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York to Scarborough railway showing closed stations. The line was built by George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway and opened on 7 July 1845. [1] The line was constructed remarkably quickly by the standards of the time, taking just one year and three days to complete the 42-mile route.
York Ouse Bridge This is a list of current bridges and other crossings of the River Ouse in Yorkshire, and are listed from Ouse Gill Beck downstream to the river's mouth. The River Ouse is listed on mapping as starting where the Ouse Gill Beck enters the River Ure, just south of the village of Great Ouseburn , ( SE473604 ). [ 1 ]
Parliament passed the York (Skeldergate Bridge) Improvement Act 1875, [21] after the city had determined that over 800 people were using the Skeldergate ferry crossing daily. It was designed in a Gothic Revival style by civil engineer George Gordon Page , and built between 1878 and 1881.
The Cross Country Route is a long-distance railway route in England, which runs from Bristol Temple Meads to York via Birmingham New Street, Derby, Sheffield and Leeds or Doncaster. Inter-city services on the route, which include some of the longest passenger journeys in the UK such as Aberdeen to Penzance, are operated by CrossCountry.
The table contains a list of the 68 tripoints for the ceremonial counties of England as per the Lieutenancies Act 1997, as amended. Also included are the three points at which two counties meet the borders with Wales and Scotland. For each tripoint the counties are ordered with the first alphabetically given first, and the counties listed anti ...
The Anglo-Scottish border in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the problem of perspective" In: Appleby, J.C. and Dalton, P. (Eds) Government, religion and society in Northern England 1000-1700, Stroud : Sutton, ISBN 0-7509-1057-7, p. 27–39; Crofton, Ian (2014) Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England, Birlinn
A map of York, 1611. In 1644, during the Civil War, the Parliamentarians besieged York, and many medieval houses outside the city walls were lost. The barbican at Walmgate Bar was undermined and explosives laid, but the plot was discovered. On the arrival of Prince Rupert, with an army of 15,000 men, the siege was lifted.
In the 1930s a Sunday train began to run on the line, an excursion service from York to the coast at Bridlington. [41] The level-crossing on the busy York to Scarborough trust road (later A64) was grade separated in the 1930s. [citation needed] Holtby station closed for passengers in September 1939. [42]