{"id":940,"date":"2025-03-22T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T12:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=940"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:38:59","slug":"railwayana-mslr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-mslr\/","title":{"rendered":"MS&amp;LR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Formed in 1847 with the intention of linking Manchester with Grimbsy, the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire (MS&amp;L &#8211; known at the time as the &#8216;Money Sunk and Lost&#8217;, owing to its lack of profit) morphed into the Great Central Railway (GC &#8211; &#8216;Gone Completely&#8217;)  in 1897, which again was not hugely profitable. It became part of  the London &amp; North Eastern Railway in 1923.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester Sheffield &amp; Lincolnshire Fire Hydrant plate\" class=\"wp-image-928\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH-1024x771.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH-768x578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MSLRFH.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Manchester Sheffield &#038; Lincolnshire Fire Hydrant plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formed in 1847 with the intention of linking Manchester with Grimbsy, the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire (MS&amp;L &#8211; known at the time as the &#8216;Money Sunk and Lost&#8217;, owing to its lack of profit) morphed into the Great Central Railway (GC &#8211; &#8216;Gone Completely&#8217;) in 1897, which again was not hugely profitable. It became part &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-mslr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MS&amp;LR<\/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-940","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}