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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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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.
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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 - 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.
  • GUYHIRNE - 2016 - The station house at Guyhirn on the GN/GE Joint Line just outside of March (only the railway spelt it with an 'e'). The station was not in Guyhirn but in the adjacent Rings End. Apart from this building, the whole station was built of wood and was perched on the high embankment seen to the left of the house. It opened in 1867 and was 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.
  • HABROUGH JUNCTION - 1950's - Looking west towards the junction, one line going to Barton-on-Humber, the other to Barnetby and thence Lincoln, Scunthorpe and Doncaster. The isolated station still sees a roughly 2-hourly service to Grimsby and Lincoln and SO to Brigg and Gainsborough. All of the buildings have been replaced by bus shelters and the footbridge and signalbox are no more.
  • HABROUGH JUNCTION - 1950's - The junction is behind the camera, one line going to Barton-on-Humber, the other to Barnetby and thence Lincoln, Scunthorpe and Doncaster. The isolated station still sees a roughly 2-hourly service to Grimsby and Lincoln and SO to Brigg and Gainsborough.
  • HABROUGH JUNCTION - 1958 - a Class 114 DMU departs for Grimsby in 1958. The junction is behind the camera, one line going to Barton-on-Humber, the other to Barnetby and thence Lincoln, Scunthorpe and Doncaster. The isolated station still sees a roughly 2-hourly service.
  • HADDENHAM - 1960's - Open by the Ely & St Ives Railway in April 1866 on the line from Ely to St Ives, Haddenham was a major goods station despite it's diminuitive size. Closed to passengers in February 1931, occasiojnal summer excursion trains operated until 1958. The station closed to goods in July 1964 and little now remains of it.
  • HALESWORTH - 1954 - Opened in December 1854 by the East Suffolk Railway, Halesworth Station was most unusual in that , having a road that crossed the station site on the flat, instead of having level crossing gates it had moveable platform sections. As can be seen in this 1954 view, it was not a one man job to move them. The station's other claim to fame is that it was mainline terminus of the Southwold Railway until 1929.
  • HALESWORTH - 1960's - Opened in December 1854 by the East Suffolk Railway, Halesworth Station was most unusual in that , having a road that crossed the station site on the flat, instead of having level crossing gates it had moveable platform sections. There is still a good bit of business being done in the goods yard.
  • HALTON HOLGATE - 1950's - Opened in May 1868, Halton Holgate was the only intermediate station on the GNR branch from Firsby to Spilsby. Despite being very substantially built, the station was very small with only the one very short platform and a tiny goods yard. Passenger traffic ceased in September 1939 as a wartime emergency measure and was never reinstated. Freight services ceased in December 1958. Here we see the station after closure to passengers with a Class J6 0-6-0 passing through on branch freight.
  • HAMPOLE - 1910's - Opened in 1885 by the West Riding & Grimsby Railway, Hampole was a small station built entirely of wood with a separate house fort the station master visible in the right background. The station closed in January 1952.
  • HAM STREET - 1999 - Opened in February 1851 by the South Eastern Railway on its line from Ashford to Hastings, the station at Ham Street handles 100,000 passengers a years, quite a respectable number for such a small station. The service is hourly to Ashford and Hastings and a footbridge was recently erected to obviate the use of the board crossing. The station building is no longer in railway use. Seen here on July 29th, 1999.
  • HARBY & STATHERN - 1950's - This station, opened in September 1879, lay on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway that ran from Nottingham and Grantham to Leicester Belgrave Road and Market Harborough through the iron rich lands of eastern Leicestershire. The station had an importance belying it's size as it was the locomotive exchange point between the two owning companies and also the concentration point for the several local ironstone operations. Passenger traffic was sparse, as the facilities might suggest, although some services did start from the bay platform on the right. Regular passenger services were withdrawn in December 1953 but through specials on summer Saturdays from Leicester Belgrave Road continued until September 1962, goods traffic lasting for another two years.
  • HARDINGHAM - 1910's - Opened in February 1847 on the line from Wymondham to East Dereham, Hardingham is now part of the Mid-Norfolk Railway. There is passing loop here and Great Eastern Traction Ltd is based in the sidings to the north of the station. A £3,000,000 project to relay the lifted up formation and restore the second platform at this station, in order to provide a storage siding for new Abellio Greater Anglia trains running between Hardingham and Kimberley, was conducted in 2018 and 2019.[4] This involved the partial relaying of the lifted sections of the double line southwards towards Kimberley Park railway station, provision of a storage yard on the site of an original ballast quarry and erection of signalling - controlled from the signal box at Thuxton.
  • HARLESTON - 1900's - Opened in December 1855, Harleston was one of many stations on the short Waveney Valley Line between Tivetshall and Beccles in Suffolk. Traffic was never heavy: indeed, two of the stations on the line were closed as long ago as 1866! Passenger services were withdrawn in January 1953 and the line was bisected into Tivetshall - Harleston and Beccles - Bungay sections for freight traffic, this ceasing in April 1966. The station building still exists as private residence.
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