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Kirkby Bentinck Railway Station
Kirkby Bentinck railway station is a former station on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway which served the town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England from 1893 to 1963. History Kirkby Bentinck railway station was on the Annesley branch of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later the Great Central Railway on the section between Nottingham Victoria and Sheffield Victoria. The station was opened in January 1893 and closed in March 1963 after 70 years in service. Until 1 August 1925 it was named Kirkby & Pinxton station, and it appeared on Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ... maps as Kirkby & Bentinck station. Nothing remains of Kirkby Bentinck station apart from two concrete poles that held the station sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkby-in-Ashfield
Kirkby-in-Ashfield is a market town in the Ashfield District of Nottinghamshire, England. With a population of 25,265 (according to the 2001 National Census), it is a part of the wider Mansfield Urban Area. Kirkby-in-Ashfield lies on the eastern edge of the Erewash Valley which separates Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The Head Offices of Ashfield District Council are located on Urban Road in the town centre. Etymology Kirkby, as it is locally known, was originally a Danish settlement (Kirk-by translates as 'Church Town' in Danish) and is a collection of small villages including Old Kirkby, The Folly (East Kirkby), Nuncargate and Kirkby Woodhouse. It is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' and has two main churches: St Wilfrid's, a Norman church, which was gutted by fire on 6 January 1907 but quickly re-built; and St Thomas', built in the early 1910s in neo-gothic style. History Kirkby Manor Kirkby Manor dated back to the 13th Century. Its owner in 1284 Robert de Stute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was also a more general and nationwide need in light of the potential threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1 April 2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a state-owned enterprise, government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. It was also a member of the Public Data Group. Paper maps represent only 5% of the company's annual revenue. It produces digital map data, online route planning and sharing services and mobile apps, plus many other location-based products for business, government and consumers. Ordnance Survey mapping is usually classified as either "Scale (map), lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Great Central Railway Stations
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Central Main Line
The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension is a former main line railway in the United Kingdom. The line was opened in 1899, built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), which had been renamed the Great Central Railway (GCR) in August 1897, prior to the line's opening. It ran from Sheffield Victoria railway station, Sheffield in the North of England, southwards through Nottingham Victoria railway station, Nottingham and Leicester Central railway station, Leicester to Marylebone station, Marylebone in London. The GCML was the last main line railway to be built in Britain during the Victorian era, Victorian period. It was built by the railway entrepreneur Edward Watkin with the aim to run as a fast trunk route from the North and the East Midlands to London and the south of England. Initially not a financial success, it recovered under the leadership of Sam Fay. Although initially planned for long-distance passenger services, in pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibshelf Town Railway Station
Tibshelf Town railway station is a disused station on the former Great Central Main Line in the village of Tibshelf in Derbyshire, England. History The station was opened on 2 January 1893 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later part of the Great Central Railway; it became subsequently the LNER on its line from Beighton, on the outskirts of Sheffield, to Annesley in Nottinghamshire, which later became part of the Great Central main line to London. The station was optimistically designated ''Tibshelf Town'', reflecting the village's aspirations to obtain official town status. Tibshelf never did become a town, but the station kept this name throughout its operating life. The line ran through a mainly industrial landscape dominated by mining. To the north of the station was a deep cutting where a tunnel was originally intended; fears of damage through mining subsidence forced the change in the plans. Tibshelf High Street crossed a bridge over this cutting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollin Well And Annesley Railway Station
Hollinwell and Annesley (previously Hollin Well and Annesley) is a former station on the Great Central Railway on the section between Nottingham Victoria and Sheffield Victoria. The station was opened in November 1901 and closed in September 1962, one of the earliest closures on the section from Nottingham to Sheffield. History The halt initially known as Hollin Well and Annesley opened on the London extension of the Great Central Railway on 1 November 1901, serving Notts Golf Club's new Hollinwell golf course; the club had guaranteed £200 a year in receipts. The station had two wooden platforms and a wooden footbridge on the south edge of the golf course with no road access. Initially, two trains a day were timetabled in ''Bradshaw's Guide ''Bradshaw's'' was a series of Rail transport, railway Public transport timetable, timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield Victoria Railway Station
Sheffield Victoria was the main railway station in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on the Great Central Railway, History Early history Engineered by Joseph Locke, the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway linking Manchester and Sheffield opened in 1845. Originally, this line terminated at the Bridgehouses railway station, Bridgehouses station, which was about to the west of the future Victoria station. In 1847, the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway merged with two other railway companies to form the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. The station at Bridgehouses had been outgrown, so an extension and new station were planned. Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, John Fowler, who later gained fame for co-designing the Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland, was employed to engineer the extension and station. Fowler's design included a Wicker Arches, viaduct over the Wicker that was high, long and two island platforms long. The extension wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashfield District
Ashfield () is a local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. The council is based in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, but the largest town is neighbouring Sutton-in-Ashfield. The district also contains the town of Hucknall and a few villages. The district is mostly urban, with some of its settlements forming parts of both the Nottingham and Mansfield Urban Areas. The neighbouring districts are Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Gedling, Nottingham, Broxtowe, Amber Valley and Bolsover. History The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole of two former districts, most of Hucknall Urban District and of parts of a fourth, which were all abolished at the same time: * Basford Rural District (parishes of Annesley, Felley and Selston only) *Hucknall Urban District * Kirkby in Ashfield Urban District *Sutton in Ashfield Urban District The new district was named Ashfield, being the shared suffix of two of the towns' names. Governance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Victoria Railway Station
Nottingham Victoria railway station was a Great Central Railway and Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Great Northern Railway railway station in Nottingham, England. It was designed by the architect Albert Edward Lambert, who also designed the rebuild of the Nottingham Midland station (now known simply as Nottingham station). It was opened by the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on 24 May 1900 and closed on 4 September 1967 by the London Midland Region, London Midland Region of British Railways. The station building was entirely demolished (except the clock tower), and the Victoria Centre, Nottingham, Victoria Centre shopping centre was built on the site, incorporating the old station clock tower into the main entrance on Milton Street (the continuation of Mansfield Road). Background In 1893 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway obtained authorisation to extend its North Midlands railway network into London. This new line was opened on 15 March 1899 (by whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annesley Railway Station
Annesley railway station was a station in Annesley, Nottinghamshire, England. It was opened in 1874 to serve the mining village of Annesley, which had grown following the opening of Annesley colliery in 1865. It was closed in 1953 and the line closed to passengers in 1964. The station did not reopen as part of the Robin Hood Line project in the 1990s. History Opened by the Midland Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, which closed it five years later. Stationmasters *R. Grice 1874 - 1878 *Henry Harding 1878 - 1888 *Henry Robinson 1889 - 1919 *W.C. Stephenson 1935 - 1942 (formerly station master at Asfordby, afterwards station master at Codnor Park and Ironville) *F.J. Toghill 1942 *B.V.Wall 1953 (Subsequently Swanwick Junction Station, then 1959 Station Master, Salima, Nyasaland (now Malawi) and then 1964 Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
