Great Central Railway (1897)
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Page dedicated to the original Great Central Railway and its lost main line to London and the continent.
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Steps leading to Victoria Station and Royal Victoria Hotel, from The Wicker #Sheffield
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Steps leading to Victoria Station and Royal Victoria Hotel, from The Wicker #Sheffield
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Northern Rail railbus 144006, crosses over the level crossing at Northorpe near Kirton in Lindsay on the Brigg line at 5mph, on Saturday 7th March 2020.
The crossing gates were life expired, and were replaced with new barriers and lights soon after.
© Daffyd the Signalman.
The crossing gates were life expired, and were replaced with new barriers and lights soon after.
© Daffyd the Signalman.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Northern Rail railbus 144006, crosses over the level crossing at Northorpe near Kirton in Lindsay on the Brigg line at 5mph, on Saturday 7th March 2020.
The crossing gates were life expired, and were replaced with new barriers and lights soon after.
© Daffyd the Signalman.
The crossing gates were life expired, and were replaced with new barriers and lights soon after.
© Daffyd the Signalman.
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Oxford Road station #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oxford Road station #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
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We've got less than ten places left for this talk on Saturday! Due to limited space in the venue there will be no tickets available on the door.
Email us at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk to reserve your space before it's gone!
For more info and even more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk
Email us at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk to reserve your space before it's gone!
For more info and even more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We've got less than ten places left for this talk on Saturday! Due to limited space in the venue there will be no tickets available on the door.
Email us at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk to reserve your space before it's gone!
For more info and even more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk
Email us at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk to reserve your space before it's gone!
For more info and even more events, head to histfestbucks.co.uk
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Its summer 1984, and on virtually every Sunday somewhere along the Brigg Line there was action.
37132 straddles Brigg level crossing with an engineers train, after being involved in work to single the line between Brigg and Wrawby Junction.
© Phillip Hewson
37132 straddles Brigg level crossing with an engineers train, after being involved in work to single the line between Brigg and Wrawby Junction.
© Phillip Hewson
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Its summer 1984, and on virtually every Sunday somewhere along the Brigg Line there was action.
37132 straddles Brigg level crossing with an engineers train, after being involved in work to single the line between Brigg and Wrawby Junction.
© Phillip Hewson
37132 straddles Brigg level crossing with an engineers train, after being involved in work to single the line between Brigg and Wrawby Junction.
© Phillip Hewson
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Warming up @GcrGreat . Empty unit is followed by D5370 running Loughborough Central to Swithland Sidings to collect mineral wagons. #Raturday
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Warming up @GcrGreat . Empty unit is followed by D5370 running Loughborough Central to Swithland Sidings to collect mineral wagons. #Raturday
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The Humber Valentine railtour, leaves Barnetby bound for the Grimsby - Immingham Light Railway on the 14th February 1987.
This railtour had started from Wolverhampton, and was routed back via the Brigg Line. Phillip Hewson photo is enlivened by the presence of 45115 and 47336.
This railtour had started from Wolverhampton, and was routed back via the Brigg Line. Phillip Hewson photo is enlivened by the presence of 45115 and 47336.
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The Humber Valentine railtour, leaves Barnetby bound for the Grimsby - Immingham Light Railway on the 14th February 1987.
This railtour had started from Wolverhampton, and was routed back via the Brigg Line. Phillip Hewson photo is enlivened by the presence of 45115 and 47336.
This railtour had started from Wolverhampton, and was routed back via the Brigg Line. Phillip Hewson photo is enlivened by the presence of 45115 and 47336.
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1Q50 -1344 -Derby R.T.C (Network Rail) To Doncaster C.H.S , passing Brigg level crossing and signal box this evening.
Kindly filmed by Kev Genney 📷
Kindly filmed by Kev Genney 📷
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
1Q50 -1344 -Derby R.T.C (Network Rail) To Doncaster C.H.S , passing Brigg level crossing and signal box this evening.
Kindly filmed by Kev Genney 📷
Kindly filmed by Kev Genney 📷
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Excellent news for the Brigg line on the freight operations side, from late December extra biomass diagrams will use the line for the first time on Saturday's.
📷 Brian Hall Photography
📷 Brian Hall Photography
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Excellent news for the Brigg line on the freight operations side, from late December extra biomass diagrams will use the line for the first time on Saturday's.
📷 Brian Hall Photography
📷 Brian Hall Photography
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Would have happened in the late 1950s if the idea of extending the Woodhead Route electrification over @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social main line to Marylebone had been implemented. Instead Marylebone is the only diesel only London terminus.
