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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.
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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.

  • FRENCH DROVE AND GEDNEY HILL - 2017 - Opened in 1867 on the Great Northern & Great Eastern Railway Joint Line from March to Spalding. This was a major freight route and passenger services were of secondary importance. The nearest villagec is Throckenholt, a typically Fenland linear village, the far end of which would be about 3 miles distant. There is no village of French Drove and Gedney Hill is about a mile away on the left. There were long freight loops at French Drove, starting just beyond the goods yard. The station building and signalbox both survive as a private dwelling. The line closed in 1982 and was lifted shortly thereafter, a decision bitterly regretted in railway circles today. Seen here on 05/07/17.
  • FRENCH DROVE AND GEDNEY HILL - 2017 - Opened in 1867 on the Great Northern & Great Eastern Railway Joint Line from March to Spalding. This was a major freight route and passenger services were of secondary importance. The nearest village in this direction is Throckenholt, a typically Fenland linear village, the far end of which would be about 3 miles distant. There is no village of French Drove and Gedney Hill is about a mile away on the left. There were long freight loops at French Drove, starting just beyond the goods yard. The station building and signalbox both survive as a private dwelling. The line closed in 1982 and was lifted shortly thereafter, a decision bitterly regretted in railway circles today. Seen here on 05/07/17.
  • FRENCH DROVE AND GEDNEY HILL - 2017 - Opened in 1867 on the Great Northern & Great Eastern Railway Joint Line from March to Spalding. This was a major freight route and passenger services were of secondary importance. This view is looking south towards March, no habitation visible. The large signalbox has been converted into a house. The box was so large as the box worked the pints and signals on the long freight loops north of the station. Seen here on 05/07/17.
  • 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 - 1930'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, the entire station having been demolished in 1975 and replaced by two bus shelters and a footbridge! 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 looking north with very little going on.
  • GAINSBOROUGH CENTRAL - 1950'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, the entire station having been demolished in 1975 and replaced by two bus shelters and a footbridge! 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 looking south showing the rather grand porte-cochere surrounded by goods sidings!
  • 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 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, the entire station having been demolished in 1975 and replaced by two bus shelters and a footbridge! 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. In the 1956 Summer Timetable, there were about 9 trains each way per day, most of them Retford - Cleethorpes - Retford, plus a number of non-stopping SSO's. Seen here is a Class 114 DMU about to depart on a train for Cleethorpes.
  • 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.
  • GOSBERTON - 1960 - Located on the GN/GE Joint line between Pinchbeck and Donington Road stations, Gosberton opened in 1882, closing to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in December 1964. Whilst it could never have produced much passenger traffic, being almost a mile from the village of the same name, goods traffic was considerable, being situated as it was in the midst of the Fens. Seen here looking north in November 1960 as Class V2 No.60866 heads south on what appears to be a special composed of horse boxes.
  • GOSBERTON - 1960 - Located on the GN/GE Joint line between Pinchbeck and Donington Road stations, Gosberton opened in 1882, closing to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in December 1964. Whilst it could never have produced much passenger traffic, being almost a mile from the village of the same name, goods traffic was considerable, being situated as it was in the midst of the Fens. Seen here looking north in November 1960.
  • GOSBERTON - 1960's - Located on the GN/GE Joint line between Pinchbeck and Donington Road stations, Gosberton opened in 1882, closing to passengers in September 1961 and to goods in December 1964. Whilst it could never have produced much passenger traffic, being almost a mile from the village of the same name, goods traffic was considerable, being situated as it was in the midst of the Fens. Seen here looking south as Class 9F No.92191 heads north on a train of coal empties.
  • GOXHILL - 1960's - Goxhill railway station was built by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway in 1848. The station is on the Barton Line 17 miles north west of Cleethorpes and all trains serving it are operated by East Midlands Railway. The station retains both platforms and the station buildings, albeit in private ownership, despite having been unstaffed since 1969. There is a service of roughly one train every two hours in each direction between Cleethorpes and Barton On Humber and about 12500 passengers use the station each year. Seen here looking north.
  • GRAINSBY HALT - 1961 - Grainsby Halt was on the East Lincolnshire Railway between Holton-le Clay and North Thoresby which served the hamlet of Grainsby in Lincolnshire between 1905 and 1952. The station, which opened as part of a new motor train service between Grimsby and Louth, was opened to serve a Victorian hall situated 2 miles to the west. The station, one of the smallest to be taken over by British Railways on nationalisation in 1947, never really justified its existence and closed in 1952 following a period of temporary closure during the Second World War. The line through Grainsby remained open for freight until December 1980. Seen here in August 1961, almost 1o years after closure.
  • 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.
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