Closed Stations Journey quiz

[A Challenge]

Hovingham Spa

Shouldn't we be heading in the other direction?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Shouldn't we be heading in the other direction?

Indeed so....so the next closed station should be....

Ampleforth

 

[A Challenge]

Coxwold

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Husthwaite Gate

 

[A Challenge]

Brafferton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Should we have called at Pilmoor before Brafferton....or is there an avoiding line?

 

[Calthrop]

Should we have called at Pilmoor before Brafferton....or is there an avoiding line?

I was trying to check just now: Dewick's Complete Atlas shows an avoiding line, "straight through", via a bridge over the East Coast Main -- no other source which I looked at (including Wiki) seems to indicate such a thing.

 

[A Challenge]

I was trying to check just now: Dewick's Complete Atlas shows an avoiding line, "straight through", via a bridge over the East Coast Main -- no other source which I looked at (including Wiki) seems to indicate such a thing.

According to Wikipedia's diagram of the East Coast Main Line, there was a line over the ECML.

 

[Calthrop]

According to Wikipedia's diagram of the East Coast Main Line, there was a line over the ECML.

Ah, yes -- I've seen that one now.

 

[Calthrop]

On the basis of the above few posts, can we take it that there is an avoider, and Pilmoor does not feature?

Brafferton

Boroughbridge (1st station)

 

[A Challenge]

Boroughbridge (2nd station)

 

[Calthrop]

Copgrove

 

[A Challenge]

Knaresborough Hay Park Lane

 

[Calthrop]

Knaresborough Hay Park Lane

At the risk of being extremely annoying: don't we reverse at Knaresborough, and set off along the York line as far as Hessay? I perceive Knaresborough station (open today) as coming before Hay Park Lane, which is the next station in the Leeds direction: so HPL not involved?

 

[A Challenge]

Wikipedia has it as between Knaresborough and the junction with the previous railway, but given it is not necessarily the most reliable, I'll assume you are more likely to be correct

Goldsborough

 

[Ash Bridge]

Hopperton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Wilstrop Siding

 

[Whistler40145]

Marston Moor

 

[A Challenge]

Hessay

 

[DerekC]

Sorry I missed the rest of that one!

I was trying to check just now: Dewick's Complete Atlas shows an avoiding line, "straight through", via a bridge over the East Coast Main -- no other source which I looked at (including Wiki) seems to indicate such a thing.

According to Wikipedia's diagram of the East Coast Main Line, there was a line over the ECML.

On the basis of the above few posts, can we take it that there is an avoider, and Pilmoor does not feature?



Boroughbridge (1st station)

I recall we looked the Pilmoor avoiding line up before and I think the embankments and bridge were built but track never laid. I will check again.

 

[DerekC]

The connection between the Pilmoor, Boroughbridge & Thirsk and the Thirsk & Malton Railways was never completed. It was part of a wider scheme approved in 1866 that also included a west to north curve at Malton to create a competing route to Scarborough. Although the earthworks and bridge over the ECML were completed before the scheme was scrapped, no rails were ever laid. It remains another of those great 'what ifs' of railway history!

This is the most definite information I can find at present.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

We next move to Scotland for the next journey.....

This is number 937 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Macmerry
It follows the line of the NBR Macmerry Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
It then follows the line of the Peebles Railway
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway
It then follows the line of the Border Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Border Counties Railway
It then follows the line of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway...via the North Wylam loop line
It then follows the line of the NER Durham Coast Line
It then follows the line of the Castle Eden Railway...via Thorpe Thewles
It then follows the line of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway...via Thornley
It then follows the line of the Durham and Sunderland Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Ryhope

The first closed station on this journey is Macmerry

 

[A Challenge]

Winton

 

[Calthrop]

This is the most definite information I can find at present.

Memo to self: try and remember, for the next time @Xenophon PCDGS sends us this way (viz. environs of Pilmoor) !

 

[Calthrop]

Winton

Ormiston Junction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Crossgatehall Halt

 

[Whistler40145]

Smeaton

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Eskbank and Dalkeith

 

[A Challenge]

Lasswade Road?

 

[Whistler40145]

Glenesk