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Would have happened in the late 1950s if the idea of extending the Woodhead Route electrification over @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social main line to Marylebone had been implemented. Instead Marylebone is the only diesel only London terminus.
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Last pictures of the original GCR footbridge at Brigg, taken 10 years ago, this was replaced soon after by a new controversial Network Rail footbridge, built without ramps for a retirement town that can hardly use it.
nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/last...
nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/last...
LAST PICTURES OF BRIGG FOOTBRIDGE BEFORE DEMOLITION
A Blog about the town of Brigg in North Lincolnshire which gives news and sport and events and mentions pubs and shops and history
nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Last pictures of the original GCR footbridge at Brigg, taken 10 years ago, this was replaced soon after by a new controversial Network Rail footbridge, built without ramps for a retirement town that can hardly use it.
nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/last...
nigelfishersbriggblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/last...
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Kirton Lime Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Railway Station
Brigg Signal Box & Level Crossing
1977.
Brigg Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Railway Station
Brigg Signal Box & Level Crossing
1977.
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Kirton Lime Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Railway Station
Brigg Signal Box & Level Crossing
1977.
Brigg Sidings Signal Box
Brigg Railway Station
Brigg Signal Box & Level Crossing
1977.
John Quick the President of the Great Central Railway Society was on that train. It joined the main line at Bulwell Common and went on to Marylebone. He showed us his cine footage some years ago but its been published on a Marsden Rail video since.
These groups of excited onlookers are catching a glimpse of the world famous 'Flying Scotsman' as it passed by Shirebrook North Station Signal Box on the 18th April 1964.
#Railway200 #train #1960s
#Railway200 #train #1960s
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
John Quick the President of the Great Central Railway Society was on that train. It joined the main line at Bulwell Common and went on to Marylebone. He showed us his cine footage some years ago but its been published on a Marsden Rail video since.
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Marylebone which had three train sheds whenever I visited it. The decision to demolish one of them has cost people a lot of shoe leather because the station needed six platforms after all. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social
Rail liberalisation is a rearwards - not forwards - step on the path to better railways. I wrote about this recently for the German publication @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social: www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
Britain’s Railway Privatization Was an Abject Failure - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Sold off in the 1990s, the UK’s railways are returning to public hands — but at what cost?
www.rosalux.de
October 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Marylebone which had three train sheds whenever I visited it. The decision to demolish one of them has cost people a lot of shoe leather because the station needed six platforms after all. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social
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I remember a guided tour visiting the electro pneumatic signal box at Elsecar Junction - an early piece of computing by @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social signalling engineer Alf Bound.
It was supposed to rain the other day when we visited the lovely Elsecar Heritage Centre near Barnsley. It was supposed to be bleak and stormy and grey and depressing. But the sun shone like it was on a seasonal farewell tour and lit up the colours that surround us.
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I remember a guided tour visiting the electro pneumatic signal box at Elsecar Junction - an early piece of computing by @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social signalling engineer Alf Bound.
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150134 arrives at Brigg on the 21st November 1991 with a Sheffield Midland service.
The line had a 6 day a week service at this point.
Those with an eagle eye will notice tannoy speakers underneath the footbridge, announcements were made by the signaller.
© Mason Phenix.
The line had a 6 day a week service at this point.
Those with an eagle eye will notice tannoy speakers underneath the footbridge, announcements were made by the signaller.
© Mason Phenix.
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
150134 arrives at Brigg on the 21st November 1991 with a Sheffield Midland service.
The line had a 6 day a week service at this point.
Those with an eagle eye will notice tannoy speakers underneath the footbridge, announcements were made by the signaller.
© Mason Phenix.
The line had a 6 day a week service at this point.
Those with an eagle eye will notice tannoy speakers underneath the footbridge, announcements were made by the signaller.
© Mason Phenix.
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60085 crosses over the Brigg Station barrow crossing with return empty cement tanks for Hope on 21st April 1992. The cement distribution depot adjacent to Kirton Lime Signal Box closed in 1992 and so this shot represents the end of an era.
© Phillip Hewson
© Phillip Hewson
October 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
60085 crosses over the Brigg Station barrow crossing with return empty cement tanks for Hope on 21st April 1992. The cement distribution depot adjacent to Kirton Lime Signal Box closed in 1992 and so this shot represents the end of an era.
© Phillip Hewson
© Phillip Hewson
Happier days at Penistone
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Happier days at Penistone