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Spalding Signal Box seen here on the 9th July 2011. Originally Spalding No1 Signal Box it was one of two large signal boxes opened in 1921 to control the station and its approaches. Spalding No. 1 is situated at the south end of the station and originally controlled the level crossing and the junctions to the Wisbech, March and Bourne. Although the box appears to be a wooden operating floor mounted on a brick base it is in actual fact an all wooden structure and the brick work was added around the base of the original structure for blast protection during the Second World War and it does not support the operating floor. The box was originally fitted with a Tyer and Co. Duplex tappet frame however this was replaced by a panel in 1984 when Spalding No 2 box was abolished and the whole of the station area controlled from Spalding No 1. The structure has recently be refurbished with new window frames at the near end and the windows along the front at the far end replaced by PVC planking. This has completely altered the appearance of the box and with brick blast wall and refurbished top half it now bears no visual likeness to the 1921 original structure.

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55002 'KOYLI' has just come off 'The Joint' from March and is approaching Spalding station with 'The Deltic Fenman' Railtour on 4th May 1981.

The train would reverse here, before heading for Peterborough and The Nene Valley Railway.

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vandalism at oak hill cemetery griffin georgia

Former railway bridge for the closed M&GN route. The railway long pre-dated the Coronation Channel which opened in 1953. Unlike in the mapping's tendency to attribute most bits of Spalding as Clay Lake, this really is in the Clay Lake area of the town.

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The 'Joint Line' side at Spalding - guess at 1969 [scanned slide]

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old pool hall in downtown griffin georgia

Spalding Railway Station

Spalding Station opened on the 17th October 1848 by the Great Northern Railway, once an important junction station it now only serves the Lincoln to Peterborough Line.

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The 8th of May 1982 and Class 46 46009 has arrived at Spalding on a Merrymaker from Kings Cross.

Just passing an unlikely bunch of Tulip fans on the up platform is what looks like an irate member of staff heading in the direction of the photographer!

The loco was new from Derby Works to the local shed as D146 in December 1961. She was the unfortunate loco chosen for the Old Dalby staged crash into the Nuclear Fuel Container in 1984 and the remains were broken up on site by Vic Berry.

Image from a slide in my collection taken by an unknown photographer.

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On 31 March 1987, a 114 stops at Spalding on the 1230 Doncaster - Cambridge.

Maritime Shed no. 66051 turns on the power with 4L45 10.04 Wakefield Europort - Felixstowe Inter-modal

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GBRF's 66718 'Sir Peter Hendy' has charge of the 4L11 11.38 Masborough - Felixstowe North inter-modal service.

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Heads Off To Monk Bretton Redfearns Gbrf To Form The 6L64 19.45 Monk Bretton Redfearns Gbrf To March Up Yard Gbrf According To Realtime Trains The Route And Timings Were

Monk Bretton Redfearns Gbrf 19.45 . 19.42 3E

Monk Bretton Loop 19.48 No Report

Royston Jn 19.57 No Report

Oakenshaw South Jn 20.05 No Report

Crofton East Jn 20.08 . 20.07 1E

Streethouse 20.10 1/2 . 20.12 1L

Featherstone 20.12 1/2 . 20.14 1L

Pontefract Tanshelf 20.15 . 20.16 1/2 1L

Pontefract Monkhill 20.16 . 20.17 1/2 1L

Pontefract East Junction 20.21 . 20.19 1/4 1E

Knottingley West Jn 20.24 1/2 . 20.21 3E

Knottingley South Jn 20.25 1/2 . 20.22 3/4 2E

Norton Level Crossing 20.32 1/2 . 20.29 3/4 2E

Haywood Jn 20.35 1/2 . 20.34 1/2 RT

Shaftholme Jn 20.39 To 20.41 1/2 20.34 . 20.36 3/4 4E

Arksey Loop 20.47 . 20.46 1/4 RT

Donc. Marshgate Jn 20.50 . 20.49 3/4 RT

Doncaster 20.51 . 21.01 1/4 10L

St James Jn 20.53 No Report

Doncaster Robert Rds Shed 20.58 To 21.51 1/2 20.58 . 21.51 RT

St James Jn 21.56 1/2 No Report

Bridge Jn 21.57 1/2 . 22.13 15L

Decoy Nth Jn 22.00 . 22.16 16L

Doncaster Down Decoy Gbrf 22.03 To 22.09 No Report

Doncaster Decoy South Jcn 22.11 . 22.18 1/4 7L

Bessacarr Jn 22.12 . 22.19 3/4 7L

Beckingham Loop 22.27 1/2 No Report

Gainsborough Trent Jns 22.30 . 22.43 1/4 13L

Gainsborough Lea Road 22.31 1/2 . 22.46 3/4 15L

Stow Park 22.37 . 22.54 16L

Saxilby 22.42 1/2 . 22.59 3/4 17L

Pyewipe Jn 22.47 1/2 . 23.04 3/4 17L

West Holmes Jn 22.48 1/2 . 23.06 1/4 17L

Lincoln Central 22.51 . 23.17 3/4 26L

Pelham Street Jn 22.51 1/2 . 23.18 26L

Metheringham 23.02 1/2 . 23.29 1/2 27L

Ruskington 23.10 1/2 . 23.38 1/2 28L

Sleaford North Jn 23.13 . 23.41 1/2 28L

Sleaford South Jn 23.14 1/2 . 23.43 1/2 29L

Quadring Signal Ws7070 23.25 1/2 . 23.55 1/2 30L

Spalding 23.33 . 00.04 1/2 31L

Littleworth 23.39 1/2 . 00.11 3/4 32L

Werrington Jn 23.50 . 00.21 3/4 31L

New England Nth Jn 23.57 . 00.25 28L

Peterborough Virtual Gbrf 00.01 To 01.05 01.05 . 01.21 16L

P'boro Eastfield Jn 01.07 No Report

Spital South Junction P458 01.08 No Report

Peterborough 01.09 1/2 . 01.23 3/4 14L

Peterborough East Jn 01.11 . 01.25 3/4 14L

Whittlesea 01.17 . 01.32 15L

Three Horse Shoes 01.21 No Report

March West Jn 01.26 No Report

March East Jn 01.26 1/2 No Report

March 01.26 1/2 . 01.43 16L

March South 01.28 1/2 To 01.32 No Report

March Up Yard Gbrf 01.37 . 01.48 11L

On 28 June 1992, 156415 has arrived at Spalding on the 1508 from Peterborough; it will return at 1540.

