’s Historic Vehicles Trust, Richard Shepherd. The ticket office replicates Stretton station on the now-closed Ashover Light Railway; two carriages once used on the railway now run on the LCLR.

“The programme will help to make us much better known, as it is surprising how many people in the Skegness area and the wider county don’t know there is this unique part of our heritage running trains in Skegness. The crew were particularly interested in our preservation of the old Lincolnshire potato railways, as some of our locomotives, carriages and wagons were used on the largest of those systems, the 23 miles of the Nocton Estates Railway, from Nocton to Bardney. Our steam engine, Jurassic, is even older. It was built for a quarry in Warwickshire and was running three months before the first powered flight by man and nine years before the Titanic sank, it’s that old. We hope the programme will inspire more people to visit the Skegness area and to explore not only our railway heritage, but that of the wider county.”

Richard Shepherd