Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway and Grimsby Docks Company (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway)






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

66093 on an Immingham coal service to Drax at Gainsborough Central in 2008. The normal route via Scunthorpe was shut on this occasion due to ...
Roger Geach 30/01/2008
66557 with empty coal hoppers for Immingham at Gainsborough Central in 2008. ...
Roger Geach 30/01/2008
Gainsborough Central signalbox in October 2013 in need of some TLC. ...
John McIntyre 06/10/2013
I arrived at Gainsborough Central on a Sunday to find it all locked up, no trains today.  There wasn't much to lock up really, just a basic shelter ...
John McIntyre 06/10/2013
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60015 on 'The Last Chance' Railtour on 8th April 2023, seen near Blyton on the Brigg line which is very under used and now sees little traffic at all. ...
Roger Geach 08/04/2023
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153321 departs north from Market Rasen in October 2013, with an EMT service to Grimsby Town. ...
John McIntyre 10/10/2013
The view south towards Lincoln of the platforms and station buildings at Market Rasen in October 2013. ...
John McIntyre 10/10/2013
66506 heads for an east Midlands power station with imported coal from Immingham on 10 October 2013. The train is approaching Market Rasen, with the ...
John McIntyre 10/10/2013
East Midlands 153321 arrives at Market Rasen station from the south on 10 October 2013 heading for Grimsby. This is the only station still open ...
John McIntyre 10/10/2013
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There is no trace of the former station at Claxby & Usselby (closed in March 1960) which was located on the far side of the crossing on Park Road. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
DBS 66016 travels south towards Lincoln as it crosses Claxby Gatehouse AHBC with a loaded coal train from Immingham on 9 October 2013. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
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153381 on a Grimsby to Lincoln service nr Holton-le-Moor in rural Lincs in 2011. ...
Roger Geach 14/10/2011
Looking north over the level crossing on the busy A46 road at Holton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire, on 9 October, with the former station building opposite. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
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66230 hauls empty coal hoppers to Immingham, on the approach to Moortown LC and former station site in October 2013. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
The former Moortown station buildings viewed north over the B1205 level crossing on 9 October 2013. The station opened in 1848 and closed in 1965. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
DBS 60019 hauls a long train of empty fuel tank wagons heading north to the Lindsey Oil Refinery over the level crossing at Moortown, Lincolnshire, on ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
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The former station building at North Kelsey on 9 October 2013, looking over the level crossing towards Barnetby. The weak sunshine is just about to ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
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1Z55 the 07.52 Deltic hauled special working from Kings Cross, headed by 55009 Alycidon, has just passed over Rider Lane level crossing at Howsham, ...
David Pesterfield 19/08/2023
1Z55 the 07.52 Deltic hauled special working from Kings Cross, headed by 55009 Alycidon, is seen approaching the home signal protecting Rider Lane ...
David Pesterfield 19/08/2023
DBS 66183 hauls a rake of empty coal wagons north approaching Howsham on 9 October 2013 heading to Immingham. ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
A station building which retains many of its original features following conversion to a private residence is Howsham, Lincolnshire, seen here on 9 ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
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Passing the fine semaphores of Wrawby Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //
A late January afternoon at Wrawby Junction looking west in 1988. ...
Ian Dinmore /01/1988
The signal box at Wrawby Junction, Lincolnshire, in 1989, looking east towards Immingham. ...
Ian Dinmore //1989
Semaphores; looking west at Wrawby Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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Coal on the move to Ratcliffe Power Station on 24th November 2023. 66780 6M81 1345 Immingham to Ratcliffe via Lincoln service at Knabbs Bridge, Melton ...
Roger Geach 24/11/2023
66152 working the 0730 Drax to Immingham empty coal hoppers at New Barnetby on 16th February 2016. ...
Roger Geach 24/01/2023
EMT service to Grimsby Town approaches Barnetby with 153357, having just come off the Lincoln line to the left (behind the unit). In the background ...
John McIntyre 09/10/2013
Freightliner 66602, working ore from Immingham to Scunthorpe iron ore terminal, passing Barnetby on 10th August 2016. ...
Roger Geach 10/08/2016
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The closed station at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, being passed by UK Railtours excursion from London St. Pancras to Cleethorpes on 7th May 2016. This ...
David Bosher 07/05/2016
60074 at Brocklesby with 6M00 Humber to Kingsbury oil tanks on 6 June 2016 ...
Roger Geach 06/06/2016
Passing through the closed Brocklesby station. ...
Ewan Crawford //
66004 brings a part loaded coal train from Immingham off the freight only chord from Ulceby and through the closed station of Brocklesby on 21 May ...
Mark Bartlett 21/05/2012
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A Cleethorpes - Sheffield DMU about to run over the level crossing and into the up platform at Habrough, Lincolnshire, on the western outskirts of ...
Ian Dinmore /05/1986
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View south at Stallingborough from the level crossing in 2004. Since the photograph was taken the signal box (behind the camera) has closed and the ...
Ewan Crawford 01/12/2004
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A Manchester - Cleethorpes 158 service arrives at Grimsby Town in the summer of 1995. ...
Ian Dinmore /08/1995
UK Railtours' return excursion from Cleethorpes to London St. Pancras passing Grimsby Town station, on the evening of Saturday, 7th May 2016. This ...
David Bosher 07/05/2016
Bay platform 3 at Grimsby Town on 13 July 1995. View is east towards Garden Street level crossing and signal box. The locking room of the listed box, ...
Ian Dinmore 13/07/1995
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60001 at Ulceby on 6 June 2016 with 6E54, the Kingsbury to Humber oil tanks. ...
Roger Geach 06/06/2016
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Thornton Abbey looking towards Barton on Humber in September 2010. The signals have been replaced since i took this picture. ...
Roger Geach 12/09/2010
The signs stand out in the sun at Thornton Abbey. ...
Roger Geach 12/09/2010
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Goxhill station, with the signal box and crossing, all very quiet on 12th September 2010. ...
Roger Geach 12/09/2010
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The signal box at Barrow Road, New Holland, seen in 2010. ...
Roger Geach 12/09/2010
Barrow Road Crossing signal box, as seen from a train departing from (new) New Holland station on the Barton-on-Humber branch. The start of the old ...
Mark Bartlett 21/05/2012
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New Holland Town signal box on 17th June 1981, one week before the end of services along New Holland Pier and withdrawal of the ferries across the ...
David Bosher 17/06/1981
The old signal box at New Holland Town station, on the south bank of the Humber, photographed in 1975. ...
Ian Dinmore //1975
A class 114 DMU at New Holland Town station in August 1970 about to set off for Cleethorpes, having connected with the ferry from Hull. ...
Bill Jamieson 21/08/1970
A DMU for Cleethorpes heads south east away from New Holland Town in December 1974. ...
Bill Jamieson 14/12/1974
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British Railways Eastern Region running-in board at New Holland Pier on 17th June 1981, one week before closure and the end of the Humber ferries with ...
David Bosher 17/06/1981
A rather grainy image of a Derby DMU, heading away from the camera, running 'wrong line' as it approaches New Holland Pier station on 17th June 1981. ...
David Bosher 17/06/1981
Dying days at the near derelict New Holland Pier station, on 17th June 1981. It closed one week later with the end of the ferries across the Humber ...
David Bosher 17/06/1981
The signal box on New Holland Pier, photographed in 1975. The 1849 station finally closed in 1981, along with the ferry service to Hull Victoria Pier, ...
Ian Dinmore //1975
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