EAW016458 ENGLAND (1948). The Northern Rubber Co Ltd Works on Thrumpton Lane, Retford, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.

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Title [EAW016458] The Northern Rubber Co Ltd Works on Thrumpton Lane, Retford, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.
Reference EAW016458
Date 9-June-1948
Link
Place name RETFORD
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 470668, 380410
Longitude / Latitude -0.93911695017992, 53.315628916792
National Grid Reference SK707804

Pins

? 2ndWW communal surface blast shelter?

redmist
Tuesday 19th of April 2022 09:49:17 PM
? 2ndWW communal surface blast shelter?

redmist
Tuesday 19th of April 2022 09:48:53 PM
? 2ndWW communal surface blast shelter?

redmist
Tuesday 19th of April 2022 09:48:35 PM
? 2ndWW communal surface blast shelters?

redmist
Tuesday 19th of April 2022 09:48:15 PM
This signal is placed on the wrong side of the track so as to provide better sighting. This one has a "distant" signal underneath the "home" signal. Look up the rails and see a goods train coming from the Worksop direction and after crossing the E.C.M.L., its going towards Lincoln.

John Wass
Friday 30th of October 2020 02:46:01 PM
A "flat crossing" where the ex Great Central line, Sheffield to Lincoln line crosses the ex Great Northern East Coast Main Line.

John Wass
Saturday 9th of December 2017 07:17:11 PM
"Flat Crossings" were anathema to Britain's railways and largely avoided. The two most notorious were at Retford and Newark. The one at Retford was replaced with a "dive under" in 1965. The layout at Newark would entail stratospheric costs to replace, so it has never happened.



Despite this aversion, the "Cae Pawb" flat crossing in Porthmadog, Wales (which was closed before WW2) has been rebuilt and was reopened in 2010.



I am open to correction, but the only flat crossings in Great Britain were at Widnes, Earlestown, Retford, Newark, Pontop Crossing (Tyneside), Murrow (Cambidgeshire) and Cae Pawb. Only Newark and Cae Pawb survive.

DaveH
Friday 10th of November 2023 11:09:11 PM