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Footpath down the hill
Links the newer suburbs with the older part of Gainsborough.
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
0.15 miles
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Footpath to Enderby Crescent, Gainsborough
Sneaking between the houses from an open space with playground.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 13 Jan 2018
0.15 miles
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Footpath up the hill
The town centre and older parts of Gainsborough stand on a narrow strip of land to the east of the River Trent and a line of low hills. This footpath links that part of town with the newer suburbs at the top of the hill.
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
0.15 miles
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Tesco car park
The top end of the car park at Tesco is by the factories that once were all over this part of Gainsborough. Few are left and the Marshalls factory and yard are now a very pleasant shopping complex really well constructed on what was the former factory area.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 1 Dec 2009
0.16 miles
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Swings behind Enderby Crescent, Gainsborough
In a fairly small open space overlooking the town centre.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 13 Jan 2018
0.16 miles
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Gainsborough Central Signal Box
Near Gainsborough Central Railway Station.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 28 Feb 2015
0.17 miles
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Subway under railway, Gainsborough
Under the old main line of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, this section of which is now little used; passenger services were reduced in 1993 to three trains each way between Sheffield and Cleethorpes on Saturdays only. The main station for the town is now Gainsborough Lea Road, on the line to Lincoln, leaving Gainsborough Central (just out of frame to the right) as something of a ghost station. Gainsborough Central signal box is visible on the left; I believe it closed in 2016.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 13 Jan 2018
0.18 miles
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Subway beneath the railway
The brightest part of Gainsborough !
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 9 Aug 2011
0.18 miles
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Pedestrian railway crossing, Gainsborough Central Railway Station
Signal box in the distance.
Image: © JThomas
Taken: 28 Feb 2015
0.18 miles
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Looking south from Gainsborough Central station
Gainsborough Central station was opened by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) on 2nd April 1849. The station buildings were demolished in 1975, leaving just the two platforms and a footbridge over the two railway lines. Weekday passenger services (which had been thrice-daily each way between Sheffield and Cleethorpes since the early 1980s) were withdrawn by British Rail in October 1993 leaving only three trains in each direction running on Saturdays.
In the 2002/3 financial year, only five fare-paying passengers (excluding season ticket holders) boarded trains at Gainsborough Central station, and three disembarked, making it the least busy station in Great Britain, alongside Barry Links. The 2004/05 figures suggested 21 passengers used the station that year, putting it slightly above Watford West, a station which closed in 1996.
The line through the station was upgraded and refurbished in 2008to allow it to carry increased levels of freight traffic from the port complex at Immingham to South Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
In May 2019 Northern Rail introduced an hourly service between Gainsborough Central and Sheffield on weekdays and Saturdays, which was the most regular service the station had received since 1849. However, it is now back to the skeleton service of no trains Monday to Friday and Sunday and just three trains on Saturday, four hours apart. This can be seen on the timetable - www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7476340
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Apr 2023
0.19 miles