A very good afternoon session spent at Grantham on the East Coast Mainline where we have an abundance of services from LNER (London Northeastern Railway), East Midlands Railway, Grand Central and Hull Trains.

The original station was first opened by the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston & Eastern Junction Railway in 1850 when the same line to Nottingham was opened. The current station was opened in 1852, on that date the original station was subsequently closed down. The Great Northern Railway had taken control of the line to Nottingham in 1854.

The current Grantham station was on the Great Northern Railways main line between Peterborough and Retford.

Grantham is unfortunately a station marred by disaster and accidents. On July 25th 1868 a Great Northern Railway cleaner was tragically killed when he was run over by a guards van. On 4th November of the same year an 80 year old chap by the name of John Boswell was walking along the line not to far away from his house when a down train hit and subsequently killed him. In May 1873 a Great Northern Railway driver was struck by a ballast engine whilst crossing over the yard and sadly lost his life. In March 1887 another driver was killed when she was hit by some wagons in the yard being shunted, and finally in November 1898 a shunter for Great Northern Railway was killed when crossing the line near to the station.

My next station will actually be London Paddington.

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