Grandsford

Grandsford is a market town in East Shareham. It lies about 2.5 miles west of Shockstead, and about 5 miles north-east of Shareham town.

Grandsford has a population of about 19 thousand, and has stayed roughly the same in terms of size and population in the past 10 years.

While Shareham as a county has struggled with money in recent years, notably due to the local government corruption which saw the complete collapse of Shareham (then a city), Grandsford hasn't been impacted much. Grandsford is also one of the most deprived semi-urban towns in the south-east, though this status has been present before the Shareham crisis.

Station
Grandsford railway station was completed in 2000 along with the rest of the Stoneham-Bares link. It has three platforms - all in regular use.

Platform 1 is a bay platform in which slow services (calling at most or all stations) usually stay here for a few minutes to allow for fast trains passing by, since the majority of the line is only double track. Typically one slow service runs every hour, or every two hours in the weekends and after 8PM. Platforms 2 and 3 are the main "fast" platforms, with three trains per hour calling. Like nearby Shockstead, Grandsford is a principal station, and most trains stop here. Only in early mornings (5-6:30AM) are there some services which run fast from Stoneham to Shockstead.