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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Railway_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Great Central Railway (disambiguation)">Great Central Railway (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">Great Central Railway</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg/200px-Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg/300px-Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg/400px-Great_Central_Railway_Coat_of_Arms.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1151" data-file-height="1070" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg/250px-Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg/375px-Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg/500px-Map_of_Great_Central_Railway_1920.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1934" data-file-height="2150" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">1920 map of the railway</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG/250px-Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG" decoding="async" width="250" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG/375px-Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG/500px-Marylebone_station_frontage_-_DSCF0473.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Marylebone station. The London terminus of the Great Central Railway.</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Overview</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Dates of operation</th><td class="infobox-data">1897<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1897</span>)</span>–1922<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1922</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">London and North Eastern Railway</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Technical</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Track_gauge" title="Track gauge">Track gauge</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="nowrap">4 ft <span class="frac">8<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> in</span> (<span class="nowrap">1,435 mm</span>) <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Standard_gauge" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard gauge">standard gauge</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">852 miles 15 chains (1,371.5 km) (1919)<sup id="cite_ref-RYB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RYB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Track length</th><td class="infobox-data">2,688 miles 40 chains (4,326.7 km) (1919)<sup id="cite_ref-RYB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RYB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Great Central Railway</b> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> was formed when the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a> changed its name in 1897, anticipating the opening in 1899 of its <a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Main_Line" title="Great Central Main Line">London Extension</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 January 1923, the company was <a href="/wiki/Railways_Act_1921" title="Railways Act 1921">grouped</a> into the <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">London and North Eastern Railway</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_name">New name</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: New name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On assuming its new title, the Great Central Railway had a main line from <a href="/wiki/Manchester_London_Road_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester London Road Station">Manchester London Road Station</a> via <a href="/wiki/Penistone_railway_station" title="Penistone railway station">Penistone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Victoria_railway_station" title="Sheffield Victoria railway station">Sheffield Victoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brigg_railway_station" title="Brigg railway station">Brigg</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grimsby_Town_railway_station" title="Grimsby Town railway station">Grimsby</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cleethorpes_railway_station" title="Cleethorpes railway station">Cleethorpes</a>. A second line left the line at Penistone and served <a href="/wiki/Barnsley_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Barnsley railway station">Barnsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doncaster_railway_station" title="Doncaster railway station">Doncaster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scunthorpe_railway_station" title="Scunthorpe railway station">Scunthorpe</a>, before rejoining the Grimsby line at <a href="/wiki/Barnetby_railway_station" title="Barnetby railway station">Barnetby</a>. Other lines linked Sheffield to Barnsley (via <a href="/wiki/Chapeltown_railway_station" title="Chapeltown railway station">Chapeltown</a>) and Doncaster (via <a href="/wiki/Rotherham_Central_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotherham Central railway station">Rotherham</a>) and also <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_railway_station" title="Lincoln railway station">Lincoln</a> and Wrawby Junction. Branch lines in north Lincolnshire ran to <a href="/wiki/Barton-upon-Humber" title="Barton-upon-Humber">Barton-upon-Humber</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Holland,_North_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="New Holland, North Lincolnshire">New Holland</a> and served ironstone quarries in the Scunthorpe area. In the Manchester area, lines ran to <a href="/wiki/Stalybridge" title="Stalybridge">Stalybridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glossop" title="Glossop">Glossop</a>. </p><p>In the 1890s, the MS&LR began constructing its Derbyshire lines,<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 128">: 128 </span></sup> the first part of its push southwards. Leaving its east–west main line at Woodhouse Junction, some 5½ miles south-east of Sheffield, the line headed towards Nottingham, a golden opportunity to tap into colliery traffic in the north of the county before reaching the city. A loop line was built to serve its station in <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_Central_railway_station" title="Chesterfield Central railway station">Chesterfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 152">: 152 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Coat_of_arms">Coat of arms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Coat of arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Great Central Railway was the first railway granted a <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a>. It was granted on 25 February 1898 by the <a href="/wiki/Garter_King_of_Arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Garter King of Arms">Garter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarenceux_King_of_Arms" title="Clarenceux King of Arms">Clarenceux</a> and <a href="/wiki/Norroy_King_of_Arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Norroy King of Arms">Norroy</a> Kings of Arms as: </p> <blockquote><p><a href="/wiki/Argent" title="Argent">Argent</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Cross_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross (heraldry)">cross</a> <a href="/wiki/Gules" title="Gules">gules</a> voided of the field between two wings in chief <a href="/wiki/Sable_(heraldry)" title="Sable (heraldry)">sable</a> and as many daggers erect, in base of the second, in the <a href="/wiki/Fess_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Fess Point">fesse point</a> a <a href="/wiki/Morion_(helmet)" title="Morion (helmet)">morion</a> winged of the third, on a <a href="/wiki/Chief_(heraldry)" title="Chief (heraldry)">chief</a> also of the second a <a href="/wiki/Pale_(heraldry)" title="Pale (heraldry)">pale</a> of the first thereon eight arrows <a href="/wiki/Saltire" title="Saltire">saltirewise</a> banded also of the third, between on the <a href="/wiki/Dexter_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dexter (heraldry)">dexter</a> side three <a href="/wiki/Bendlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Bendlet">bendlets</a> enhanced and on the sinister a fleur de lis or. And for the Crest on a Wreath of the Colours A representation of the front of a locomotive engine between two wings Or as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the said Corporation of the Great Central Railway Company on seals, shields, banners or otherwise according to the Laws of Arms.</p></blockquote> <p>The design included elements representing <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> (<i>gules ... three bendlets enhanced ... or</i>); <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> (<i>eight arrows saltirewise banded</i>); <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_England" title="Lincoln, England">Lincoln</a> (<i>gules ... a fleur de lis or</i>); <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a> (<i>two wings</i>); and <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">London</a> (<i>Argent ... a cross gules ... daggers erect</i>). Also represented was <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)" title="Mercury (mythology)">Mercury</a> (<i>a morion winged [sable]</i>). It was used on locomotives and coaches.<sup id="cite_ref-Dow297_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dow297-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">London and North Eastern Railway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/British_Transport_Commission" title="British Transport Commission">British Transport Commission</a>, successors of the GCR, were granted arms of their own incorporating the GCR motto <i>Forward</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dow297_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dow297-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Railway_(heritage_railway)" title="Great Central Railway (heritage railway)">The Great Central Railway (1976) Company Limited</a> applied to the College of Arms as the successors to British Transport Commission (Loughborough to Birstall Light Railway) for permission to utilise the coat of arms of the GCR. A new design incorporating the same armorial components, updated in the modern style was proposed, but was rejected in favour of the original.