Nottingham to Grantham Line

Nottingham-Grantham Line

A class 158 nearing Radcliffe station
Overview
Type Heavy rail
System National Rail
Status Operational
Locale Lincolnshire
Nottinghamshire
East Midlands
Termini Nottingham

Grantham
Stations 8
Operation
Opened 1850
Owner Network Rail
Operator(s) East Midlands Trains
Rolling stock Class 153 Super Sprinter
Class 156 Super Sprinter
Class 158 Express Sprinter
Technical
No. of tracks Two
Track gauge Standard Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Nottingham-Grantham Line
Legend
Midland Main Line
Nottingham
Nottingham to Lincoln Line
Netherfield
To Gedling Colliery
Rectory Junction
River Trent
To Cotgrave Colliery
Radcliffe
To Melton Mowbray
Bingham
Aslockton
Elton and Orston
Bottesford West Junction
Newark on Trent to Melton Mowbray line
Bottesford
Poacher Line Allington Junction
East Coast Main Line
Grantham
East Coast Main Line

The Nottingham to Grantham Line is a branch line between the towns of Nottingham and Grantham in the East Midlands of England. It follows the A52.

The following places are served by the line.

Contents

Routes to Skegness

At Grantham, the line meets the East Coast Main Line and also the Grantham to Skegness Line. Not all Skegness-bound trains stop at Grantham, and the express service (limited stop) has its first stop at Sleaford, splitting from the Grantham line near Allington onto the Grantham Avoiding Line at Allington junction.[1] The journey on this route to Skegness takes 1 hour 50 minutes, compared to 2 hours 20 minutes via Grantham.

History

The line was initially operated by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston and Eastern Junction Railway from July 15 1850, taken over by the GNR in 1852. At Bottesford, the line was crossed by a north-south LNWR line from Melton Mowbray to Newark on Trent (this northern section was owned by GNR). A western spur of this railway (through Barnstone) joined at Saxondale junction.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://www.signalbox.org/gallery/e/allingtonjcn.htm
  2. ^ http://www.meltonmowbray.steamrailways.com/Barnstone%20Branch.htm

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