33116 Hertfordshire Railtours & 33051 Shakespeare Cliff pass through Thorpe Culvert station on 22 March 1997 with the Hertfordshire Railtours 1Z33 08:33 Kings Cross to Skegness 'Swineshead Revisited' railtour. The station is situated in the flat Lincolnshire landscape, with only a few farms and scattered houses in the vicinity.