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Leeds and Selby Railway

Index Leeds and Selby Railway

The Leeds and Selby Railway was an early British railway company and first mainline railway within Yorkshire. [1]

79 relations: A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, Aberford, Aire and Calder Navigation, Benjamin Gott, Bland baronets, British Rail, Bury Bar Frame locomotive, Bury, Curtis and Kennedy, Castleford, Castleford–Garforth line, Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway, Church Fenton railway station, Clarence Railway, Cross Gates–Wetherby line, Department for Transport, East Coast Main Line, East Garforth railway station, Edward Baines (1800–1890), Edward Bury, Fenton, Murray and Jackson, First TransPennine Express, Flue-gas desulfurization, Francis Whishaw, Garforth railway station, Gascoigne baronets, George Hudson, George Stephenson, Goole, Great North Eastern Railway, Gypsum, History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date, Holbeck, Horseshoe arch, Hull and Selby Railway, James Walker (engineer), John Marshall (disambiguation), Joseph Locke, Ladder track, Leeds, Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Leeds Marsh Lane railway station, Leeds Mercury, Leeds railway station, List of Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, London and North Eastern Railway, London and North Western Railway, Micklefield railway station, Network Rail, Network Rail Control Periods, ..., Neville Hill TMD, Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, Newcastle and North Shields Railway, North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom), North Midland Railway, Northern Rail (Serco-Abellio), Packet trade, Panic of 1825, Rail fastening system, Richmond Hill, Leeds, River Ouse, Yorkshire, Robert Stephenson and Company, Sea Containers, Selby, Selby Canal, Selby Coalfield, Selby Diversion, Selby railway station, Selby–Goole line, Stockton and Darlington Railway, The Pogues, Thomas Kirtley, Turnpike trusts, Warrington, Wetherby, York and North Midland Railway, 0-2-2, 2-2-0, 2-2-2. Expand index (29 more) »

A roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain numbering scheme

List of A roads in zone 6 in Great Britain starting east of the A6 and A7 roads and west of the A1 (road beginning with 6).

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Aberford

Aberford is a large village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

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Aire and Calder Navigation

The Aire and Calder Navigation is the canalised section of the Rivers Aire and Calder in West Yorkshire, England.

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Benjamin Gott

Benjamin Gott (24 June 1762 – 14 February 1840) was one of the leading figures in the industrial revolution, in the field of textiles.

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Bland baronets

The Bland Baronetcy, of Kippax Park in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of England.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Bury Bar Frame locomotive

The Bury Bar Frame locomotive was an early type of steam locomotive, developed at the works of Edward Bury and Company, later named Bury, Curtis, and Kennedy.

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Bury, Curtis and Kennedy

Bury, Curtis and Kennedy was a steam locomotive manufacturer in Liverpool, England.

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Castleford

Castleford is a town in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

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Castleford–Garforth line

The Castleford–Garforth line was a single-track railway line in West Yorkshire, England, connecting Castleford with Garforth east of Leeds.

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Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway

The Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway (CW&SLR) was a short light railway in a rural part of Yorkshire, England.

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Church Fenton railway station

Church Fenton railway station serves Church Fenton in North Yorkshire, England.

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Clarence Railway

The Clarence Railway was an early railway company that operated in north-east England between 1833 and 1853.

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Cross Gates–Wetherby line

The Cross Gates–Wetherby line is a former railway line in West Yorkshire, England, between Cross gates, near Leeds, and Wetherby.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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East Coast Main Line

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is presently electrified along the whole route.

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East Garforth railway station

East Garforth railway station serves Garforth in West Yorkshire, England.

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Edward Baines (1800–1890)

Sir Edward Baines, also known as Edward Baines junior (1800–1890) was a nonconformist English newspaper editor and Member of Parliament.

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Edward Bury

Edward Bury (22 October 1794 – 25 November 1858) was an English locomotive manufacturer.

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Fenton, Murray and Jackson

Fenton, Murray and Jackson was an engineering company at the Round Foundry off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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First TransPennine Express

First TransPennine Express was a British train operating company jointly owned by FirstGroup and Keolis which operated the TransPennine Express franchise.

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Flue-gas desulfurization

Flue-gas desulfurization (FGD) is a set of technologies used to remove sulfur dioxide from exhaust flue gases of fossil-fuel power plants, and from the emissions of other sulfur oxide emitting processes (e.g trash incineration).

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Francis Whishaw

Francis Whishaw (13 July 1804 – October 1856) was an English civil engineer.

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Garforth railway station

Garforth railway station serves the town of Garforth, near Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

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Gascoigne baronets

The Gascoigne Baronetcy, of Barnbow and Parlington in the County of York, was a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

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George Hudson

George Hudson (probably 10 March 1800 – 14 December 1871) was an English railway financier and politician who, because he controlled a significant part of the railway network in the 1840s, became known as "The Railway King" – a title conferred on him by Sydney Smith in 1844.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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Goole

Goole is a town, civil parish and inland port located at junction 36 off the M62 via the A614 and approximately from the North Sea at the confluence of the rivers Don and Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, although historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Great North Eastern Railway

Great North Eastern Railway, often referred to as GNER, was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Sea Containers that operated the InterCity East Coast franchise from April 1996 until December 2007, when Sea Containers was stripped of the franchise due to poor financial management.

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Gypsum

Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O.

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History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

This article is part of a series on the History of rail transport in Great Britain The period from 1995 covers the history of rail transport in Great Britain following the privatisation of British Rail.

