Trains at Retford (ECML, ShLL) - 03&05/04/2024

The 221st video of my train spotting adventures.
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This video contains two halves from two days over the trips around Sheffield, due to certain timing constraints (I will be returning to do a better Retford video in the future!), with various trains at Retford railway station. A mid-sized, 4-platform DfT Category C2 "Important Feeder" rail station, the present buildings aren't the first to be situated in the region. The first station at Retford was built in July 1849 at Thrumpton, built by the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway (S&LJR) between Sheffield (Bridgehouses) and Gainsborough; part of this station building still survives, known as "The Old Station House".
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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) from Doncaster arrived in September 1849, crossing over the S&LJR as seen today. It used the Thrumpton station until its own was complete on lands east of the Ordsall Line (now West Carr Road) in 1852. Several new streets were built to connect the station to the existing town, including Queen Street, Victoria Road, Station Road and Albert Road. On 1 July 1859, the S&LJR (now the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway; MS&LR) began using the GNR station via a short connecting curve and closed its original station. Prior to station remodelling, there was another platform (Platform 2, the present day P2 being Platform 3), which was on the Platform 1 side of the island platform seen today; this was used by the S&LJR trains via the aforementioned curve.
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The lower-level platforms (originally Platforms 4 & 5, now 3 & 4) were added when the flat crossing curve was removed and a bridge was put in place for the S&LJR line in 1965, with the Sheffield to Gainsborough line lowered as a result to pass underneath the GNR lines. These works also involved the removal of the direct north-to-east curve; the curve connecting the Sheffield-Gainsborough tracks to the present day Platform 2 still exists, and is still used by a very limited amount of trains to this day.
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Filmed on the:
East Coast Mainline
Sheffield-Lincoln Line
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Services seen:
LNER) Services towards Doncaster, Wakefield Westgate, Leeds, Harrogate, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Newark North Gate, Grantham, Peterborough, Stevenage and London Kings Cross.
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GC) Services towards Doncaster, Pontefract Monkhill, Wakefield Kirkgate, Mirfield, Halifax, Bradford Interchange, York, Northallerton and Sunderland.
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HT) Services towards Doncaster, Selby, Howden, Brough, Hull Paragon, Grantham, Peterborough, Stevenage and London Kings Cross.
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NT) Services towards Gainsborough Lea Road, Lincoln Central, Gainsborough Central, Brigg, Barnetby, Grimsby Town, Cleethorpes, Worksop, Sheffield, and onwards to Leeds.
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Trains seen:
LNER) Class 91 & DVT, Class 800/801 Azuma's
GC) Class 180 Adelante
HT) Class 802 Paragon
NT) Class 195 Civity
NR) DR74002 Rail Tamper Unit
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