{"id":1163,"date":"2025-06-09T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=1163"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:51:45","slug":"railwayana-great-central-railway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-great-central-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Central Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>In 1897 the Manchester Sheffield &amp; Lincolnshire Railway changed its name to the Great Central Railway, as it expanded its operations towards London (Marylebone).  Under neither name was the railway a great financial success &#8211; wags proclaimed that its name changed from <strong>M<\/strong>oney <strong>S<\/strong>unk &amp; <strong>L<\/strong>ost to <strong>G<\/strong>one <strong>C<\/strong>ompletely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The GCR became part of the LNER group in 1923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"GCR Trespass\" class=\"wp-image-1160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass-1024x590.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass-768x442.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GCR-Trespass.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">GCR Trespass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1897 the Manchester Sheffield &amp; Lincolnshire Railway changed its name to the Great Central Railway, as it expanded its operations towards London (Marylebone). Under neither name was the railway a great financial success &#8211; wags proclaimed that its name changed from Money Sunk &amp; Lost to Gone Completely. The GCR became part of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-great-central-railway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Central Railway<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1163\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}