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Huntingtower Road, GRANTHAM, NG31 7AU

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm57027

There is an OS benchmark Image on the side of the house at the near corner

There were 289 of these large 0-6-0's designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER: they were generally useful for freight, and at times for passenger, work, throughout the system. No. 4965 was one of several allocated to Grantham Shed.

Ex-Great Northern J6 0-6-0 No. 4199 may be working a local train to Nottingham (Victoria).

View westward, from Grantham station, ex-Great Northern ECML. The Depot was over to the left of K1 No. 62028 - a Blaydon engine probably just out of Doncaster Works, shining in fresh lined-black livery. Grantham was one of the principal Depots on the ECML - especially for express locomotives. Coded 35B in the Peterborough Division, in 1954 the allocation was 50, comprising:- 18 4-6-2, 8 4-6-0, 14 2-8-0, 3 0-6-0, 2 4-6-2T, 2 4-4-2T and 3 0-6-0T.

The residential area of Huntingtower Road lies behind the photographer. This is a view into the shorter - and perhaps slightly less claustrophobic - of the two subways beneath the station's railway tracks, looking towards the horseshoe-shaped entrance to the subway nearest to the town centre. The more distant tunnel is approximately 100 metres long and 6' 6" inch high and it provides users with access to Station Road. Graphics and art & design students from Grantham College created the series of pictures lining the nearest subway, as part of a joint initiative between Grantham College, London North Eastern Railway (LNER) and South Kesteven District Council. A plot of railway company land on the right of this path, and parallel with it, was where the Grantham Railway Guild once had its extensive club premises. The former Huntingtower Road County Primary School buildings (since replaced by The Huntingtower Community Academy) and former Springfield County Secondary School site - closed in August 1964 - were both located on this side of the tracks.

There is an Ordnance Survey benchmark Image on the left hand side of the left hand house near its front corner

View SE in the Depot, which adjoined the Station on the ex-Great Northern East Coast Main Line. This is Class A2/3 No. 517 'Ocean Swell', only six months old. The occasion was one of my earliest Shed Visits and a very early photographic effort on my part. The engine had come down from Heaton Depot in Newcastle, where I had worked briefly in 1944.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm111446