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KINGS CLIFFE - On the LNWR Peterborough East - Rugby line, first station west of Nassington, junction for this line and the line to Northampton. Built on a high embankment and opened in 1879, the platforms are of wood and goods facilities are at the far end of the station. It closed to passengers in June 1966 and freight in 1970, the line being truncated at Nassington and forming the present Nene Valley Railway. Seen here is an LNWR 2-4-0 in about 1900.
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KINGS CLIFFE - On the LNWR Peterborough East - Rugby line, first station west of Nassington, junction for this line and the line to Northampton. Built on a high embankment and opened in 1879, the platforms are of wood and goods facilities are at the far end of the station. It closed to passengers in June 1966 and freight in 1970, the line being truncated at Nassington and forming the present Nene Valley Railway. Seen here is an LNWR 2-4-0 in about 1900.

  • HOPE - on the line from Sheffield to Manchester, Hope was opened in 1894 and still handles around 50000 passengers a year, many of them tourists visiting local scenic attractions - seen here in 1957.
  • HUNSTANTON - Terminus of the Lynn & Hunstanton Railway, the station opened in October 1862 and was immediately the focus of seasonal passenger traffic. Built hard against the seafront, the station had full neeed of it's 4 platforms on Summer Sundays, when excursion arrived at 10 minute intervals. With the advent of the private car, passenger numbers declined, the station lost it goods facilities in October 1962, was reduced to unstaffed status in June 1966 and was closed completely in May 1969, a decision much regretted to this day. Seen here in the early years of the century will all platforms occupied.
  • HUNSTANTON - Terminus of the Lynn & Hunstanton Railway, the station opened in October 1862 and was immediately the focus of seasonal passenger traffic. Built hard against the seafront, the station had full neeed of it's 4 platforms on Summer Sundays, when excursion arrived at 10 minute intervals. With the advent of the private car, passenger numbers declined, the station lost it goods facilities in October 1962, was reduced to unstaffed status in June 1966 and was closed completely in May 1969, a decision much regretted to this day. The train appears to be headed by Holden GER Class T26 2-4-0 No.478, built between 1891 and 1902, thus dating the picture.
  • HUNTINGDON NORTH STATION - Opened in August 1850 by the GNR as plain Huntingdon, it received it's 'North' suffix when East Station was built on the GER/MR line to Kettering. Up until the 1980's, services to and from the station were very poor, few mainline trains stopping and most journeys entailing one or more changes. Since then, however, the service is half-hourly in both directions and 1/8 million passengers per year use the station, probably many more than when this picture was taken in about 1910.
  • HYKEHAM - Opened in August 1846, Hykeham is the first stop out of Lincoln on the line to Nottingham. The station, which features only the most basic of facilities today, does not look a lot more plush in this 1950's picture. Nevertheless, the station generated nearly 50,000 passengers in the year 2014/15.
  • ISHAM AND BURTON LATIMER STATION - Situated on the Midland Mainline between Kettering and Wellingborough, the station opened in May 1857 as Isham, renamed Isham & Burton Latimer just 18 months later. Another change came in October 1923 when it was renamed Isham for Burton Latimer. The station closed to all traffic in November 1950.
  • JOHN O'GAUNT - Opened in 1879 on the Great Northern and L&NWR Joint Line as Burrow & Twyford, it became John O'Gaunt in 1883. It was the first station south of Melton Mowbray and just north of Marefield Junction, where the line swung west to terminate at Leicester Belgrave Road. Although freight traffic was heavy, passenger traffic never really amounted to much, partly due to the sparseness of the population in this part of Leicestershire. The station closed for all traffic in 1953 although the line itself struggled on into the next decade. Here was see a typically poorly patronised local in early BR days.
  • KENNETT - opened in 1854 and lying between Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk - the station closed for good traffic in 1965 but remains open for passengers.
