IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Century Road, RETFORD, DN22 7TD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Century Road, DN22 7TD by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (110 Images Found)
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Distance
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Worksop to Gainsborough railway in Retford
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 22 Oct 2020
0.03 miles
3
Factory being demolished
The entrance once to a large factory complex at Retford. What a surprise this is now being demolished for more housing development!
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 2 Aug 2008
0.03 miles
4
Railways at Retford
The East Coast Mainline crossing over the Sheffield to Grimsby line at South Retford.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 29 Jun 2023
0.04 miles
5
Railway to Worksop and Sheffield
Part of the dive-under constructed in 1963-5.
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 30 Aug 2023
0.05 miles
6
Footbridge over the dive-under
Links Ordsall with Retford railway station and the town centre.
Image: © Jonathan Thacker
Taken: 30 Aug 2023
0.05 miles
7
Retford (GN) loco depot: on the scrap road
In the days of steam there were two engine sheds at Retford, this one, near the station, built by the Great Northern Railway, the other, Thrumpton, by the Great Central on its cross-country line from Sheffield to Gainsborough, Lincoln and Grimsby. By 1965 the Eastern Region was dieselising rapidly and freight locomotives like Great Central O4/1 63692 (built July 1912) were being withdrawn from service (on 14 February 1965 in this case). Already lacking its coupling rods, it stands next to an LNER 4,200-gallon tender, probably attached to a B1, and in the foreground are other scrap items: rails, signalling equipment and other hunks of metal. The picture was taken on a schoolboy locospotters' bus trip which had taken us to Frodingham and Hull Dairycoates and called at Retford on the way back to Nottingham.
The building in the background still exists, but the rest of the engine-shed site on West Carr Road is now occupied by a business park.
Image: © John Sutton
Taken: Unknown
0.06 miles
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A crossing of train lines
Taken from the Kings Cross to Hull train just to the south of Retford station.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 1 Sep 2012
0.06 miles
9
Retford GNR steam shed
Another closer view of the former Great Northern Railway's steam shed, now in industrial use after closure in 1965.
Image: © Ashley Dace
Taken: 31 Jan 2009
0.07 miles
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Railway Station, Retford
Class 58046 on a 'Merry-Go-Round' train, is passing through the lowel-level station, heading for one of the coal-fired power stations. The upper-level has all the amenities and is on the East Coast Main Line. This section of track and the northern section of the ECML were opened in 1849. The southern section, to Peterborough, had to wait until 1852.
A total of 50 Class 58s were built by BREL at Doncaster between 1983 and 1987 and from new all were painted in grey Railfreight Sector livery, instead of the BR blue. They served for 20 years, but some which have been sent abroad, are still working. I first photographed them at Peterborough. They were working on test, in pairs, on the 'fly-ash' trains.
Image: © Dave Hitchborne
Taken: 18 Aug 1987
0.07 miles