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The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899 and built by the Great Central Railway running from Sheffield in the North of England , southwards through Nottingham and Leicester to ...
This is a diagrammatic map of the Great Central Main Line, part of the former Great Central Railway network. The map shows the line as it currently is (please refer to legend), and includes all stations (open or closed). Some nearby lines and branch lines are also shown, though most stations are omitted on such lines if they are closed.
It is unclear when the site fell out of use, but a number of factors suggest the 1960s: Summer holiday specials ended in 1964; the Great Central Main Line closed as a through route in 1966, ending any possibility of through trains such as the Whitland Fish; the rundown of steam reduced the need for loco changes and watering stops
The Great Central Railway was the first railway granted a coat of arms.It was granted on 25 February 1898 by the Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms as: . Argent on a cross gules voided of the field between two wings in chief sable and as many daggers erect, in base of the second, in the fesse point a morion winged of the third, on a chief also of the second a pale of the first thereon ...
The station was on the Great Central (GCR) Chesterfield Loop which ran between Staveley Central and Heath Junction (just north of Heath railway station) on the Great Central Main Line. The station opened in 1892 and was closed in 1963.
Great Central Main Line: Great Central Railway (LNER) London (Marylebone) to Sheffield (Victoria) 1966 –69 (in stages) Parts of the GCR still open between London Marylebone to Verney Junction north of Aylesbury. Two stretches of the former Great Central Main Line now preserved as the Nottingham Heritage Railway (between Ruddington and ...
The trunk line status of the Great Central Railway London extension was viewed as an unnecessary duplication, and many of the best express passenger trains were transferred away from the route. The Master Cutler, a prime Sheffield express was moved to the Kings Cross route in 1958 (and later still to the Midland main line). [5]
The station opened on 15 March 1899 as the London terminus of the Great Central Main Line (GCML), the last major railway to open in Britain for 100 years, linking the capital to the cities of Leicester, Sheffield and Manchester. Marylebone was the last of London's main line termini to be built and is one of the smallest, opening with half of ...