M&GNJR MISCELLANY
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 I presume with Attlebridge, probably 2530 (I have no ticket for Attlebridge) 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.
Read MoreA 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 I presume with Attlebridge, probably 2530 (I have no ticket for Attlebridge) 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.
SPALDING - Opened in October 1848 by the GNR on the Peterborough to Boston and Lincoln routes, Spalding quickly expanded into a major railway centre, with lines to Holbeach in 1862, Bourne in 1866 and March in 1867. The railway map was competed in 1882 with the GN/GE Joint line to Sleaford. By this time the station had expanded to 7 platforms and had it's own motive power depot. The station is seen here in about 1910 with an M&GN train about to depart.