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_"London_extension""><span id="The_.22London_extension.22"></span>The "London extension"</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The "London extension""><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Main_Line" title="Great Central Main Line">Great Central Main Line</a></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">United Kingdom legislation</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size:100%"><span style="font-size:125%">Great Central Railway Act 1897</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">Act of Parliament</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/140px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="140" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/210px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg/280px-Coat_of_Arms_of_the_United_Kingdom_%281837%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1550" /></span></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Short_and_long_titles" title="Short and long titles">Long title</a></th><td class="infobox-data description">An Act to enable the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company to make new Railways to confer further powers upon that Company the Cheshire Lines Committee and the North Wales and Liverpool Railway Committee to make further provision with reference to a Joint Station at Nottingham with the Great Northern Railway Company to alter the name of the Company to provide for the conversion of the Company's Ordinary Stock and for other purposes.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Citation_of_United_Kingdom_legislation" title="Citation of United Kingdom legislation">Citation</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/60_%26_61_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="60 & 61 Vict.">60 & 61 Vict.</a> c. liv</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;">Dates</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Royal_assent" title="Royal assent">Royal assent</a></th><td class="infobox-data">3 June 1897</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/60-61/54/pdfs/ukla_18970054_en.pdf">Text of statute as originally enacted</a></th></tr></tbody></table> <p>The MS&LR obtained an <a href="/wiki/Act_of_Parliament_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Act of Parliament (UK)">act of Parliament</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway_Act_1893" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1893">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1893</a> (<a href="/wiki/56_%26_57_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="56 & 57 Vict.">56 & 57 Vict.</a> c. lxxix), giving approval for its <a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Main_Line" title="Great Central Main Line">extension to London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 32">: 32 </span></sup> On 1 August 1897, the railway's name was changed to <b>Great Central Railway</b> by the <b><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238216509">.mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#b1d2ff}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .vanchor>:target~.vanchor-text{background-color:#0f4dc9}}</style><span class="vanchor"><span id="Great_Central_Railway_Act_1897"></span><span class="vanchor-text">Great Central Railway Act 1897</span></span></b> (<a href="/wiki/60_%26_61_Vict." class="mw-redirect" title="60 & 61 Vict.">60 & 61 Vict.</a> c. liv). Building work started in 1895, and the new line, 92 miles (147 km) in length, opened for coal traffic on 25 July 1898, for passenger traffic on 15 March 1899,<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 132">: 132 </span></sup> and for goods traffic on 11 April 1899.<sup id="cite_ref-Simpson_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Simpson-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was designed for high-speed running throughout. </p><p>It is a commonly held myth that the nomenclature for the direction of travel on the new line was the opposite of standard UK railway practice, in that trains travelling to London were referred to as "down" trains, and those travelling away from the capital as "up" trains. It is supposed that it was a result of the GCR's headquarters at the time being in Manchester. The <a href="/wiki/Milestone#Railway_mileposts" title="Milestone">mileposts</a> on the Great Central did start at zero at <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_station" title="Manchester Piccadilly station">Manchester London Road</a> and increase down the main line via <a href="/wiki/Woodhead_line" title="Woodhead line">Woodhead</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Victoria_railway_station" title="Sheffield Victoria railway station">Sheffield Victoria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woodhouse_railway_station" title="Woodhouse railway station">Woodhouse</a>, and then down the London Extension to <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_station" title="Marylebone station">Marylebone</a>, 205 route miles from Manchester. </p><p>However, official documents dated 21 July 1898, detailing the method of working of mineral trains on the London Extension (used to help consolidate the new earthworks before passenger traffic began in March 1899), clearly show that the direction of travel on the new line was conventional – up to London, down to Annesley. Furthermore, contemporary descriptions in newspapers of the trains running on the new line are explicit that up trains ran to London and down trains away from it. That made the Great Central unusual amongst British railways in that its down trains went towards its "milepost zero" and up trains went away from it, but the convention of up and down trains in relation to London was retained. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marylebone_station_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Marylebone_station_01.jpg/220px-Marylebone_station_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Marylebone_station_01.jpg/330px-Marylebone_station_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Marylebone_station_01.jpg/440px-Marylebone_station_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Marylebone station frontage</figcaption></figure> <p>The new line was built from <a href="/wiki/Annesley" title="Annesley">Annesley</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> to join the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Railway" title="Metropolitan Railway">Metropolitan Railway</a> (MetR) extension to <a href="/wiki/Quainton_Road_railway_station" title="Quainton Road railway station">Quainton Road</a>, where the line became joint MetR/GCR owned (after 1903), and returned to GCR tracks at Canfield Place, near <a href="/wiki/Finchley_Road_tube_station" title="Finchley Road tube station">Finchley Road</a>, for the final section to <a href="/wiki/Marylebone_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Marylebone railway station">Marylebone</a>. In 1903, new rails were laid parallel to the Metropolitan Railway from Harrow to the junction north of Finchley Road, enabling more traffic to use Marylebone. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_history">Later history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1902, the company introduced an express service from Bournemouth and Southampton to York and Newcastle upon Tyne.<sup id="cite_ref-FHSCH_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FHSCH-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A year later, it began a through running express from Dover and Folkestone to Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford and Manchester, avoiding London and opening up the South Coast to the Midlands and the North. The route from Banbury to Reading was over <a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western</a> track and from there it traversed South Eastern Railway track via Aldershot and Guildford to Redhill and on to Folkestone and Dover.<sup id="cite_ref-FHSCH_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FHSCH-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the same time, the Great Central was gaining a reputation for fast services to and from London. In May 1903, the company promoted its services as <i>Rapid Travel in Luxury</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Sheffield without a stop</i>, adopted on 1 July 1903,<sup id="cite_ref-SDT_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDT-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> became a trademark for the company, with 163.75 miles (263.53 km) run in three hours, an average of nearly 55 miles per hour (89 km/h).<sup id="cite_ref-FHSCH_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FHSCH-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Slip_coach" title="Slip coach">Slip coaches</a> were provided for passengers for Leicester and Nottingham.<sup id="cite_ref-SDT_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SDT-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 April 1906, an "<a href="/wiki/Great_Western_and_Great_Central_Joint_Railway" title="Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway">alternative main line</a>" route from <a href="/wiki/Grendon_Underwood" title="Grendon Underwood">Grendon Underwood</a> Junction near Aylesbury to Neasden in north-west London opened.<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 33">: 33 </span></sup> The line was joint GCR/<a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">GWR</a> between <a href="/wiki/Ashendon_Junction" title="Ashendon Junction">Ashendon Junction</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Ruislip_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="South Ruislip railway station">Northolt Junction</a>. It was built to increase traffic on the GCR by overcoming capacity constraints on the Metropolitan extension and as a result of disagreements between the MetR and GCR after the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Watkin" title="Edward Watkin">Sir Edward Watkin</a> due to poor health. By the time the line was built, the companies had settled their differences. </p><p>On 1 January 1923, under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Railways_Act_1921" title="Railways Act 1921">Railways Act 1921</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-act_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-act-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the GCR amalgamated with several other railways to create the <a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway" title="London and North Eastern Railway">London and North Eastern Railway</a>. </p><p>The GCR line was the last complete mainline railway to be built in Britain until section one of <a href="/wiki/High_Speed_1" title="High Speed 1">High Speed 1</a> opened in 2003 and was also one of the shortest-lived <a href="/wiki/Inter-city_rail" title="Inter-city rail">intercity</a> railway lines. Yet in its early years, its steam-hauled Sheffield expresses were the fastest in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg/220px-Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg/330px-Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg/440px-Last_train_at_Rugby_Central-2304622.