| A selection of images recorded since 1989 on the former Great Central Railways London Extension from London Marylebone to Nottingham Victoria.
I am sorry that these are in no particular order! |
Ashby Magna Buy Print |
Brackley Central Buy Print |
Brackley Central Buy Print |
Catesby Tunnel North End Buy Print |
Catesby Tunnel North End Buy Print |
Catesby Tunnel South Portal Buy Print |
Catesby Viaduct Buy Print |
Catesby Viaduct Buy Print |
Catesby Viaduct Buy Print |
Charwelton Buy Print |
Eydon Buy Print |
Eydon Buy Print |
Finmere Buy Print |
Grendon Underwood Buy Print |
Grendon Underwood Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon Buy Print |
Helmdon. The overgrown platform at Helmdon looking up. Buy Print |
Leicester Central street level view in the early 1990s. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Looking down. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Parcels entrance, note the wooden doors where the lorry stands. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Platform remains, looking up. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Looking up. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Parcels entrance at street level. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Platform remains in the 1990s. Buy Print |
Leicester Central. Trackbed site, station building in the distance left. Buy Print |
Looking east towards Claydon L&NE Jct along the Oxford - Bletchley branch. The GCR overbridge is long since gone. Buy Print |
Lougborough Central. Overgrown trackbed near the Midland line station. This section joined to the Midland via a spur a bit further ahead. Looking up. Buy Print |
The modern building stands where once A1s struggled away with the up South Yorkshireman, or The Master Cutler. Buy Print |
The rear of Brackley Central remains relatively unchanged, although the footbridge to the platforms has long since gone. The building is now used by a car servicing organisation. Buy Print |
Waddesdon Manor. Metropolitan & Great Central. The first station after Aylesbury Town. The former up line remains and is used by Chiltern Trains for driver training. Buy Print |
Weekday Cross Jct. Looking north (down) towards Nottingham Victoria a few yards south of the former junction site. The tunnel entrance can be glimpsed in the centre, and on the right the remains of the viaduct carrying the Great Northern connecting spur is visible. Buy Print |
Weekday Cross Junction. South of Nottingham Victoria. A long disused spur to the Great Northern branched away left, the former mainline continued over Nottingham Midland and onto Marylebone. Buy Print |
Woodford Halse. Looking down towards the former station site. Buy Print |
Woodford Halse. Looking up in 1989. Buy Print |
