Stainby: the last bridge on the High Dyke Branch - detail
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Stainby: the last bridge on the High Dyke Branch - detail
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 17 Jun 2010
The Great Northern Railway High Dyke Branch, built during the Great War to carry iron ore from the iron-rich area south of Grantham, made an end-on connexion with the Buckminster quarries railway system at Stainby, and opened in 1916. This is the last Great Northern bridge on the branch, immediately north of Stainby Station (not a station in the accepted sense, but just a siding), whose landscaped site is just to the left. Railings have replaced the original blue-brick parapet. There were extensive interchange sidings to the north of this bridge. Quarrying, which extended over the parishes of Stainby, Sewstern, Gunby, Buckminster, North Witham and Thistleton, ceased in the 1970s and the land has been restored to agriculture. The last quarries, at Stainby Glebe, worked till 1973, were immdiately north-east of here.
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Image Location
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52.794774
Longitude
-0.66269