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Holbeck

Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Horseshoe arch

The horseshoe arch (Spanish: arco de herradura /ˈarko de eraˈduɾa/), also called the Moorish arch and the keyhole arch, is the emblematic arch of Moorish architecture.

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Hull and Selby Railway

The Hull and Selby Railway is a railway line between Kingston upon Hull and Selby in the United Kingdom which was authorised by an act of 1836 and opened in 1840.

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James Walker (engineer)

James Walker FRSE, FRS (14 September 1781 – 8 October 1862) was an influential Scottish civil engineer.

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John Marshall (disambiguation)

John Marshall (1755–1835) was Chief Justice of the United States.

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Joseph Locke

Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects.

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Ladder track

Ladder track is a type of railway track in which the track is laid on longitudinal supports with transverse connectors holding the two rails at the correct gauge distance.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds and Liverpool Canal

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in Northern England, linking the cities of Leeds and Liverpool.

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Leeds Marsh Lane railway station

Marsh Lane railway station was built as the Leeds terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway.

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Leeds Mercury

The Leeds Mercury was a newspaper published in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds railway station

Leeds railway station (also known as Leeds City railway station) is the mainline railway station serving the city centre of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

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List of Liverpool and Manchester Railway locomotives

This is a list of locomotives that were used or trialled on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) during its construction, at the Rainhill Trials, and until absorption by the Grand Junction Railway in 1845.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was a railway opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Micklefield railway station

Micklefield railway station serves the village of Micklefield, near Garforth in West Yorkshire, England.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Network Rail Control Periods

Network Rail Control Periods are the 5-year timespans into which Network Rail, the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain, works for financial and other planning purposes.

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Neville Hill TMD

Neville Hill is a railway Train Maintenance Depot in Osmondthorpe, Leeds, England on the Leeds to Selby Line.

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Newcastle & Carlisle Railway

The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway (N&CR) was an English railway company formed in 1825 that built a line from Newcastle upon Tyne on Britain's east coast, to Carlisle, on the west coast.

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Newcastle and North Shields Railway

The Newcastle & North Shields Railway opened in June 1839 from a temporary terminus in Carliol Square in Newcastle upon Tyne to North Shields.

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North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom)

The North Eastern Railway (NER) was an English railway company.

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North Midland Railway

The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840.

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Northern Rail (Serco-Abellio)

Northern Rail was an English train operating company owned by Serco-Abellio that operated the Northern franchise from 2004 until 2016.

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Packet trade

Packet trade generally refers to any regularly scheduled cargo, passenger and mail trade conducted by ship.

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Panic of 1825

The Panic of 1825 was a stock market crash that started in the Bank of England, arising in part out of speculative investments in Latin America, including the imaginary country of Poyais.

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Rail fastening system

A rail fastening system is a means of fixing rails to railroad ties (North America) or sleepers (British Isles, Australasia, and Africa).

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Richmond Hill, Leeds

Richmond Hill is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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River Ouse, Yorkshire

The River Ouse is a river in North Yorkshire, England.

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Robert Stephenson and Company

Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823.

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Sea Containers

Sea Containers was a Bermudan registered company which operated two main business areas: transport and container leasing.

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Selby

Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Selby Canal

The Selby Canal is a canal with 2 locks which bypasses the lower reaches of the River Aire in Yorkshire, England, from the village of West Haddlesey to the town of Selby where it joins the River Ouse.

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Selby Coalfield

Selby coalfield (also known as the Selby complex, or Selby 'superpit') was a large-scale deep underground mine complex based around Selby, North Yorkshire, England, with pitheads at Wistow Mine, Stillingfleet Mine, Riccall Mine, North Selby Mine, Whitemoor Mine and at Gascoigne Wood Mine; all coal was brought to the surface and treated at Gascoigne Wood, being distributed onwards by rail.

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Selby Diversion

The Selby Diversion is a mainline railway in the United Kingdom, built as a new part of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) to avoid an area of potential subsidence over the newly discovered Selby Coalfield. The line opened in 1983, running roughly northwest from a junction on the ECML near Temple Hirst, south of Selby, to a junction near Church Fenton, south of York. As of 2015, the line is used primarily by long-distance north-south services, as well as some freight trains. Most freight trains have been diverted from the line by the opening of the North Doncaster Chord Project which was completed in June 2014.

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Selby railway station

Selby railway station is a Grade II listed station which serves the town of Selby in North Yorkshire, England.

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Selby–Goole line

The Selby–Goole line was a standard gauge branch line connecting Selby and Goole, built in 1910 by the North Eastern Railway.

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Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) was a railway company that operated in north-east England from 1825 to 1863.

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The Pogues

The Pogues were an Irish-British Celtic punk band formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan.

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Thomas Kirtley

Thomas Kirtley (20 February 1811 – 16 November 1847) was locomotive superintendent of the North Midland Railway and later the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

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Turnpike trusts

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Warrington

Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester.

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Wetherby

Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England.

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York and North Midland Railway

The York and North Midland Railway (Y&NMR) was an English railway company that opened in 1839 connecting York with the Leeds and Selby Railway, and in 1840 extended this line to meet the North Midland Railway at Normanton near Leeds.

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0-2-2

An 0-2-2, in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is one that has two coupled driving wheels followed by two trailing wheels, with no leading wheels.

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2-2-0

Under Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and no trailing wheels.

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2-2-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_and_Selby_Railway

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