IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Station Road, RETFORD, DN22 8LD
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This page details the photographs taken nearby to Station Road, DN22 8LD by members of the Geograph project.
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Crossing barriers down again
This is a busy line, the main East Coast route. Looking towards Ranskill village.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 8 Nov 2009
0.02 miles
2
Site of former Ranskill station, East Coast Main Line 1992
View southward, towards Retford, Grantham and the South: ex-GNR (King's Cross - Doncaster) section of the ECML, electrified 1989. Part of the station remains on the right, closure for passengers having been from 6/10/58,for goods 7/12/64. During World War Two there was a large Royal Ordnance Factory (Cordite) on the Up side here, with its own Factory Station on the extensive circular layout of rail lines.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 18 Jun 1992
0.02 miles
3
Ranskill signal box
By the East Coast Mainline track.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 5 Jan 2016
0.03 miles
4
Station Road, Ranskill
Despite looking quite imposing, this is a dead-end road, leading to an industrial area.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 24 Nov 2014
0.03 miles
6
Ranskill crossing
A high speed train thunders through Ranskill
Image: © Richard Croft
Taken: 4 Jun 2011
0.03 miles
7
Ranskill level crossing
On the East Coast main railway line.
Image: © Steve Fareham
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.03 miles
8
Ranskill signal box
Built by the Great Northern Railway around 1875, it was downgraded to a gate box as far back as 1980, but has nevertheless survived. This is the East Coast Main Line.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 24 Nov 2014
0.04 miles
9
Ranskill box
No longer a signal box this building controls the various level crossings in the area by CCTV. The signals are actually worked from Doncaster signalling centre.
Image: © roger geach
Taken: 8 Nov 2009
0.04 miles
10
Waiting for the train to pass
Ranskill crossing the East Coast main railway line.
Image: © Steve Fareham
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.04 miles