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1465" data-file-height="1228" /></a><figcaption>The last train at Rugby Central on 3 May 1969</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Closure">Closure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Closure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The express services from London to destinations beyond Nottingham were withdrawn in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 34">: 34 </span></sup> The line was closed to passenger trains between Aylesbury and Rugby on 3 September 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Leleux_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Leleux-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 34">: 34 </span></sup> A diesel multiple-unit service ran between <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Central_railway_station" title="Rugby Central railway station">Rugby Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Arkwright_Street_railway_station" title="Nottingham Arkwright Street railway station">Nottingham Arkwright Street</a> until withdrawal on 3 May 1969. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Line_retention">Line retention</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Line retention"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 1996, <a href="/wiki/Chiltern_Railways" title="Chiltern Railways">Chiltern Railways</a> has used the Great Central lines south of Aylesbury for local services into London, including the alternative route south of Haddenham and widened lines south of Neasden for its intercity main line from Birmingham to London. In 2008, in a scheme partly funded by the <a href="/wiki/Department_for_Transport" title="Department for Transport">Department for Transport</a>, about three miles of line north of Aylesbury as far as <a href="/wiki/Aylesbury_Vale_Parkway_railway_station" title="Aylesbury Vale Parkway railway station">Aylesbury Vale Parkway</a> was brought back into passenger use. None of these lines are currently electrified. </p><p>Work started in 2019 on developing <a href="/wiki/East_West_Rail" title="East West Rail">East West Rail</a>, which will extend passenger services north of Aylesbury Vale Parkway through <a href="/wiki/Quainton_Road_railway_station" title="Quainton Road railway station">Quainton Road</a> to meet a renewed <a href="/wiki/Bicester_Village_railway_station" title="Bicester Village railway station">Bicester Village</a> to <a href="/wiki/Bletchley_railway_station" title="Bletchley railway station">Bletchley</a> section of the old '<a href="/wiki/Varsity_Line" title="Varsity Line">Varsity Line</a>' just beyond the site of the <a href="/wiki/Calvert_railway_station" title="Calvert railway station">former Great Central station</a> at <a href="/wiki/Calvert,_Buckinghamshire" title="Calvert, Buckinghamshire">Calvert</a>. Services are expected to start in the mid-2020s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Acquisitions">Acquisitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Acquisitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Lancashire,_Derbyshire_and_East_Coast_Railway" title="Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway">Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway</a> (LD&ECR) opened in 1897, to link the coalfields with deep-water ports, and was intended to run from <a href="/wiki/Sutton-on-Sea" title="Sutton-on-Sea">Sutton-on-Sea</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> to <a href="/wiki/Warrington" title="Warrington">Warrington</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>. In the event only the section between Pyewipe Junction, near <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln, Lincolnshire">Lincoln</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield_Market_Place_railway_station" title="Chesterfield Market Place railway station">Chesterfield Market Place station</a> and some branch lines were built. It was purchased by the GCR on 1 January 1907,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to provide a better link between the London main line and the east coast.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrexham,_Mold_and_Connah%27s_Quay_Railway" title="Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway">Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway</a> was purchased 1 January 1905.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Wales_and_Liverpool_Railway" title="North Wales and Liverpool Railway">North Wales and Liverpool Railway</a> was acquired at the same time.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigan_Junction_Railways" title="Wigan Junction Railways"><i>Wigan Junction Railway</i></a> was bought on 1 January 1906, as was the <a href="/wiki/Liverpool,_St_Helens_%26_South_Lancashire_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Liverpool, St Helens & South Lancashire Railway">Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Lindsey_Light_Railway" title="North Lindsey Light Railway">North Lindsey Light Railway</a> <a href="/wiki/Scunthorpe" title="Scunthorpe">Scunthorpe</a> to <a href="/wiki/Whitton,_North_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Whitton, North Lincolnshire">Whitton</a> opened throughout on 1 December 1910 and was worked by the GCR. It carried passengers, although its main freight was ironstone.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Joint_working">Joint working</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Joint working"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Apart from the three branches in the Liverpool area, the GCR lines in the north of England were all east of Manchester but GCR trains could run from coast to coast by means of joint working with other railways. The largest of those utilized in this way were those under the <a href="/wiki/Cheshire_Lines_Committee" title="Cheshire Lines Committee">Cheshire Lines Committee</a>: the other participants were the <a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland Railway</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Great_Britain)" title="Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)">Great Northern Railway</a>, taking in both Liverpool and <a href="/wiki/Southport" title="Southport">Southport</a>. Other joint undertakings were (west to east): </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_South_Junction_and_Altrincham_Railway" title="Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway">Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway</a> (GCR/LNWR)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oldham,_Ashton_and_Guide_Bridge_Railway" title="Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway">Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway</a> (GCR/LNWR)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway" title="Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway">Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway</a></i> (GCR/NSR); including its <a href="/wiki/Hayfield,_Derbyshire" title="Hayfield, Derbyshire">Hayfield</a> branch</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire_Joint_Railway" title="South Yorkshire Joint Railway">South Yorkshire Joint Railway</a> (GCR, GNR, <a href="/wiki/Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway" title="Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway">Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway</a>, MR and <a href="/wiki/North_Eastern_Railway_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="North Eastern Railway (UK)">North Eastern Railway</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheffield_District_Railway" title="Sheffield District Railway">Sheffield District Railway</a>(GCR and MidR)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/West_Riding_and_Grimsby_Railway" title="West Riding and Grimsby Railway">West Riding and Grimsby Joint Railway</a></i> (GCR/GNR) - giving access to <a href="/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield">Wakefield</a> and thence to <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hull_and_Barnsley_and_Great_Central_Joint_Railway" title="Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway">Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway</a> - opened 1916 for freight traffic only.</li></ul> <p>There were also joint lines in the south: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aylesbury_railway_station" title="Aylesbury railway station">Aylesbury Station Joint Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_and_Great_Central_Joint_Railway" title="Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway">Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway</a><sup id="cite_ref-Dow_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dow-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>Banbury Junction Railway</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_Great_Central_Joint_Railway" title="Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway">Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li>Watford Joint Railway</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_officers">Key officers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Key officers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For those in position before 1899, dates are as served for the MS&LR. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_Managers">General Managers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: General Managers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1886–1902 <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Pollitt" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Pollitt">Sir William Pollitt</a> (knighted 1899, later Lord Stuart of Wortley)</li> <li>1902–1922 <a href="/wiki/Sam_Fay" title="Sam Fay">Sir Samuel Fay</a><sup id="cite_ref-Dow_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dow-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 348">: 348 </span></sup> (knighted 1912)<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Locomotive_Engineer">Locomotive Engineer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Locomotive Engineer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1894–1900 <a href="/wiki/Harry_Pollitt_(engineer)" title="Harry Pollitt (engineer)">Harry Pollitt</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 173">: 173 </span></sup></li> <li>1900–1902 <a href="/wiki/John_G._Robinson" title="John G. Robinson">John George Robinson</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_Mechanical_Engineer">Chief Mechanical Engineer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Chief Mechanical Engineer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1902–1922 <a href="/wiki/John_G._Robinson" title="John G. Robinson">John George Robinson</a>, for whom the post was created</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="GCR_locomotives">GCR locomotives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: GCR locomotives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hugh_llewelyn_506_(6961065414).