The interior of Spalding No.1 box in 1981, showing the (majority) of the Tyer & Co. Duplex Tappet frame of 80 levers, which must have been one of the largest frames manufactured by this small company. This box opened on 11th September 1921 and as well as controlling the lines exiting at the southern end of Spalding station, also had to supervise the adjacent busy road crossing.

At the far end can be seen one of the two pedestals each with 2 pairs of minature levers which controlled the 8 crossing gates across four lines electrically. The gate wheel was retained to work the gates if any of the electric motors failed.

The frame was shortened to just 40 levers in July 1984 following the closure of Spalding No.2 box.

This is a Peterborough based ADL Enviro 400MMC, loading for a 37 service to Peterborough.

About to depart with the 15.47 505 service for King's Lynn, this Optare Tempo was formerly Norfolk Green no.109, now Stagecoach 25121.

Behind is Fowlers Citybus E207 GCG on a schools service, seen in the previous upload of pictures.

The river Welland running through Spalding - Lincolnshire aerial image

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Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens

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Freightliner's 66512 heads the 09.14 Ipswich Loco - Lindsey fuel oil empties.

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Mums and Tots Group Spalding style - 13th February 1982.

The 10.29 Doncaster - Cambridge approaches Welland Bridge signal box on the now closed 'Joint' line.

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On the train from Peterborough North to Grimsby Town just prior to the complete closure of the East Lincolnshire Railway

Signalbox diagram from Spalding No. 2 from early 1970s until 1986.

Spalding was a crossroads on the railway map, on the GN mainline from Peterborough to Boston. It was crossed by the GN/GE Joint Line, which ran from March and on towards Sleaford and Lincoln. The town was also crossed by the M&GN Joint Line.

Both of the joint lines converged south of Spalding No.1 signalbox which was at the level crossing on the opposite end of the station. That box still survives in a greatly rationalised state. The GN line closed north of Spalding in 1971 leaving only the Joint Line branching off as seen on this diagram. The road at the top of the diagram with the double ended arrow was originally the Up Goods Loop on the GN main line. Below this is the former Up Main, truncated at a buffer stop and the Down Main has been removed completely. The curious connection of the Up Loop to the Up Main on the left hand end was configured to keep access to a rail served sugar beet factory that was situated about a mile north of the town. By connecting it up in this way allowed it to be treated as a siding, without the hassle of reconfiguring and resignalling the main station area. At this set of points was also the site of the former Spalding No.3 signalbox, also covering the Pinchbeck Road Level Crossing.

There was originally a further island platform on the Down Joint line with the back face provided for trains from the M&GN to originate.

The diagram shows signs of alterations using the later BR 'red light style' of diagram symbols overlaid onto the LNER 'white light style' diagram. The arrows are of the later style and 67 signal is drawn with a parallel stem. 64 bracket originally had a second doll, of identical height that controlled the access onto the former down line. www.eastanglianrailwayarchive.co.uk/Railways/March-to-Spa... You can see that the down main continued straight on from the Up Joint. I suspect that the gentle reverse curve in the centre of the diagram hints at a redraw of an earlier track layout, possibly to avoid conflicting up train crossing movements prior to the station. Looking at photos of the geometry of the remaining track in situ at this time also shows that there may have been a further connection from the down main platform 3 beyond 67 signal directly out onto the up joint and thence becoming the down main to permit parallel departures from the Main and Joint lines.

Some interesting photos and history here www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/spalding/index.shtml

I have added colour to an office copy of the diagram and redrawn the top right hand corner.

Today, only the two up platform faces remain in use, with only a double track line passing through a greatly rationalised site.

On 5 August 2017, 153384 leaves Spalding on the 1529 Newark North Gate - Peterborough.

Spalding buses in the 1970s, and the beginning of the NBC era. The long-defunct route 20 to Grantham via Bourne and Corby Glen is seen crossing the railway in Winsover Road. In this picture the level-crossing has been reduced from four tracks with eight gates to two with four and the complex approach signalling has been replaced by a route indicator on a single stop/distant signal.

Wonderful sky!

Aerial of Spalding in Lincolnshire UK

Some track relaying is obviously scheduled here for the weekend!

31192 is stabled with a ballast train - 27th June 1981.

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Spalding

[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:

Photograph shows Albert Spalding (1888-1953), an American violinist and composer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

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Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517

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Call Number: LC-B2- 5956-3

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Spalding

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29679

Call Number: LC-B2- 5065-11

Built in 1839 as the main building of the now defunct St. Joseph's College.

The Roots Family Picnic for Metromix

With her beautiful voice and smooth style, Grammy Winner Esperanza Spalding gave a stunning performance. I've got more to come from this set later.

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Springfields Sculpture Garden

Almshouses, Church Street

Church Street. Ye Olde Coach and Horses inn (right).

Privately owned, operated by Fragonset Railways, Class 31/1 31106 "SPALDING TOWN" diesel-electric locomotive heads North light engine through Carlisle Citadel railway station on the West Coast Main Line.