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Marshalls Rise, GAINSBOROUGH, DN21 2HL

A grand name for a terrace with a very narrow access.

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passenger services (which had been thrice-daily each way between Sheffield and Cleethorpes since the early 1980s) were withdrawn by British Rail in October 1993 leaving only three trains in each direction running on Saturdays.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 2008 to 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 These disused platforms are just past the current platforms - see www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7476351

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passenger services (which had been thrice-daily each way between Sheffield and Cleethorpes since the early 1980s) were withdrawn by British Rail in October 1993 leaving only three trains in each direction running on Saturdays.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 2008 to 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

Built 1865-8. For a description see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-196296-roman-catholic-church-of-st-thomas-of-ca

Heading north from Gainsborough Central Railway Station.

Grade II Listed mid 19th century building. Built in 1860 and originally Magistrates Court and the Divisional Headquarters of the Lincolnshire Police until July 1975 when the new police station on Morton Terrace was built followed by the new Magistrates' Court on Church Street in 1978. Douglas Parkinson purchased both of the old buildings in 1978 for £3,250. The courtroom was converted into a small theatre in 1979; the newly rechristened Old Nick Theatre opened to the public in 1980. Douglas Parkinson died in 1992 and bequeathed the property to the Gainsborough Theatre Group. The police station reception, watch room, cells etc remained completely unchanged and in the state they were when the police vacated the building, so in January 2017 the group submitted a planning application to create a Crime and Punishment Museum that then opened on 25th July 2017.

This is in Station Approach, close to Gainsborough Central station. Its website can be seen here http://theoldnick.co.uk/

The former Police Station. Fir a full description see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-196348-police-station-gainsborough

The former Police Station. For a description see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-196348-police-station-gainsborough