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After that date, London-Lincoln trains still passed through Grantham, but then continued up the main line to Newark Northgate, where the trains branched off to Lincoln St Marks Railway Station via a new curve just north of Newark. In 1906 a rail accident killed 14 people. [citation needed]
The Grantham and Lincoln railway line was a line in Lincolnshire, built by the Great Northern Railway to shorten the distance between the town of Grantham and city of Lincoln. It had already formed a network in Lincolnshire, but the route from London and points south and west of Grantham was very indirect.
The city was previously served by three other railway lines: the Lincolnshire loop line, [83] the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway [84] and the Grantham and Lincoln railway line [85] Trains on the Newark line formerly stopped at Lincoln St Marks, a separate station to the south, until they were diverted to the current station in ...
In 1889 a Mr Justice Grantham, who claimed to be a descendant, removed the tomb without permission to Barcombe in East Sussex. The remaining fragments of the effigies were reclaimed and placed in St Benedict's Church Lincoln, where in 1956 Sir Francis Hill says that the mutilated fragments lay '"after unseemly neglect and ill-usage"'. [6]
The junction was crossed by Pelham Bridge in the mid-1950s. Until its closure, St. Marks was the main line station, with through services from Cleethorpes to London King's Cross. Prior to closure of the Lincoln-to-Grantham line during the Beeching Axe, London services had used Lincoln Central.
Wesleyan School, Grantham Street, Lincoln (1856). [156] Adjacent to the "Big" Wesley Chapel on the south side of Grantham Street with Danesgate on East. Apparently rebuilt in 1870 . Wesleyan Day School, Newmarket, Louth. [157] This school was to continue in use until the early 1970's. Wesleyan Day Schools, Rosemary Lane, Monk's Road, Lincoln ...
As part of the overall scheme, Lincoln's platforms were renumbered from 3–7 to 1–5 The ornate main entrance at Lincoln station. All four existing signal boxes – High Street, East Holmes, West Holmes and Pelham Street Junction – were closed and replaced by a new state of the art signalling centre near the West Holmes box.
South Kesteven is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. Its council is based in Grantham.The district also includes the towns of Bourne, Market Deeping and Stamford, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.