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BRITISH RAILWAY STATIONS

Photographs in this gallery are of various items of railway trappings such as stations, signalboxes, signals and whatever else is not a locomotive. I took some of these, but obviously all of the older ones have been bought or passed to me and are part of my collection. Hopefully, none of them originate on the GWR! These pictures are published for pleasure/information/research purposes only and are not for sale or copy under any circumstances. Information in captions has been researched as thoroughly as possible but its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
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SIBSEY - Opened in October 1848 by the East Lincolnshire Railway, Sibsey was the first station north of Boston on the lines to Skegness and Grimsby. Although passengers were never numerous, enormous amounts of produce left the station in the potato and sugar beet seasons. The station closed to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in June 1964. Looking towards Boston in about 1900.
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SIBSEY - Opened in October 1848 by the East Lincolnshire Railway, Sibsey was the first station north of Boston on the lines to Skegness and Grimsby. Although passengers were never numerous, enormous amounts of produce left the station in the potato and sugar beet seasons. The station closed to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in June 1964. Looking towards Boston in about 1900.

  • SHIPPEA HILL - 2016 - Officially the least used station in Britain, with only one stopping service on a weekday from Cambridge to Norwich (I don't know how you get back!) and two on a Saturday. The paucity of the service is not really surprising as there is no village nearby, just an ex-pub, two ex-railway cottages and an awful lot of nothing. There is not even a bench on the westbound platform but as only I of the 7 trains a week stops on it, it's perhaps not such a big problem. The signalbox was only recently taken out of use when the line was resignalled, the hand-operated gates being replaced at the same time. Seen here on 03/11/16.
  • SHOBNALL SIDINGS - 1960's - On the southern side of Burton On Trent Station, Shobnall Sidings served a number of industrial enterprises including several breweries, factories and the canal wharf. The diesel loco to the left is one of Bass's fleet taking in barrels to the washing plant. None of this remains today.
  • SIBLEYS (for Chickney & Broxted) - This was the only true intermediate station on the Elsenham & Thaxted Light Railway, the others being only halts, situated about half way along the branch. Trains were usually mixed passenger and goods stock and shunting at Sibleys was done by towrope. There was a goods loop at this station, so that by attaching the towrope to wagons in the adjacent loop the train engine could manoeuvre them from the other track. This diversion took up to ten minutes in the busy season. Being a light railway, maximum speed was 40 mph and often much lower than that, so it became an early victim of bus competition, shutting to passengers in September 1952 and completely the following June.
  • SIBSEY - Opened in October 1848 by the East Lincolnshire Railway, Sibsey was the first station north of Boston on the lines to Skegness and Grimsby. Although passengers were never numerous, enormous amounts of produce left the station in the potato and sugar beet seasons. The station closed to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in June 1964. Looking towards Boston in about 1900.
  • SIBSEY - Opened in October 1848 by the East Lincolnshire Railway, Sibsey was the first station north of Boston on the lines to Skegness and Grimsby. Although passengers were never numerous, enormous amounts of produce left the station in the potato and sugar beet seasons. The station closed to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in June 1964. The station house is now a private residence and the signalbox still serves trains on the Boston - Skegness line.
  • SIX MILE BOTTOM - Opened in April 1848 by the Newmarket & Chesterford Railway on the line between Cambridge and Newmarket, Six Mile Bottom closed completely in January 1967. However, the line remains open and the station house and the platform it stands on survive in private hands.
  • SKEGNESS - 1910's - seaside terminus in Lincolnshire opened in August 1873, a seaside resort invented by the GNR. Originally built with 7 platforms to handle heavy excursion traffic, here we see an excursion from London just arrived behind Ivatt Large Atlantic No.1471. It looks to be a rather superior sort of affair judging by the class of passenger alighting!
  • SKEGNESS - 1930's - seaside terminus in Lincolnshire opened in August 1873, a seaside resort invented by the GNR. Originally built with 7 platforms to handle heavy excursion traffic, Two locos prepare to depart with returning specials on a typical English summer day in the 1930's! The roads to Skegness are appalling and so the station still handles over 350.000 passengers per year.