  • KERSHOPEFOOT - Opened in 1862 by the Border Union Railway, Kershopefoot was right on the border with Scotland, first stop south of Newcastleton. It did not really serve a community, just a scattering of farms and cottages. The building on the left is the stationmaster's house with the booking office alongside. The signalbox was moved in 1915 to the other end of the opposite platform so that it could control the goods yard of two sidings. The station closed to goods in December 1964 and to passengers in January 1969 - posted July 29th, 1909.
  • KETTON - The first station west of Stamford, Ketton Station opened in May 1848, built of the famous local stone, and closed in June 1966 in conjunction with the closure of the branch to Seaton Junction. In July 1935, it was renamed Ketton and Collyweston and remained thus until closure. The signal box remains as does one of the original Midland Railway lower quadrant signals.
  • KINGS CLIFFE - On the LNWR Peterborough East - Rugby line, first station west of Nassington, junction for this line and the line to Northampton. Built on a high embankment and opened in 1879, the platforms are of wood and goods facilities are at the far end of the station. It closed to passengers in June 1966 and freight in 1970, the line being truncated at Nassington and forming the present Nene Valley Railway.
  • KINGS CLIFFE - On the LNWR Peterborough East - Rugby line, first station west of Nassington, junction for this line and the line to Northampton. Built on a high embankment and opened in 1879, the platforms are of wood and goods facilities are at the far end of the station. It closed to passengers in June 1966 and freight in 1970, the line being truncated at Nassington and forming the present Nene Valley Railway. Seen here is an LNWR 2-4-0 in about 1900.
  • KINGS CROSS LOCOSHED, August 1921 (1) - In the shed yard. Identifiable are Class C1 Atlantic No.274, 'Long Tom' Class Q1 0-8-0 No.436 and Class N2 0-6-2T's Nos.1768 and 1769. Note the 'Gentleman Spotter'!
  • KINGS CROSS LOCOSHED, August 1921 (2) - In the shed yard. Identifiable are Class C1 Atlantic No.274, 'Long Tom' Class Q1 0-8-0 No.436 and Class N2 0-6-2T No. 1769. Note the 'Gentleman Spotter'!
  • KINGS LYNN - An aerial view from 1950. The station itself would not seem so radically different today but everything else had changed enormously. In the bottom right corner we have the harbour lines serving the docks, still in place but unused. Most of the extensive goods yard is now covered in superstores and the locoshed, no doubt crammed with 'Clauds', J17's, B17's and J69 tanks, is but a distant memory. Kings Lynn, although a terminus, was also a major junction with lines radiating out to Hunstanton, Norwich, Wisbech and Liverpool Street plus the shuttles to the M&GN at South Lynn. Only the mainline to London now remains.
  • KINGS LYNN - The station here bears little resemblance to what appears in this 1950 aerial view. Once the centre of a complicated web of railways, only the line to Cambridge now remains, although the original station buildings have been retained and tastefully restored. Much of the goods yard is now occupied by a retail park.
  • KIRBY MUXLOE - Opened in 1848 on the section of the Midland Railway's Leicester - Coalville line that avoided the limitations of the original Leicester - Swannington Railway. The station closed to all traffic in 1964 but the line remains open for freight traffic.
  • KIRTON-IN-LINDSEY - This small station was opened in 1849 on the line from Gainsborough Central to Brigg. In passenger terms, the line was never heavily used, there being many alternative routes in this area. The line has been singled and the platform on the left demolished, although the platform on the right and its buildings are more or less complete. This line is unusual in that it only has a service of 3 trains in each direction and those only on a Saturday! This may account for the passenger figures of 224 in 2011!
  • KNOTTINGLEY - This is what happens to old signals when they die! A typical piece of 1960's vandalism in Yorkshire.
  • KYLE OF LOCHALSH - opened in 1897 adjacent to the Skye steamer wharf, rendered redundant when the bridge was opened. Despite severe track rationalisation, the station itself looks little different today - seen here in July 1913.
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