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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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GILLINGHAM - 1900's - seen here in SECR days in a view posted on December 3rd, 1917. The station was opened in 1858 on the Victoria - Dover mainline and this station has completely disappeared. Note the very tall signal to make for good sighting.
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GILLINGHAM - 1900's - seen here in SECR days in a view posted on December 3rd, 1917. The station was opened in 1858 on the Victoria - Dover mainline and this station has completely disappeared. Note the very tall signal to make for good sighting.

  • GAINSBOROUGH CENTRAL - 1900's - Opened in April 1849 on the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's line from Retford through Brigg to Grimsby as plain Gainsborough. It looks very little like this today. Virtually everything visible in this picture is gone, replaced by two bus shelters! Passenger services consist of 3 trains each way on a Saturday only, resulting in about 1200 passenger journeys a year. Even this is an improvement over the 21 of 2004/05! A vigorous campaign is underway to restore an hourly weekday service as the recently upgraded route is still heavily used by freight services
  • GAINSBOROUGH CENTRAL - 1960's - Opened in April 1849 on the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's line from Retford through Brigg to Grimsby as plain Gainsborough. It looks very little like this today. Virtually everything visible in this picture is gone, replaced by two bus shelters! Passenger services consist of 3 trains each way on a Saturday only, resulting in about 1200 passenger journeys a year. Even this is an improvement over the 21 of 2004/05! A vigorous campaign is underway to restore an hourly weekday service as the recently upgraded route is still heavily used by freight services. Seen here sometime in the 1960's. Note that the overall roof is gone and there is very little sign of activity.
  • GAINSBOROUGH LEA ROAD - 1950's - although situated at a major junction, Lea Road is not convenient for the town of Gainsborough. It boasts services from Lincoln to both Sheffield and Doncaster and sits on a major freight route. Built on an embankment, it has staggered platforms and a connecting subway.
  • GAINSBOROUGH LEA ROAD - 1950's - although situated at a major junction, Lea Road is not convenient for the town of Gainsborough. It boasts services from Lincoln to both Sheffield and Doncaster and sits on a major freight route. Built on an embankment, it has staggered platforms and a connecting subway.
  • GANTON - 1930's - A minor railway station serving the village of Ganton, North Yorkshire, on the York - Scarborough Line and was opened on July 5th, 1845, by the York and North Midland Railway. In order to speed up traffic on the line, most of the intermediate stations including Ganton were closed to passenger traffic in September 1930 and was finally closed to goods traffic in 1964.
  • GILLINGHAM - 1900's - seen here in SECR days in a view posted on December 3rd, 1917. The station was opened in 1858 on the Victoria - Dover mainline and this station has completely disappeared. Note the very tall signal to make for good sighting.
  • GOSPORT - 1940's - Terminus of a short branch from Fareham, opened in 1841, closed to passengers in 1953 and completely in 1969. Only the platform with the auto-train standing in it, on the left, appears to be used for passengers. Much of the freight was probably Naval stores.
  • GRAIN HALT - 1910's - The Hundred of Hoo Railway, from Hoo Junction to Port Victoria, was opened in 1882 by the SECR. It ran through a largely unpopulated area of the marshes on the southern side of the Thames Estuary. In 1906, in an effort to encourage new traffic, seven new halts were opened on the line and Grain Halt, officially called Grain Crossing Halt, was the most easterly of them. Facilities were very basic as can be seen and there were no goods facilities at all. In September 1951, a new station was opened at Grain and so the halt was closed. Seen here in about 1916.
  • GRAIN HALT - 1940's - The Hundred of Hoo Railway, from Hoo Junction to Port Victoria, was opened in 1882 by the SECR. It ran through a largely unpopulated area of the marshes on the southern side of the Thames Estuary. In 1906, in an effort to encourage new traffic, seven new halts were opened on the line and Grain Halt, officially called Grain Crossing Halt, was the most easterly of them. Facilities were very basic as can be seen and there were no goods facilities at all. In September 1951, a new station was opened at Grain and so the halt was closed. Note that the wooden platform has been replaced and extended from the 1916 picture, a new concrete hut built and the signal moved.
  • GRANGE-OVER-SANDS - 1910's - Opened by the Ulverstone & Lancaster Railway in September 1857 as plain Grange, the station sits on the northern edge of Morecambe bay on the line to Barrow in Furness. The station is still open and handles about 150,000 passengers per year, to some extent reflecting it's status as minor seaside resort and hiking centre.
  • GRANGE-OVER-SANDS - 1910's - Opened by the Ulverstone & Lancaster Railway in September 1857 as plain Grange, the station sits on the northern edge of Morecambe bay on the line to Barrow in Furness. The station is still open and handles about 150,000 passengers per year, to some extent reflecting it's status as minor seaside resort and hiking centre. Here we see it in about 1910 with a Furness 0-6-0 on a freight entering the station.
  • 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 - 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.
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