  • SKEGNESS - 1950's - The 'concourse' of Skegness Station, such as it is, with the platforms to the left, sometime in the 1950's. Not a very good picture but the large banner on the right is interesting, advertising day tickets to the nearby Butlin's holiday Camp
  • SKEGNESS - 1960's - A plethora of Class B1's (and a 4F) line up at Skegenss in the 1960's to return merrymakers to their Midland homes.
  • SKEGNESS - 1970's - Seen here in the early 1980's after some rationalisation had taken place. A Class 40 and a Class 47 sit at the head of their trains, awaiting departure.
  • SKEGNESS - 1972 - Right up until the late 1980's, the terminus at Skegness was virtually unchanged, as seen in this 1972 view of a Class 25 at the head of a returning SSO excursion to the Midlands. Unfortunately, in late 1980's, the line was 'modernised' (vandalised).
  • SKEGNESS - 1980's - 25213 and 25214 await departure from Skegness on a return excursion to Leicester whilst 37102 is on a departure for Cambridge at some point in the early 1980's.
  • SKEGNESS - 1980's - The terminus of the line from Nottingham on a summer Saturday in the late 1980's, looking over the barriers, excursion train in the platform. It appears that 4 platforms out of the 7 were still in use then.
  • SKEGNESS - 1980's - The terminus of the line from Nottingham on a summer Saturday in the late 1980's. These trains are formed of Tyseley-based Birmingham suburban units, Class 116's, on excursions from Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. It still boasted 7 platforms then and engine release points. I'm sure it's nothing like this now.
  • SKEGNESS - 1983 - Seaside terminus in Lincolnshire in 1983, kept in lovely condition. Originally built with 7 platforms to handle heavy excursion traffic, Platform 1 has been demolished by this time and only Platforms 3 & 4 (the newly ballasted ones on the right) are still in use.
  • SKEGNESS - 2019 - 43081 and 43046 sit in a much rationalised Skegness Station having arrived on 1S01 from Derby in the summer of 2019.
  • SLEAFORD - 1930's - The first railway in Sleaford was the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway which opened from Barkston Junction, north of Grantham on the Great Northern Railway main line on 16 June 1857 and on to Boston on 13 April 1859. This railway became part of the GNR in 1864, which opened a line from Bourne on 2 January 1872. Next came the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway which opened from Spalding through Sleaford to Lincoln in 1882. Finally the line to RAF Cranwell opened in 1917.This line closed in 1956, followed by the line to Bourne in 1964. The Grantham to Boston and Spalding to Lincoln lines remain open, as does the freight avoiding line bypassing the station. This has recently been refurbished by Network Rail and returned to full operation after several years of disuse (as part of the plan to route more freight trains onto the latter & away from the busy East Coast Main Line). Sleaford is one of only a few places still to have signal boxes named 'North', 'South', 'West' & 'East' around the area. The station boasts a train service of 4 trains an hour, 2 on each of the lines, and handles about 350,000 passengers per year. Seen here looking west on a rainy day. Not that much has changed in 80-odd years.
  • SLEAFORD - 1950's - A less informative picture of Sleaford Station is difficult to imagine! The main point of interest here seems to be the Gents! This view is looking west from Platform 1, with the bracket signal for West Junction and West signalbox just visible.
  • SLEAFORD - 1960 - Once a very busy railway junction, Sleaford is much less so today but is nevertheless still well served. Over 300,000 passengers a year use the Nottingham - Skegness and Peterborough - Lincoln services that use the station. It was opened in 1857 as the line to Boston crept eastwards, being joined by the line form Bourne in 1872 and by the GN&GE line in 1882. This line, a late arrival, actually bypassed the town to the east and a cut-off was built especially to give passenger access to Sleaford. Many millions of pounds have been spent recently upgrading this line for freight services. This view is looking eastwards from Platform 1 in March 1960.
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