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Included here are pictures of the old Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway that are not really about locomotives - coaches, wagons, stations, engine sheds, bridges, etc. 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.
A few thoughts on the tickets - at the bottom centre of some is a four digit number, 2554 in the case of Hillington. This an LNER station identification code, denoting the point of origin but not the destination. On the M&GN, the stations were numbered alphabetically, starting with Attlebridge, 2530, and ending with Yarmouth Beach, 2594. This would suggest that tickets with these number are post-1923 whereas those without would predate that. The destination is printed under this number or left blank to be handwritten. I presume that these outward portions were returned to the station of origin or to regional headquarters for accounting purposes and the code numbers enabled staff to sort them more quickly and accurately. I might add that this is all purely guesswork as I have been unable to find any evidence to support this idea.
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HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms. Seen here from behind the tender of a 4MT.
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HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms. Seen here from behind the tender of a 4MT.

  • HOLT - The workers from Beaven's Tannery await the arrival of their works excursion to Portsmouth on July 4th, 1905. It's hard to believe that so many women wore white given the griminess of railway travel in those times.
  • HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms.
  • HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms.
  • HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms.
  • HONING - Opened in August 1882 by the Yarmouth & North Norfolk Railway on the line from Melton Constable to Yarmouth Beach, Honing (for Worstead & Dilham), to give the official name, is typical of the small stations on this line. It closed in March 1959 but much of it remains including both platforms. Seen here from behind the tender of a 4MT.
  • LENWADE - Opened in July 1882 by the Lynn & Fakenham Railway, the station closed to passengers in March 1959 but retained its freight services, principally to serve Anglian Building Products, who built large concrete girders used in motorway construction and unsuitable for road transport. Here we see the station in May 1966 with the coal yard still in use and train of concrete girders just visible in the distance. The line finally closed in 1983.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - As it prepared to cross the GNR mainline, the M&GN was raised up on quite a high embankment. The line of high yellow-leaved trees here marks that embankment. The track was double to here from Bourne, the signalbox standing roughly where the blue arrow points, the track singling here. The boundary post was here also, Midland territory laying beyond. The red arrow shows where the bridge over GN mainline stood. Note the ECML catenary posts on the left. Seen here on September 28th, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.43 spans the GNR mainline just north of Little Bytham Station, brand new and not yet completed. Evidently, the quadrupling of this section was imminent as plenty of room has been left for a fourth track. The bridge was demolished shortly after closure but the abutments are still there. I used to sit on them as a boy to spot but the signalman would usually chase us off.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.44 carried the M&GN over the road and then, immediately to the right, over the GNR mainline. This was MR territory, the boundary marker and signalbox being about 150 yards to the left. The track also singled here. Seen on November 2nd, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.244, now firmly on M&GN territory, carried a farm track. It was if standard 3-arch construction, seen here on November 2nd, 2017. When I was a lad, this bridge formed part of my cycle route to Little Bytham to go spotting. There is no direct road between Edenham and Little Bytham and the journey was 7 miles. By going up Scottlethorpe Lane, onto the railway trackbed and then onto the park road, I cut an extremely hilly 3 miles off the journey, a major consideration when you've only got a clapped out bike about 3 sizes too small for you.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.245, otherwise known as Grimsthorpe Park Bridge, was the last engineering work on M&GN territory. Although a standard 3-arch blue brick bridge, the coping is stone as it carried what was then the main carriage drive into Grimsthorpe Park and the Castle. The carriage drive had been moved a little to the east so that a skew bridge was not necessary and the line could be crossed at right angle, much cheaper. Seen here on November 2nd, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.245, the Grimsthorpe Park Bridge, carries the carriage road over the M&GN trackbed below, viewed from the road. The parapets are stone and quite high, presumably so that his Lordship and visitors did not have to see the trains below. This road is no longer the main entrance to the castle. Seen here on November 2nd, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - Bridge No.245, the Grimsthorpe Park Bridge newly built in 1893, bridge no.244 visible through the arch. Although the left hand track is complete, the right hand track is the contractor's line and only recently moved to the right as the smoke stain on the bridge shows.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - The view through Bridge No.244 looking towards Bourne, showing the course of the M&GN running straight as an arrow, November 2nd, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - This picture is taken from the bed of the M&GN cutting between bridges 244 and 245, looking east, and shows where the track of the M&GN western extension, built in 1894, cut through the formation of the E&LBR, abandoned since 1890. Seen here on November 2nd, 2017.
  • LITTLE BYTHAM - This picture is taken from the bed of the M&GN cutting between bridges 244 and 245, looking west, and shows where the track of the M&GN western extension, built in 1894, cut through the formation of the E&LBR, abandoned since 1890. Seen here on November 2nd, 2017.
  • LMSR LUGGAGE/PARCEL LABEL - YARMOUTH BEACH, via Saxby and South Lynn.
  • LMSR WAGON LABEL - CORBY & WELDON to HONING - On April 5th, 1940, Wagon No.GW28940 was despatched from Corby & Weldon to Honing for Worstead via Saxby, Bourne and South Lynn, consigned to Mr. RW Alston.
  • LMSR WAGON LABEL - LIVERPOOL to HONING (1) - On June 10th, 1940, LNER Wagon No.96407 was dispatched from Sandon Dock, Liverpool, to Honing (for Worstead), via Godley Junction, Sykes Joint Line and Spalding, with an unspeciified urgent cargo for Cubitt & Walker Ltd.
  • LMSR WAGON LABEL - LIVERPOOL to HONING (2) - LNER Wagon No. written on the rear of the label.
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