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The home of industrialist, Thomas Johnson, became Runcorn Town Hall, a Grade II listed Italianate building with similarities to Osborne House at East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Elsdon was the location of a gibbet. Gibbeting is the use of a gallows-type structure from which the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hanged on public display to deter other existing or potential criminals. Occasionally, the gibbet was also used as a method of public execution, with the...

The Wartnaby name quite probably derives from the basic Norse word for a farmstead or small village. Another word derived from the Vikings is thwaite, meaning a clearing in a forest and a settlement that’s put there. Bassenthwaite in Cumbria is derived from an Old Norse name meaning Bastun's...

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Wrenbury Church Bridge over the Llangollen Canal is a grade-II*-listed lift bridge built by Thomas Telford. Telford also designed the cast iron Galton Bridge in Smethwick.

Thornton Abbey was also opened by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway. The company amalgamated with the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway; the three being renamed the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire...

Hampton Lovett was also administered by the Clent Hundred.

Altrincham was a court of piepowders was held. It was a special tribunal in England organised by a borough on the occasion of a fair or market. The most recent sitting of a piepowder court was in 1898, in Hemel Hempstead.

Willington is another station managed by a company that has no train services that calling there.

Richmond (London) has also seen Duathlon events. Duathlon is an athletic event that consists of a running leg, followed by a cycling leg and then another running leg in a format similar to triathlons.

Tremadog (formerly Tremadoc) in Gwynedd has also hosted a National Eisteddfod.

Yes, more or less.

No probs. The gates are closed just after the train has departed Boston. I agree. The rail crossing is just as much a challenge. You can't see any vehicles approaching from Boston that are turning left to cross the railway. Very challenging.

You're welcome. It was a shame. The bay platform (was P4 but now P3) had an overall roof, but i believe this was removed during the 1950's.

During the middle of the 19th century the archaeology of caves became a high profile subject with the finding of human remains alongside those of extinct animals. Haverbrack Dog Hole was one such location. Another notable example was Windmill Hill Cavern in Brixham, Devon.

As mentioned about the gates, don't get caught. To access the Up Platform you need to use the gate on the downside, adjacent to the signal box stairs. The upside wicket gate has been locked out of use with a fault for a couple of years now. If you're planning the trip in the morning , then you...

Yes, from my knowledge. The stairs on Platform 1 may be the original, though the rest of the bridge was rebuilt in 1985. Photos available on the Track Through Grantham website...

In June 1853, Colonel Hay arrived at Hythe, Kent, with a small staff of officers to establish the School of Musketry. A separate school of musketry was established at the North Euston Hotel in Fleetwood, Lancashire in 1861, but it closed after just six years.

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Yes. I work a couple of locations where the colour light signals (inc. Distants) are worked by individual switch or can be operated automatically, depending on the aspect of the associated stop signal. You can also get them on NX type signal panels or even on WestCad computer based signalling.