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg/220px-Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg/330px-Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg/440px-Hugh_llewelyn_506_%286961065414%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>No. 506 <i>Butler-Henderson</i>, the sole surviving <a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_11F" title="GCR Class 11F">GCR Class 11F</a> locomotive</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:63601_at_Leicester_North_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg/220px-63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg/330px-63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg/440px-63601_at_Leicester_North_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3456" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>No. 63601, the sole surviving <a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_8K" title="GCR Class 8K">GCR Class 8K</a> locomotive</figcaption></figure> <p>These could generally be divided into those intended for passenger work, especially those used on the London Extension and those for the heavy freight work.<sup id="cite_ref-Baxter_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baxter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>See <a href="/wiki/Locomotives_of_the_Great_Central_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Locomotives of the Great Central Railway">Locomotives of the Great Central Railway</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pollitt's_locomotives"><span id="Pollitt.27s_locomotives"></span>Pollitt's locomotives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Pollitt's locomotives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Taken over from the MS&LR, mainly of class F2, 2-4-2 tank locomotives, and also classes D5 and D6 4-4-0 locomotives.<sup id="cite_ref-Baxter_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baxter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Robinson_locomotives">Robinson locomotives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Robinson locomotives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During Robinson's tenure, many of the larger express passenger engines came into being:<sup id="cite_ref-Baxter_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baxter-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Classes B1-B9: 4-6-0 tender locomotives</li> <li>Classes C4/5: 4-4-2 tender locomotives</li> <li>Classes <a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_11F" title="GCR Class 11F">D9-11</a>: 4-4-0 tender locomotives</li> <li>Class J13: 0-6-0T</li> <li>Classes L1/L3: 2-6-4T</li> <li>Classes <a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_8K" title="GCR Class 8K">O4/5</a>: 2-8-0, heavy freight locos, including <a href="/wiki/Railway_Operating_Division" title="Railway Operating Division">ROD</a> engines</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_8A" title="GCR Class 8A">GCR Class 8A</a> (LNER Class Q4) 0-8-0 heavy freight locomotive</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_8H" title="GCR Class 8H">GCR Class 8H</a> (LNER Class S1) <a href="/wiki/0-8-4T" title="0-8-4T">0-8-4T</a> used at <a href="/wiki/Wath_marshalling_yard" title="Wath marshalling yard">Wath marshalling yard</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Preserved_locomotives">Preserved locomotives</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Preserved locomotives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Only two GCR locomotives are preserved: </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>Image</th> <th>GCR No.</th> <th>GCR Class</th> <th>Type</th> <th>Manufacturer</th> <th>Serial No.</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG/100px-GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG/150px-GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG/200px-GCR_O4_63601_at_Doncaster_Works.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td> <td>102</td> <td><a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_8K" title="GCR Class 8K">8K Class</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/2-8-0" title="2-8-0">2-8-0</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gorton_locomotive_works" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorton locomotive works">GCR Gorton</a></td> <td></td> <td>January<br />1912</td> <td align="left">At the <a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Railway_(preserved)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Central Railway (preserved)">Great Central Railway</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Butler-Henderson_(7074605287).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg/100px-Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg/150px-Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg/200px-Butler-Henderson_%287074605287%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4504" data-file-height="2100" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td> <td>506</td> <td><a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_11F" title="GCR Class 11F">11F Class</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/4-4-0" title="4-4-0">4-4-0</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gorton_locomotive_works" class="mw-redirect" title="Gorton locomotive works">GCR Gorton</a></td> <td></td> <td>January<br />1920</td> <td align="left">On static display at <a href="/wiki/Barrow_Hill_Roundhouse" title="Barrow Hill Roundhouse">Barrow Hill Roundhouse</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>In 2019 there were plans to build a replica steam locomotive - a <a href="/wiki/GCR_Class_2" title="GCR Class 2">GCR Class 2</a> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/4-4-0" title="4-4-0">4-4-0</a></span> (known as the LNER D7 Class) Numbered 567 at <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Heritage_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham Heritage Railway">Ruddington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rolling_stock">Rolling stock</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Rolling stock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coaching_stock">Coaching stock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Coaching stock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following GCR coaches are preserved. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Number & Name </th> <th>Description </th> <th>History & Current Status </th> <th>Livery </th> <th>Owner(s) </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Photograph </th></tr> <tr> <td>No. 946<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">MSLR</a> six-wheel 5 compartment Third </td> <td>Fully restored after a very long restoration. Usually on display in the Mountsorrel Museum. </td> <td>GCR Chocolate and Cream </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust </td> <td>1888 </td> <td>~ </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 373<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">MSLR</a> six-wheel Third </td> <td>Awaiting extensive restoration, the body has been dismantled and flatpacked. </td> <td>N/A </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>~ </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 1076 </td> <td>6-wheel third </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">MSLR</a> for MSJAR. Operational, restored as an open saloon. </td> <td>GCR chocolate & cream. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire_Railway_Centre" title="Buckinghamshire Railway Centre">Buckinghamshire Railway Centre</a> </td> <td>1890 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MSLR_3rd_No._1076_(26515835710).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg/180px-MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg/270px-MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg/360px-MSLR_3rd_No._1076_%2826515835710%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1768" data-file-height="1320" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 1663<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Robinson Clerestory lavatory brake composite </td> <td>Only the body survives though being the oldest surviving Great Central carriage this is unsurprising. The body is mounted on the underframe of an ex. LMS BG, which has now become its permanent rolling chassis.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1903 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG/150px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG/225px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG/300px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre1663.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png/150px-GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png/225px-GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png/300px-GCR_1663_Brake_Composite_Lavatory.png 2x" data-file-width="430" data-file-height="263" /></a></span> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 5~~<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Robinson Suburban brake third </td> <td>Body survives in good hands but it will require a new underframe and serious restoration work to return to service. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1905 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png/150px-GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png/225px-GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png/300px-GCR_Suburban_Brake_body.png 2x" data-file-width="327" data-file-height="258" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 793<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Robinson Suburban third </td> <td>At present the only Great Central coach on the south section. In store at <a href="/wiki/Swithland_Sidings" title="Swithland Sidings">Swithland Sidings</a> with a cosmetically restored body, which should prevent further deterioration. </td> <td>GCR chocolate & cream. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Great_Central_Railway_(heritage_railway)#Great_Central_Railway_PLC" title="Great Central Railway (heritage railway)">Great Central Railway Plc</a>. </td> <td>1905 </td> <td>~ </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 799<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Robinson Suburban third </td> <td>Awaiting major restoration which will require a lot of new bodywork to be manufactured. