STAMFORD  OPENED  2/10/1846 TO TEMPORARY STATION EAST OF STAMFORD TUNNEL. PRESENT STATION OPENED TO GOODS 20/3/1848, TO PASSENGERS 1/5/1848.   CLOSED TO GOODS 16/5/1983.   LNWR ENGINE SHED OPENED 1881, CLOSED 20/9/1926.  JUNCTION WITH GNR LINE OPENED 1/7/1867, CLOSED 4/3/1963.

REMAINS AT SITE;  STATION BUILDINGS (PARTLY IN USE AS RAILWAY BOOK SHOP); FOOTBRIDGE & WAITING SHELTER. SIGNAL BOX, NOT IN ORIGINAL POSITION.

A HAND COLOURED POSTCARD DATING FROM AROUND 1900 - THE GREEN & BROWN BOX VANS ARE NOT AUTHENTIC!

THE PUSH AND PULL TRAIN TO SEATON JUNCTION VIA LUFFENHAM WAS THE LAST SUCH SERVICE IN THE U.K. BY THE TIME IT WAS WITHDRAWN IN 1967. ORIGINALLY L.N.W.R. IT BROUGHT LOCO'S FROM THAT COMPANY TO STAMFORD AND THERE WAS AN L.N.W. LOCO SHED UNTIL THE GROUPING. THIS SMALL MARKET TOWN SAW TRAINS FROM THE L.N.W., THE M.R. AND THE G.N.R.

THE SEATON SERVICE GENERALLY USED THE BAY BEHIND THE LEICESTER PLATFORM.

STAMFORD TUNNEL.

THE ENTRANCE TO THE STATION; THIS AREA HAS BEEN REDEVELOPED AS A HOUSING ESATE. THE GOODS YARD WAS ON THE RIGHT, AND ALONGSIDE THAT WAS THE CATTLE MARKET.

STAMFORD JUNCTION & THE G.N.R. STATION.

THE G.N.R. STATION AT STAMFORD WAS CALLED 'WATER STREET', VERY APPROPRIATELY AS THE RIVER WELLAND RAN ALONGSIDE THE STATION ON THE RIGHT. THE S&P MAIN LINE IS ON THE LEFT; WHEN THIS SECTION OPENED IT WAS TO A TEMPORARY TERMINUS ON THIS SITE WHICH SERVED THE TOWN UNTIL THE MIDDLE SECTION OF THE LINE OPENED IN 1848.

THE G.N.R. STATION WAS ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE TIME SEEMED TO HAVE STOPPED IN AROUND 1910; IT CLOSED ON MARCH 2nd1957 AND FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS TRAINS RAN INTO THE MIDLAND STATION. HAPPILY THE G.N.R. BUIDINGS HAVE SURVIVED, CONVERETD INTO FLATS.

UFFINGTON & BARNACK  OPENED 2/10/1846  CLOSED 1/9/1952 TO PASSENEGRS, 17/8/1964 TO GOODS.

REMAINS AT SITE; SIGNAL BOX IN USE, GATED CROSSING, STATION BUILDING (PRIVATE HOUSE).

UFFINGTON STATION HARDLY CHANGED AT ALL FROM THE DAY IT OPENED TO THE DAY IT CLOSED, WHICH PROBABLY SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HOW BUSY IT WAS! IT RETAINED SHORT, LOW PLATFORMS RIGHT UP TO CLOSURE. OTHER THAN LOSING SOME CHIMNEYS THE STATION BUILDING IS PRETTY MUCH AS BUILT.

THE OVERLAPPING GATES ARE UNUSUAL........REMARKABLY, IN 2008 THEY ARE STILL IN USE!

A CEMENT TRAIN HEADS EAST THROUGH UFFINGTON IN 1984.

UFFINGTON BALLAST PITS SIDING.  SIGNAL BOX CLOSED 20/9/1970.

THE LOW LYING AREA EAST OF UFFINGTON WAS A GOOD SOURSE OF GRAVEL, USED AS BALLAST. THE PICTURE BELOW SHOES THE SITE OF THE SIDINGS IN 1984. QUARRYING CONTINUES, BUT ROAD TRANSPORT IS USED THESE DAYS.

BAINTON GATE  BETWEEN UFFINGTON & HELPSTON WAS BAINTON GATE CROSSING, WITH THIS ATTRACTIVE CROSSING KEEPER'S COTTAGE. FROM 1/11/1854 THIS OPERATED AS A STATION, BUT IT CLOSED ON 1/8/1856 THROUGH LACK OF TRAFFIC.

HELPSTON  OPENED 2/10/1846, CLOSED 3/5/1965 TO GOODS, 6/6/1966 TO PASSENGERS.

REMAINS AT SITE: STATION HOUSE, GRAIN WAREHOUSE.

OFFICIAL M.R. DRAWING OF THE WAITING SHELTER DATED NOV. 1885.

THE ORIGINAL LOW PLATFORM IN FRONT OF THE STATION BUILDING IS OBVIOUS.

THE M.R. AND G.N.R. SIGNAL BOXES AT HELPSTON.

STATION MASTER'S HOUSE....THIS LOOKS TO BE A LATER STRUCTURE THAN THE STATION BUILDNGS, PRESUMABLY ERECTED BY THE M.R. THE DECORATIVE BARGEBOARDS SUGGEST THE 1870'S AS A LIKELY DATE, PERHAPS 1872 WHEN IMPROVEMENTS WERE DONE AT KETTON STATION.

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