Great Central Railway

 

Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Continental services of the Great Central Railway (GCR). An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. Below this is a Fleet List in chronological order.

 

This page is still under construction

 

 

Ships on This Page:-

Accrington - (1910-1951 - 1,629 grt)

Ashton - (1884-1916 - 1,047 grt)

Blackburn - (1910-1910 - 1,634 grt)
Bury - (1910-1958 - 1,634 grt)
City of Bradford - (1903-1936 - 1,340 grt)
City of Leeds - (1903-1936 - 1,341 grt)
Dewsbury - (1910-1959 - 1,631 grt)
Immingham - (1906-1915 - 2,009 grt)

Lincoln - (1883-1914 - 1,075 grt)
Lutterworth - (1891-1932 - 1,002 grt)

Leicester - (1891-1916 - 1,002 grt)
Macclesfield - (1914-1958 - 1,018 grt)
Marylebone - (1906-1932 - 1,972 grt)
Nottingham - (1891-1935 - 1,033 grt)

Oldham - (1889-1913 - 921 grt)
Staveley - (1891-1932 - 1,034 grt)
Stockport - (1911-1943 - 1,637 grt)

Wrexham - (1902-1918 - 1,414 grt)

 

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London & North Eastern Railway - Harwich Services

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Great Central Railway Fleet List

 

 

Ashton (1884-1916 - 1,047 grt) - Leicester (1891-1916 - 1,002 grt)

Lincoln (1883-1914 - 1,075 grt) - Lutterworth (1891-1932 - 1,002 grt)
Nottingham (1891-1935 - 1,033 grt) - Oldham (1889-1913 - 921 grt)
Staveley (1891-1932 - 1,034 grt) - Wrexham (1902-1918 - 1,414 grt)

 

 

A series of similar ships all covered on the one postcard below.

 

 

Superb official GCR art postcard for the older ships in the fleet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

City of Bradford (1903-1936 - 1,340grt)
City of Leeds (1903-1936 - 1,341grt)

 

Two sisters were built in 1903 for the Grimsby-Hamburg route. City of Bradford was sold in 1936 to the Near East Shipping Co, London, and renamed Hanne. City of Leeds was scrapped in 1936.

 

 

Superb official GCR art postcard for City of Bradford (illustrated) and City of Leeds.
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Immingham (1906-1915)

Marylebone (1906-1932)

 

In 1906, the GCR built two new 18 knot steamers Immingham and Marylebone for the Grimsby-Rotterdam. Most of their ships were only capable of 13 knots or less, which was adequate for their leisurely overnight sailings. Immingham and Marylebone each received three direct drive turbines driving triple screws to achieve their high speed. They were not economic in this form, and were soon rebuilt as single-screw ships powered by a triple-expansion engine. At the same time, one of their funnels was removed.

 

 

GCR official postcard of Immingham as built as a triple-screw turbine.

The card was posted in July 1910.

 

 

GCR official postcard of Immingham (illustrated), and Marylebone.

As reuilt with triple expansion engine and one funnel.

 

 

 

 

 

Accrington (1910-1951)

Blackburn (1910-1910)

Bury (1910-1958)

Dewsbury (1910-1959)

Stockport (1911-1943)

 

Accrington, Blackburn, Bury, Dewsbury and Stockport were built in 1910/1911 for the Grimsby-Hamburg route. Blackburn was lost in her first year of service in a collision with the steamer Rock off Sheringham. In 1923, ownership of the remaining four ships passed to the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER). From 1934 management passed to the Associated Humber Lines (AHL) and one of the ships (often Dewsbury) operated the summer-only Hull-Zeebrugge service previously operated by the LYR/LMS with Duke of Clarence and Duke of Connaught. All four ships were used as convoy rescue ships during WW2, and Stockport was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland in 1943. The others returned to service after the war, and they were all scrapped in the 1950s. Accrington and Dewsbury served between Harwich-Antwerp after the war, whilst Bury served between Hull-Rotterdam.

 

 

GCR official postcard of Accrington, Bury (illustrated), Dewsbury and Stockport.

Blackburn had already been lost when the card was issued.

 

 

LNER official postcard of Accrington, Bury (illustrated), Dewsbury and Stockport.

 

 

Later AHL official postcard of Bury.

All three cards use the same image.

 

 

Real photographic postcard of Accrington.

 

 

 

 

 

Macclesfield (1914-1958 - 1,018 grt)

 

 

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