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1905 </td> <td>~ </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 228<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>'Barnum' open third </td> <td>Undergoing restoration at Ruddington. It will be converted into a first class <a href="/wiki/Bar_car" title="Bar car">bar car</a> in due course. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1910 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG/150px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG/225px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG/300px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre228.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 664<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>'Barnum' open third </td> <td>Will be restored when more accommodation has been built. It is intended to convert it into a <a href="/wiki/Dining_car" title="Dining car">dining car</a>. </td> <td>Varnished teak. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1910 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_(9396550796).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg/150px-GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg/225px-GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg/300px-GCR_Barnum_Open_Third_TO_No.664_%289396550796%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="968" data-file-height="661" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 666<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>'Barnum' open third </td> <td>Sheeted up as protection from the elements. It will be restored when more accommodation has been built and 664 has been completed. It is intended to convert it into a <a href="/wiki/Dining_car" title="Dining car">dining car</a>. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_Railway_Museum" title="National Railway Museum">National Railway Museum</a>. </td> <td>1910 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG/150px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG/225px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG/300px-NottinghamTransportHeritageCentre666.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 695<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>'Barnum' open brake third </td> <td>Awaiting restoration, which is planned to incorporate a kitchen where the brake end used to be, so it will complement the rest of the Barnum set. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td>GCR Rolling Stock Trust. </td> <td>1911 </td> <td><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_695_Brake_Third_Open.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/GCR_695_Brake_Third_Open.png/118px-GCR_695_Brake_Third_Open.png" decoding="async" width="118" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/GCR_695_Brake_Third_Open.png 1.5x" data-file-width="139" data-file-height="177" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td>No. 652 </td> <td>Suburban Brake Third </td> <td>Built in 1916. Arrived at Quainton in 1997. Restoration started while on display inside museum, doors are inside the carriage with GCR numbering and lettering. </td> <td>N/A. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire_Railway_Centre" title="Buckinghamshire Railway Centre">Buckinghamshire Railway Centre</a> </td> <td>1916 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:GCR_652_brake_third.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GCR_652_brake_third.jpg/180px-GCR_652_brake_third.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GCR_652_brake_third.jpg/270px-GCR_652_brake_third.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/GCR_652_brake_third.jpg/360px-GCR_652_brake_third.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goods_wagons_and_freight_stock">Goods wagons and freight stock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Goods wagons and freight stock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Number </th> <th>Type </th> <th>Builder </th> <th>Diagram and lot no. </th> <th>Built </th> <th>Location </th></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td>Single bolster </td> <td>Birmingham, <a href="/wiki/Metro-Cammell" title="Metro-Cammell">Metro-Cammell</a> </td> <td> </td> <td>1920 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shildon_Locomotion_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Shildon Locomotion Museum">Shildon</a><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (available for transfer out of the collection 2020)<sup id="cite_ref-Transfer20_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Transfer20-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cranes">Cranes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cranes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Original company </th> <th>Number </th> <th>Type </th> <th>Status/Notes </th> <th>Location </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_Great_Central_Joint_Railway" title="Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway">M&GCJR</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>4-wheel Hand Crane </td> <td>Built in 1914. Only M&GCJR-owned rail vehicle. Being restored.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The original match wagon is not usable right now<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (October 2019)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup>, so an LMS wagon underframe is in its place. </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire_Railway_Centre" title="Buckinghamshire Railway Centre">Buckinghamshire Railway Centre</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_stations">Major stations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Major stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marylebone_station" title="Marylebone station">London Marylebone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_station" title="Manchester Piccadilly station">Manchester London Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nottingham_Victoria_railway_station" title="Nottingham Victoria railway station">Nottingham Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheffield_Victoria_railway_station" title="Sheffield Victoria railway station">Sheffield Victoria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leicester_Central_railway_station" title="Leicester Central railway station">Leicester Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rugby_Central_railway_station" title="Rugby Central railway station">Rugby Central</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wath_marshalling_yard">Wath marshalling yard</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Wath marshalling yard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Wath_marshalling_yard" title="Wath marshalling yard">Wath marshalling yard</a></div> <p>The marshalling yard at <a href="/wiki/Wath-upon-Dearne" class="mw-redirect" title="Wath-upon-Dearne">Wath-upon-Dearne</a> opened in November 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-GCR_Trust_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GCR_Trust-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was designed to cope with coal trains, full and empty; it was worked with electro-pneumatic signalling. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accidents_and_incidents">Accidents and incidents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Accidents and incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Penistone_rail_accidents" title="Penistone rail accidents">Penistone rail accidents</a></div></dd></dl> <ul><li>On 30 March 1889, an excursion train was derailed at <a href="/wiki/Penistone" title="Penistone">Penistone</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> due to a failure of an axle on the locomotive hauling it. A mail train ran into the wreckage at low speed. One person was killed and 61 were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-Earnshaw7_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earnshaw7-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 17 November 1899, GCR goods guard, Charles Harry Bennion was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Staveley_Town_railway_station" title="Staveley Town railway station">Staveley Town Railway station, Derbyshire</a>. At approximately 08.30 am his goods train from <a href="/wiki/Staveley,_Derbyshire" title="Staveley, Derbyshire">Staveley</a> to <a href="/wiki/Frodingham,_Lincolnshire" title="Frodingham, Lincolnshire">Frodingham</a> was working through the thick fog when it hit two <a href="/wiki/Light_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Light engine">‘light engines’</a> due to a 'signalling error'. Charles’ injuries were fatal and he died instantly.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 23 December 1904, an express passenger train was derailed at <a href="/wiki/Aylesbury_railway_station" title="Aylesbury railway station">Aylesbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a> due to excessive speed on a curve. Another express passenger train ran into the wreckage at low speed. Four people were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-Trevena2_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevena2-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 2 February 1908, the driver of a freight train sneezed, his head collided with that of his fireman, knocking both of them out. Due to excessive speed, a van in the train derailed approaching <a href="/wiki/Notton_and_Royston_railway_station" title="Notton and Royston railway station">Notton and Royston</a> station, <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> and the train overran signals there. It derailed completely at <a href="/wiki/Ryhill_railway_station" title="Ryhill railway station">Ryhill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Earnshaw8_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earnshaw8-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>On 13 December 1911, a freight train ran away and was derailed at <a href="/wiki/Wombwell_Central_railway_station" title="Wombwell Central railway station">Wombwell Central</a> station, <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a>. Both locomotive crew were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-Earnshaw8_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Earnshaw8-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>About 1913, a coal train was derailed at Torside, <a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a>. The crew of the locomotive may have been overcome by fumes in the <a href="/wiki/Woodhead_Tunnel" title="Woodhead Tunnel">Woodhead Tunnel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Trevenna_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trevenna-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Docks">Docks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Docks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grimsby_docks">Grimsby docks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Grimsby docks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a>, dubbed the "largest fishing port in the world" in the early 20th century, owed its prosperity to the ownership by the GCR and its forebear, the MS&LR. Coal and timber were among its biggest cargoes. The port had two main docks: the <i>Alexandra Dock</i> (named for <a href="/wiki/Queen_Alexandra" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Alexandra">Queen Alexandra</a>) and the <i>Royal Dock</i> which was completed in 1852, linked by the Union Dock. The total area of docks was 104.25 acres (42 ha). