The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. Reaching into the coalfields of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, as well as establishing dominance in Lincolnshire and North London. The Granary (goods-shed), shows at one end the canal at Battlebridge, London, under the centre of the platform the boats can thus come into the shed and have goods of all kinds to or from the railway trucks as the case maybe.