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If you had the time, you could go through all the entries on the Disused Stations web site. For example, here you can see a station which is now a school sports hall.

As a Howden resident, I can confirm this. The (free) car park is always full, and there are usually cars parked on verges and down lanes either side of the station. I've talked to Hull Trains passengers from Pocklington, Market Weighton - even Great Driffield - for whom the free parking and the...

The maps in my 1842 Bradshaw

I helped set up and manage the Community Charge/Poll Tax for a large city in northern England. Problems with administration and collection had been pointed out by the Local Authority associations, but this was a time when Central government wasn't listening. We knew it would be a failure...

Saltmarshe station is in the village of Laxton.

I've been reading the 1964 Labour Party manifesto (available here) First, a couple of quotes that seem to have been written by different people:- (snip)...chaos in our transport system. with unused rail and overused road services and an appalling congestion problem in all our cities...

Fraser was in office for 15 months - give or take a week or so. Dividing his time into 3 month periods, we get:- 1st - 135 2nd - 137 3rd - 52 4th - 15 5th - 13 So it seems that once he got his feet under the desk properly, the number of closures dropped off dramatically.

Just for fun, here are some figures... Stations in the Beeching Report Appendix 'B', England and Wales only Closures by successive Ministers of Transport Marples (Con) 246 Fraser (Lab) 352 Castle (Lab) 303 Since they were in office for differing periods, these are the average...

Referring to 1963, when he started using the station regularly, Martin Bairstow writes (Railways Through Airedale & Wharfedale, 1985) "In order to service about 75 passengers each weekday, Apperley Bridge boasted a station master, two clerks, two leading porters, a junior porter to clean the...

A while ago I went through Quick looking at station closing dates (England and Wales only). This is a summary of that data:- Closed after nationalisation but before Beeching (1947-1963) - 1,834 In Beeching appendix A and closed (1964-1974) - 371 In Beeching appendix A and not closed...

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I think the query has been fully answered, but I've got a copy of Dow and I'll look it up if any more information is required.

It appears the station still existed in 1849... JOCKS LODGE: used for viewing platform by boys of George Heriot’s Hospital when Royal Train passed through in 1849 (D.Cattanach, Journal of the North British Railway Study Group No.102) from Quick supplement 3

No mention of Roe Green in Quick (book) or pdf supplements 1-4

If you can get to the NRM in York, the library has a huge range of books, as well as a complete set of the Railway Magazine. Copyright may be a problem, although the older the photograph the less likely this is.

According to Quick, opening date was by 1st September 1847 when first in company tt, and closing date probably 1st July 1848 (source - Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations). This is as exact as I can find.

According to Martin Bairstow (Railways in East Yorkshire) "... in 1953 the first continental style level crossing with lifting barriers was installed at Warthill." He goes on to say that contracts were placed in 1960 for equipment that would have modernised all the level crossings on the...

I think it's brilliant. I'm pretty sure it's a parody of Byron, and he manages to keep the rhyme scheme and the meter consistent without it seeming forced.

Rugby and Stamford Railway authorised June 18, 1846 by the London and Birmingham - source Carter as previously. The Uppingham branch opened to the public 1st October 1894 (school specials a few days earlier - source Quick). Seaton and Uppingham was renamed Seaton in the LNWR timetable 1883 so...

Author - Ernest Carter Publisher - Cassell Published 1959 - no ISBN You can probably pick up a copy via Abebooks