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Immingham_Dock">Immingham Dock</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Immingham Dock"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Immingham_Dock" class="mw-redirect" title="Immingham Dock">Immingham Dock</a></div> <p>Completed in 1912, this dock covered 71 acres (29 ha) and was mainly concerned with the movement of coal. On 22 July 2012, the docks held an open day to celebrate 100 years of operation.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ships">Ships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Great Central Railway operated a number of ships. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Ship </th> <th scope="col">Launched </th> <th scope="col">Tonnage<br />(GRT) </th> <th scope="col">Notes and references </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Accrington_(1910)" title="SS Accrington (1910)">SS <i>Accrington</i></a> </td> <td>1910 </td> <td>1,629 </td> <td>Built in 1910 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Sold to Clayton and Davie Limited.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Ashton_(1884)" title="SS Ashton (1884)">SS <i>Ashton</i></a> </td> <td>1884 </td> <td>1,007 </td> <td>Built in 1884 by E. Withy and Company, Hartlepool for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sold to Cadeby Steam Ship Company in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Barton_(1891)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Barton (1891) (page does not exist)">SS <i>Barton</i></a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td>123 </td> <td>A tug built in 1891 by Hepple and Company for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Based at Grimsby Docks. Scrapped in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Blackburn_(1910)" title="SS Blackburn (1910)">SS <i>Blackburn</i></a> </td> <td>1910 </td> <td>1,634 </td> <td>Built in 1910 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Sank in a collision with <i>Rook</i> off the Norfolk coast in December 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PS_Brocklesby_(1912)" title="PS Brocklesby (1912)">PS <i>Brocklesby</i></a> </td> <td>1912 </td> <td>508 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the New Holland to Hull ferry service. Sold in 1935 to the Redcliffe Shipping Company and renamed <i>Highland Queen</i>. Scrapped in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Bury" title="SS Bury">SS <i>Bury</i></a> </td> <td>1911 </td> <td>1,634 </td> <td>Built in 1910 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Scrapped in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Chester_(1884)" title="SS Chester (1884)">SS <i>Chester</i></a> </td> <td>1884 </td> <td>1,010 </td> <td>Built in 1884 by E. Withy and Company, Hartlepool for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sunk in the River Elbe in September 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Chesterfield_(1913)" title="SS Chesterfield (1913)">SS <i>Chesterfield</i></a> </td> <td>1913 </td> <td>1,013 </td> <td>Built in 1913 by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a>. Lost in 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PS_Cleethorpes_(1903)" title="PS Cleethorpes (1903)">PS <i>Cleethorpes</i></a> </td> <td>1903 </td> <td>302 </td> <td>Built by Gourlay Brothers of Dundee for the New Holland to Hull ferry service. Sold around 1934 to the Redcliffe Shipping Company and renamed <i>Cruising Queen</i>. Scrapped shortly afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_City_of_Bradford_(1903)" title="SS City of Bradford (1903)">SS <i>City of Bradford</i></a> </td> <td>1903 </td> <td>1,341 </td> <td>With City of Leeds, these were the first new ships ordered by the Great Central Railway. Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Passed to the LNER in 1923 and <a href="/wiki/Associated_Humber_Lines" title="Associated Humber Lines">Associated Humber Lines</a> in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but found to be surplus to requirements. Sold in 1936 to the Near East Shipping Co, London and renamed <i>Hanne</i>. The vessel was bombed and sunk off Malta in February 1942.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_City_of_Leeds_(1903)" title="SS City of Leeds (1903)">SS <i>City of Leeds</i></a> </td> <td>1903 </td> <td>1,341 </td> <td>With City of Bradford, these were the first new ships ordered by the Great Central Railway. Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Passed to the LNER in 1923 and <a href="/wiki/Associated_Humber_Lines" title="Associated Humber Lines">Associated Humber Lines</a> in 1935. Scrapped in 1937<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Dewsbury_(1910)" title="SS Dewsbury (1910)">SS <i>Dewsbury</i></a> </td> <td>1910 </td> <td>1,631 </td> <td>Built in 1910 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Scrapped in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PS_Grimsby_(1888)" title="PS Grimsby (1888)">PS <i>Grimsby</i></a> </td> <td>1888 </td> <td>351 </td> <td>Built in 1888 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Commissioned for the New Holland to Hull ferry service. Scrapped in 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Huddersfield_(1872)" title="SS Huddersfield (1872)">SS <i>Huddersfield</i></a> </td> <td>1872 </td> <td>221 </td> <td>Built in 1872 by J Elder of Fairfield. Wrecked in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Immingham_(1906)" title="SS Immingham (1906)">SS <i>Immingham</i></a> </td> <td>1906 </td> <td>2,009 </td> <td>Built in 1906 by Swan Hunter in Newcastle. Sunk on war service in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PS_Killingholme_(1912)" title="PS Killingholme (1912)">PS <i>Killingholme</i></a> </td> <td>1912 </td> <td>508 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the New Holland to Hull ferry service. Withdrawn in 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Leicester_(1891)" title="SS Leicester (1891)">SS <i>Leicester</i></a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td>1,002 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. A war loss in 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Lincoln_(1883)" title="SS Lincoln (1883)">SS <i>Lincoln</i></a> </td> <td>1883 </td> <td>1,075 </td> <td>Built in 1883 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sold in 1914 to Greek owners and renamed <i>Elikon</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sunk on 2 February 1917. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Lutterworth_(1891)" title="SS Lutterworth (1891)">SS <i>Lutterworth</i></a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td>1,002 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> of Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Entered service from <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> to <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>. Acquired by LNER in 1923. Served until 1932 when she sold to <a href="/wiki/British_and_Irish_Steam_Packet_Company" title="British and Irish Steam Packet Company">British and Irish Steam Packet Company</a> and was scrapped the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-Haws_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haws-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Macclesfield_(1914)" title="SS Macclesfield (1914)">SS <i>Macclesfield</i></a> </td> <td>1914 </td> <td>1,018 </td> <td>Built in 1914 by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a>. Transferred into <a href="/wiki/Associated_Humber_Lines" title="Associated Humber Lines">Associated Humber Lines</a>. Scrapped in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/PS_Manchester_(1876)" title="PS Manchester (1876)">PS <i>Manchester</i></a> </td> <td>1876 </td> <td>221 </td> <td>Built in 1876 by the Goole Engineering and Shipbuilding Company for the Humber Ferry Service. Scrapped in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Marple_(1888)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Marple (1888) (page does not exist)">SS <i>Marple</i></a> </td> <td>1888 </td> <td>104 </td> <td>Built in 1888 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Used as a tug and tender in Grimsby and Immingham. Transferred to the LNER in 1923. Sold to the Tees Towing Company in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Marylebone_(1906)" title="SS Marylebone (1906)">SS <i>Marylebone</i></a> </td> <td>1906 </td> <td>2,074 </td> <td>Built in 1906 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. Sold in 1932 to the Tramp Shipping Development Company. Renamed <i>Velos</i>, <i>Arafat</i>, and <i>Velos</i>. Scrapped in Italy in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Northenden_(1886)" title="SS Northenden (1886)">SS <i>Northenden</i></a> </td> <td>1886 </td> <td>843 </td> <td>Built in 1886 by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a> in Newcastle for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sold to Progress Company of West Hartlepool in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Nottingham_(1891)" title="SS Nottingham (1891)">SS <i>Nottingham</i></a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td>1,033 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Entered service when delivered with her sisters <i>Lutterworth</i> and <i>Staveley</i> on the <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> route, but transferred to Grimsby - <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a> in 1897. The vessel served as a naval supply vessel between 1915 and 1918 and changed her name to <i>HMS Notts</i>. Following refurbishment in 1919 she re-entered commercial service returning to her original name of <i>Nottingham</i>. Acquired by LNER in 1923 and served until scrapped in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-Haws_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haws-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Oldham_(1888)" title="SS Oldham (1888)">SS <i>Oldham</i></a> </td> <td>1888 </td> <td>846 </td> <td>Launched in 1888 and delivered in 1889 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> of Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Used for the Grimsby to Esbjerg service. Sold to Greek owners in 1913 and renamed <i>Eleftheria</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Retford_(1883)" title="SS Retford (1883)">SS <i>Retford</i></a> </td> <td>1883 </td> <td>951 </td> <td>Built in 1883 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sold in 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Sheffield_(1877)" title="SS Sheffield (1877)">SS <i>Sheffield</i></a> </td> <td>1877 </td> <td>644 </td> <td>Built in 1877 by J. Elder for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Sold in 1910 to Turkish owners and renamed <i>Seyyar</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Staveley_(1891)" title="SS Staveley (1891)">SS <i>Staveley</i></a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td>1,034 </td> <td>Built by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a> at <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Entered service with her sisters <i>Nottingham</i> and <i>Lutterworth</i> on the <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Grimsby</a> - <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> route. Acquired by LNER in 1923 and continued in service until sold to the <a href="/wiki/British_and_Irish_Steam_Packet_Company" title="British and Irish Steam Packet Company">British and Irish Steam Packet Company</a> in 1932. She was scrapped a year later by Thos.W.Ward at Preston.