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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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GRANTHAM - 1950 - Despite the fact that Grantham was one of the major junctions on the Great Northern mainline, this did not mean that famously parsimonious GNR lavished any great deal money on the station buildings. It has the appearance more of a country junction and was fairly typical of GNR architectural flair. Seen here in May 1950.
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GRANTHAM - 1950 - Despite the fact that Grantham was one of the major junctions on the Great Northern mainline, this did not mean that famously parsimonious GNR lavished any great deal money on the station buildings. It has the appearance more of a country junction and was fairly typical of GNR architectural flair. Seen here in May 1950.

  • GRANTHAM - 1910's - Looking south along Platform 2 in about 1910. Despite being a very important station and a major engine-changing point, the station was built in typical Great Northern style, best described as 'every expense spared'.
  • GRANTHAM - 1950 - Despite the fact that Grantham was one of the major junctions on the Great Northern mainline, this did not mean that famously parsimonious GNR lavished any great deal money on the station buildings. It has the appearance more of a country junction and was fairly typical of GNR architectural flair. Seen here in May 1950.
  • GRANTHAM - 1960's - Seen here looking south from the Down Platform in the early 1960's, I guess, judging by the DMU in the bay platform and what looks like an A1 to the right of that. The depot is still open so it must be before 1963.
  • GRANTHAM - 1963 - looking across the Station and the town from the coaling tower, prior to Depot closure in 1963. The station, in common with most GNR ECML structures, is a fine example of company parsimony.
  • GRANTHAM - 1968 - Barrowby Road Sidings branched off the line to Nottingham just after the junction with the ECML north of Grantham Station and ran off to the south west. They consisted of a couple of storage sidings and long branch leading down to Ambergate Yard, the original terminus of the railway to Grantham, adjacent to the canal. Seen here in 1968, the year in which the signal box closed.
  • GRANTHAM - 1975 - If Grantham Station looks pretty bleak in this picture that's because it is! Built on a high bank with long, pretty much unsheltered platforms, I have spent many very cold hours here over the years. Here we are looking south in September 1975.
  • GRAYS STATION - 1900's - opened in 1854 on the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway to Southend. The train in the station is headed by LTSR 4-4-2T No.21 and is bopund for Gravesend, on the other side of the Thames! The train would terminate at Tilbury Town and a ferry then carried passengers across the river.
  • GRIMOLDBY - 1920's - Opened in October 1877 by the Louth & East Coast Railway, Grimoldby was the first station on the northern arm of the Mablethorpe Loop. Typically, station facilities were very basic - one platform, a station building that was mostly the stationmaster's house, a couple of sidings and a signalbox. The station closed in December 1960 along with the rest of the line. Perhaps Grimoldby's main claim is that actor Donald Pleasance spent his childhood at the station, his father being stationmaster.
  • GRIMSBY DOCKS - 1910's - Contrast this scene with that of about 60 years later. Although the station itself is little different, the accoutrements certainly are! An old MSLR 2-4-0 on a passenger train of 6-wheeled coaches, the fabulous signal in the right foreground, the carters waiting for business and all of the advertisements.
  • GRIMSBY DOCKS - 1910's - on the line from Grimsby Town to Cleethorpes, this once important station is now just a single platform with plain track. It now only plays host to the Barton-on-Humber - Cleethorpes service and only handles about 5000 passenger journeys per year. Seen here in the 1930's.
  • GRIMSBY DOCKS - 1960's - on the line from Grimsby Town to Cleethorpes, this once important station is now just a single platform with plain track. Evidently served by trains of some importance in the early 1960's, it now only plays host to the Barton-on-Humber - Cleethorpes service.
  • GRIMSBY DOCKS - 2000's - on the line from Grimsby Town to Cleethorpes, this once important station is now just a single platform with plain track. Evidently served by trains of some importance in the early 1960's, it now only plays host to the Barton-on-Humber - Cleethorpes service and sees about 5000 passengers per year.
  • GRIMSBY TOWN - 1880 - Opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in February 1848, the station lies on what evetually became the GCR mainline from Cleethorpes to Merseyside and was the terminus of trains running over the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough and Kings Cross. The station still conforms pretty much to its original layout, three platforms, two covered by an overall roof, although this was renewed in 1978. The station handles about 400,000 passenger journeys per year. Seen here looking east in 1880.
  • GRIMSBY TOWN - 1900's - Opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in February 1848, the station lies on what evetually became the GCR mainline from Cleethorpes to Merseyside and was the terminus of trains running over the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough and Kings Cross. The station still conforms pretty much to its original layout, three platforms, two covered by an overall roof, although this was renewed in 1978. The station handles about 400,000 passenger journeys per year. Seen here from the street side in about 1900
  • GRIMSBY TOWN - 1960's - Opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in February 1848, the station lies on what eventually became the GCR mainline from Cleethorpes to Merseyside and was the terminus of trains running over the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough and Kings Cross. The station still conforms pretty much to its original layout, three platforms, two covered by an overall roof, although this was renewed in 1978. The station handles about 400,000 passenger journeys per year. Seen here looking west as a Class B1 pulls away with a passenger train.
  • GRIMSBY TOWN - 1960's - Opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in February 1848, the station lies on what evetually became the GCR mainline from Cleethorpes to Merseyside and was the terminus of trains running over the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough and Kings Cross. The station still conforms pretty much to its original layout, three platforms, two covered by an overall roof, although this was renewed in 1978. The station handles about 400,000 passenger journeys per year. Seen here looking east in the 1960's.
  • GRIMSBY TOWN - 1970's - Opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in February 1848, the station lies on what evetually became the GCR mainline from Cleethorpes to Merseyside and was the terminus of trains running over the East Lincolnshire Railway from Peterborough and Kings Cross. Seen here in 1970's, with all three roads still in place. I'd guess it's a summer Saturday judging by all of the acitivity.
  • GUNTON - 1985 - Opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1877 on the line from Norwich to Cromer High, Gunton didn't really serve anywhere. There is no village of Gunton and the nearest, Southrepps and Thorpe Market are about a mile away. It was built largely for the convenience of Lord Suffield, who lived at nearby Gunton Hall and who was major railway investor. The up platform and station buildings have been sold and the track singled and, in July 1985, it offered only a bare platform. Today, it has a shelter and benches and offers roughly a two-hourly service to the 19000 passengers it handles in a year.
  • GUYHIRNE - 1900's - Opened in 1867 on the GN/GE Joint line north of March, the station was made entirely of wood and teetered rather precarious;y atop an embankment. The station closed in 1953, although the line remained open until November 1982. The goods station was about a mile further north on the other side if the River Nene and was in Guyhirn village. Seen here looking towards March in about 1900.
  • GUYHIRNE - 1930's - Opened in 1867 on the GN/GE Joint line north of March, the station was made entirely of wood and teetered rather precarious;y atop an embankment. The station closed in 1953, although the line remained open until November 1982. The goods station was about a mile further north on the other side if the River Nene and was in Guyhirn village. Seen here looking towards north.
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