<sup id="cite_ref-Haws_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haws-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Stockport_(1911)" title="SS Stockport (1911)">SS <i>Stockport</i></a> </td> <td>1911 </td> <td>1,637 </td> <td>Built in 1910 by <a href="/wiki/Earle%27s_Shipbuilding" title="Earle's Shipbuilding">Earle's Shipbuilding</a> in Hull. Sunk in February 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/SS_Warrington_(1886)" title="SS Warrington (1886)">SS <i>Warrington</i></a> </td> <td>1886 </td> <td>840 </td> <td>Built in 1886 by <a href="/wiki/Swan_Hunter" title="Swan Hunter">Swan Hunter</a> in Newcastle for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway" title="Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway">Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway</a>. Ran aground on South Hasborough Sands in December 1903 and lost.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Wrexham_(1902)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Wrexham (1902) (page does not exist)">SS <i>Wrexham</i></a> </td> <td>1902 </td> <td>1,414 </td> <td>Built in 1902 as <i>Nord II</i>, she was acquired by the Great Central Railway in 1905. Sunk on war service in 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-Duckworth_40-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duckworth-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Immingham_museum">Immingham museum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Immingham museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Immingham museum, which portrays the role of the Great Central Railway in the building of the docks and construction of the local rail network is home to the Great Central Railway Society archive. The museum is located in the Civic Centre, Pelham Road, Immingham and is open from 1pm to 4pm, Wednesday to Saturday from March through to November.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Great_Central_Railway&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Chapman_(politician)" title="Edward Chapman (politician)">Edward Chapman</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Shepperton: <a href="/wiki/Ian_Allan_Publishing" title="Ian Allan Publishing">Ian Allan</a>. pp. 297–8, frontispiece. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7110-1469-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-7110-1469-8"><bdi>0-7110-1469-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Great+Central%2C+Volume+Two%3A+Dominion+of+Watkin%2C+1864%E2%80%931899&rft.place=Shepperton&rft.pages=297-8%2C+frontispiece&rft.pub=Ian+Allan&rft.date=1962&rft.isbn=0-7110-1469-8&rft.aulast=Dow&rft.aufirst=George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FHSCH-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FHSCH_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FHSCH_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FHSCH_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000776/19031107/066/0004">"Railway Enterprise. Important move by the Great Central Railway"</a></span>. <i>Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald</i>. British Newspaper Archive. 7 November 1903<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 July</span> 2016</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Folkestone%2C+Hythe%2C+Sandgate+%26+Cheriton+Herald&rft.atitle=Railway+Enterprise.+Important+move+by+the+Great+Central+Railway.&rft.date=1903-11-07&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000776%2F19031107%2F066%2F0004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000335/19030522/112/0004">"Great Central Railway Rapid Travel in Luxury"</a></span>. <i>Surrey Mirror</i>. 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Vestibuled Breakfast Car Train Sheffield to London without a Stop. Commencing 1 July 1903"</a></span>. <i>Sheffield Daily Telegraph</i>. British Newspaper Archive. 25 June 1903<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 July</span> 2016</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sheffield+Daily+Telegraph&rft.atitle=Great+Central+Railway+Summer+Express+Train+Service.+Vestibuled+Breakfast+Car+Train+Sheffield+to+London+without+a+Stop.+Commencing+1+July+1903.&rft.date=1903-06-25&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000250%2F19030625%2F126%2F0004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-act-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-act_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/11-12/55/enacted"><i>Railways Act 1921</i></a>, HMSO, 19 August 1921</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Railways+Act+1921&rft.pub=HMSO&rft.date=1921-08-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2FGeo5%2F11-12%2F55%2Fenacted&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEllis1947" class="citation book cs1">Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton (1947). <i>The Trains We Loved</i>. 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Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 132. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84674-042-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84674-042-8"><bdi>978-1-84674-042-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lost+Railways+of+Derbyshire&rft.place=Newbury&rft.pages=132&rft.pub=Countryside+Books&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=978-1-84674-042-8&rft.aulast=Kingscott&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSweeney2014" class="citation book cs1">Sweeney, Dennis J (2014). <i>The St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railway</i>. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85361-292-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85361-292-6"><bdi>978-0-85361-292-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+St.+Helens+and+Wigan+Junction+Railway&rft.place=Leigh&rft.pub=Triangle+Publishing&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-0-85361-292-6&rft.aulast=Sweeney&rft.aufirst=Dennis+J&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dow-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dow_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dow_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDow1965" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/George_Dow" title="George Dow">Dow, George</a> (1965). <i>Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922</i>. Shepperton: <a href="/wiki/Ian_Allan_Publishing" title="Ian Allan Publishing">Ian Allan</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7110-0263-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7110-0263-0"><bdi>0-7110-0263-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Great+Central%2C+Volume+Three%3A+Fay+Sets+the+Pace%2C+1900%E2%80%931922&rft.place=Shepperton&rft.pub=Ian+Allan&rft.date=1965&rft.isbn=0-7110-0263-0&rft.aulast=Dow&rft.aufirst=George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFReed1997" class="citation book cs1">Reed, Albin J. (1997). <i>The Met & GC Line An Observer's Notes, 1948–1968</i>. Avon Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Met+%26+GC+Line+An+Observer%27s+Notes%2C+1948%E2%80%931968&rft.pub=Avon+Books&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Reed&rft.aufirst=Albin+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette28632" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28632/page/5722">"No. 28632"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 2 August 1912. p. 5722.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+London+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+28632&rft.pages=5722&rft.date=1912-08-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FLondon%2Fissue%2F28632%2Fpage%2F5722&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarshall1978" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Marshall_(railway_historian)" title="John Marshall (railway historian)">Marshall, John</a> (1978). <i>A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers</i>. Newton Abbot: <a href="/wiki/David_%26_Charles" title="David & Charles">David & Charles</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7153-7489-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7153-7489-3"><bdi>0-7153-7489-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Biographical+Dictionary+of+Railway+Engineers&rft.place=Newton+Abbot&rft.pub=David+%26+Charles&rft.date=1978&rft.isbn=0-7153-7489-3&rft.aulast=Marshall&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/19020505/100/0010">"The directors of the Great Central Railway have decided to combine the offices of locomotive and carriage and waggon superintendent, and have, from the 1st inst., placed both departments under the control of Mr. John G. Robinson, who has hitherto held the position of locomotive engineer to the company"</a></span>. <i>Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser</i>. British Newspaper Archive. 5 May 1902<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 July</span> 2016</span> – via British Newspaper Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Manchester+Courier+and+Lancashire+General+Advertiser&rft.atitle=The+directors+of+the+Great+Central+Railway+have+decided+to+combine+the+offices+of+locomotive+and+carriage+and+waggon+superintendent%2C+and+have%2C+from+the+1st+inst.%2C+placed+both+departments+under+the+control+of+Mr.+John+G.+Robinson%2C+who+has+hitherto+held+the+position+of+locomotive+engineer+to+the+company&rft.date=1902-05-05&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk%2Fviewer%2Fbl%2F0000206%2F19020505%2F100%2F0010&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Baxter-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Baxter_17-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBaxter1988" class="citation book cs1">Baxter, Bertram (1988). Baxter, David (ed.). <i>British Locomotive Catalogue 1825–1923, volume 5B: Great Northern Railway and Great Central Railway</i>. Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Moorland Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-903485-86-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-903485-86-9"><bdi>0-903485-86-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Locomotive+Catalogue+1825%E2%80%931923%2C+volume+5B%3A+Great+Northern+Railway+and+Great+Central+Railway&rft.place=Ashbourne%2C+Derbyshire&rft.pub=Moorland+Publishing&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-903485-86-9&rft.aulast=Baxter&rft.aufirst=Bertram&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gcr567loco.co.uk/">"gcr567"</a>. <i>The GCR 567 Locomotive Group</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+GCR+567+Locomotive+Group&rft.atitle=gcr567&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gcr567loco.co.uk%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=3496">"MSLR 946 Six-wheel 5-compartment Third (for MSJAR) built 1888"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=MSLR+946+Six-wheel+5-compartment+Third+%28for+MSJAR%29+built+1888&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D3496&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=878">"MSLR 373 Six-wheel Third built 1889"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=MSLR+373+Six-wheel+Third+built+1889&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D878&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=824">"GCR 1663 Clerestory Composite Brake Lavatory (Body only) built 1903"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=GCR+1663+Clerestory+Composite+Brake+Lavatory+%28Body+only%29+built+1903&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D824&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111003140534/http://www.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk/news_output.asp?id=239&checkSource=stock">"Clerestory GCR 1663 successfully moved to its chassis"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk/news_output.asp?id=239&checkSource=stock">the original</a> on 3 October 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 April</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Clerestory+GCR+1663+successfully+moved+to+its+chassis&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk%2Fnews_output.asp%3Fid%3D239%26checkSource%3Dstock&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=4838">"GCR five-compartment Suburban Brake Third (body only) built 1905"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+five-compartment+Suburban+Brake+Third+%28body+only%29+built+1905&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D4838&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=822">"GCR 793 eight-compartment Suburban Third built 1905"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+793+eight-compartment+Suburban+Third+built+1905&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D822&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=821">"GCR 799 eight-compartment Suburban Third built 1905"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+799+eight-compartment+Suburban+Third+built+1905&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D821&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=816">"GCR 228 'Barnum' Third Open built 1910"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+228+%27Barnum%27+Third+Open+built+1910&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D816&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=818">"GCR 664 'Barnum' Third Open built 1910"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+664+%27Barnum%27+Third+Open+built+1910&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D818&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=819">"GCR 666 'Barnum' Third Open built 1910"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+666+%27Barnum%27+Third+Open+built+1910&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D819&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.rhrp.org.uk/se/CarriageInfo.asp?Ref=820">"GCR 695 'Barnum' Brake Third Open built 1911"</a>. <i>www.cs.rhrp.org.uk</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.cs.rhrp.org.uk&rft.atitle=GCR+695+%27Barnum%27+Brake+Third+Open+built+1911&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.rhrp.org.uk%2Fse%2FCarriageInfo.asp%3FRef%3D820&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190624115350/https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co207724/great-central-railway-single-bolster-railway-wagon">"Great Central Railway single bolster | Science Museum Group Collection"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co207724/great-central-railway-single-bolster-railway-wagon">the original</a> on 24 June 2019<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 September</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Great+Central+Railway+single+bolster+%26%23124%3B+Science+Museum+Group+Collection&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcollection.sciencemuseum.org.uk%2Fobjects%2Fco207724%2Fgreat-central-railway-single-bolster-railway-wagon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Transfer20-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Transfer20_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230304195002/https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SMG-transfers-advert-June-August-2020.pdf">"Objects Available for Transfer (June–August 2020)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Science Museum Group. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SMG-transfers-advert-June-August-2020.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 4 March 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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GCR Rolling Stock Trust. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk/articles_output.asp?id=8&checkSource=sitemap">the original</a> on 25 October 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 March</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Wath+concentration+yard+%26+the+%22Wath+Daisies%22&rft.pub=GCR+Rolling+Stock+Trust&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gcr-rollingstocktrust.co.uk%2Farticles_output.asp%3Fid%3D8%26checkSource%3Dsitemap&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Earnshaw7-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Earnshaw7_34-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEarnshaw1991" class="citation book cs1">Earnshaw, Alan (1991). <i>Trains in Trouble: Vol. 7</i>. Penryn: Atlantic Books. p. 7. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-906899-50-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-906899-50-8"><bdi>0-906899-50-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Trains+in+Trouble%3A+Vol.+7&rft.place=Penryn&rft.pages=7&rft.pub=Atlantic+Books&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=0-906899-50-8&rft.aulast=Earnshaw&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGreat+Central+Railway" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSistig2024" class="citation web cs1">Sistig, Bekah (15 April 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/goods-guards-the-dangers-of-signallers-errors/">"Goods guards – the dangers of signallers' errors"</a>. <i>Railway Work, Life & Death</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Railways">Cambrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Railway" title="Cardiff Railway">Cardiff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway" title="Great Western Railway">Great Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhymney_Railway" title="Rhymney Railway">Rhymney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taff_Vale_Railway" title="Taff Vale Railway">Taff Vale</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituents_of_the_Great_Western_Railway" title="List of constituents of the Great Western Railway">Full list</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="London and North Eastern Railway">LNER</abbr> constituents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Great Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Eastern_Railway" title="Great Eastern Railway">Great Eastern</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caledonian_Railway" title="Caledonian Railway">Caledonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Furness_Railway" title="Furness Railway">Furness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_and_South_Western_Railway" title="Glasgow and South Western Railway">Glasgow & South Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Railway" title="Highland Railway">Highland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lancashire_and_Yorkshire_Railway" title="Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway">Lancashire & Yorkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_and_North_Western_Railway" title="London and North Western Railway">London & North Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midland_Railway" title="Midland Railway">Midland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Staffordshire_Railway" title="North Staffordshire Railway">North Staffordshire</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_constituents_of_the_London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway" title="List of constituents of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway">Full list</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><abbr title="Southern Railway">SR</abbr> constituents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/London_and_South_Western_Railway" title="London and South Western Railway">London & South Western</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London,_Brighton_and_South_Coast_Railway" title="London, Brighton and South Coast Railway">London, Brighton & South Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London,_Chatham_and_Dover_Railway" title="London, Chatham and Dover Railway">London, Chatham and Dover Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_and_Chatham_Railway" title="South Eastern and Chatham Railway">South Eastern and Chatham Railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_(England)" title="South Eastern Railway (England)">South Eastern 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