Eggborough Power Station , built in the 1960s and now owned by British Energy . Its 4 turbines can ... Bowmans Flour Mill. Close to Eggborough is the site of French owned Saint Gobain Glass, Europe s leading ... within the boundaries of North Yorkshire, the postal address for Eggborough is Eggborough, Near Goole ... Pontefract, West Yorkshire . It has a Parish Council consisting of seven members. Eggborough is represented .... John is also the North Yorkshire County Councillor for the ward which includes Eggborough. The village also has its own football team called The Eggborough Eagles, which is based at the Eggborough Sports and Leisure Complex. External links Commons category inline Eggborough Use dmy dates ... geo stub fr Eggborough it Eggborough nl Eggborough pl Eggborough ... more details
Infobox power station name Eggborough power station image Eggborough Power Station geograph.org.uk 349053.jpg image caption Eggborough Power Station br small Viewed from the south in February 2007 small ...?pid 97 Official website as of extra gbmapping SE576242 Eggborough Power Station is a large ... its name from the nearby village of Eggborough . The station has a generating capacity of 1,960 ... for, and initially operated by, the Central Electricity Generating Board . History Eggborough Power ... BE Eggborough The station comprises four 500 megawatt MW coal fired units, giving the station a total ... cite web url http www.british energy.com documents Apprenticeship Scheme Eggborough info.pdf title Modern Apprenticeship in Engineering at Eggborough Power Station work British Energy format PDF accessdate 3 November 2009 ref ref name BE Eggborough cite web url http www.british energy.com pagetemplate.php?pid 97 title Eggborough publisher British Energy accessdate 2008 06 13 ref The station has ... BE ALSTOM cite web url http www.power.alstom.com eLibrary presentation upload 105542.pdf title Eggborough ... of the industry in 1990. British Energy bought Eggborough Power Station, as its only coal fired power ... 2001. The purchase of Eggborough occurred at the peak of the market for power stations, and in 2002 ... Energy. ref name hedge cite web url http uk.reuters.com article 2009 08 27 edf eggborough idUKLNE57Q02H20090827 title Hedge funds to buy EDF s Eggborough power plant first Tom last Freke coauthors ... ref On 1 April 2010, EDF transferred Eggborough to the plant s bondholders. ref cite news url http www.bloomberg.com news 2010 04 01 edf transfers eggborough plant to bondholders after buying british energy.html title EDF Transfers Eggborough Plant to Bondholders After Buying British Energy author ... reflist External links Commons category Eggborough Power Station http www.british energy.com pagetemplate.php?pid 97 Eggborough , British Energy Yorkshire Powerstations Category Buildings and structures ... more details
Infobox UK station symbol rail name Whitley Bridge code WBD image name Whitley Bridge railway station AB1.JPG manager Northern Rail locale Eggborough borough Selby district Selby platforms 2 latitude 53.699100 longitude 1.158900 gridref SE556228 start lowusage0405 1,852 lowusage0506 decrease 1,732 lowusage0607 increase 1,753 lowusage0708 decrease 727 lowusage0809 increase 950 lowusage0910 decrease 680 Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley, North Yorkshire Whitley in North Yorkshire , England . It is located on the Pontefract Line and is convert 20 mi km east of Leeds railway station . Services Whitley Bridge is served by a limited service Monday to Saturdays, one early evening train a day goes to Goole railway station Goole and two per day go to Leeds one in the morning business peak and the other mid evening . There is no Sunday service. External links commonscat inline s rail start noclear yes s rail title National Rail s rail national previous Knottingley next Hensall toc Northern Rail route Pontefract Line notemid Mondays Saturdays only end Category Railway stations in North Yorkshire Category Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Category Railway stations served by Northern Rail Category DfT Category F2 stations Yorkshire Humber railstation stub nl Station Whitley Bridge ... more details
Cridling Stubbs is a village and a civil parish in the Selby district Selby District, in the England English county of North Yorkshire . It is near the town of Knottingley . Its population is 152. Location grid br NSEW Knottingley Stapleton, Selby Stapleton Eggborough Darrington, West Yorkshire Darrington References http www.cridling stubbs.co.uk Docs parishplan.pdf coord 53.6872 1.2155 type city 150 region GB display title Category Villages in North Yorkshire Category Civil parishes in North Yorkshire NorthYorkshire geo stub nl Cridling Stubbs pl Cridling Stubbs sv Cridling Stubbs ... more details
Refimprove date January 2010 Womersley railway station was a railway station in North Yorkshire , England . It was situated on the Askern Branch Line . It was closed to passenger traffic back in September 1948 ref Body, p154 ref and has since been demolished, but the railway line through the site is still open and in regular use. The site today The station house still exists, next to the level crossing . Trains mainly operate to the local power station s of Ferrybridge power station Ferrybridge , Eggborough Power Station Eggborough and Drax Power Station Drax the biggest power station in Europe . There are many trains, nearly always hauled by British Rail Class 66 Class 66 locomotives of DB Schenker Rail UK EWS , Freightliner Group Limited Freightliner and GB Railfreight . For many years the only time the line saw passenger trains was when there were engineering diversions on the East Coast Main Line , but since May 2010 there has been a regular train service that runs on this line from Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross , run by open access operator Grand Central Railway Grand Central . Notes Reflist References Body, G. 1988 , PSL Field Guides Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2 , Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1 85260 072 1 Disused Rail Start rail line previous Norton South Yorkshire railway station Norton next Knottingley railway station Knottingley next2 Beeston Leeds railway station Beeston route London Midland and Scottish Railway p style background e5e4e6 small Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway br Askern Branch Line br small col FFFF00 s end coord 53.6645 1.1885 type railwaystation region GB display title Category Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire Category Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Yorkshire Humber railstation stub ... more details
village was put at risk because of a proposal to turn it, along with neighbouring Beal and Eggborough ... The old vicarage of Kellington Sitting in the shadow of nearby Eggborough Power Station , Kellington ... more details
Infobox UK place country England latitude 53.64501 longitude 1.16775 official name Walden Stubbs static image static image caption population civil parish Walden Stubbs shire district Selby district Selby shire county North Yorkshire region Yorkshire and the Humber constituency westminster post town DONCASTER postcode district DN6 postcode area DN dial code os grid reference SE551168 Walden Stubbs is a little village and civil parish in the Selby district Selby district of North Yorkshire , England . Situated close to the border with South Yorkshire , and north of Doncaster . It lies close to the River Went , which starts at Featherstone . The Askern Branch Line runs through this village, which has two level crossings. This rail line now carries freight to and from the three power stations of Ferrybridge, Eggborough and Drax and passenger trains from London Kings Cross to Bradford Interchange. There is also the occasional diverted passenger train from the East Coast Main Line. External links Commons category inline Walden Stubbs Category Villages in North Yorkshire Category Civil parishes in North Yorkshire selby geo stub nl Walden Stubbs pl Walden Stubbs sv Walden Stubbs ... more details
postscript None ref British Energy bought the 2,000 MWe Eggborough Power Station Eggborough coal fired ... power station s such as British Energy had. The purchase of Eggborough occurred at the peak of the market ... of secured creditors known as the Eggborough banks who had provided financing for the purchase of the Eggborough ... 1845 ref On 1 April 2010, EDF transferred the coal fired Eggborough Power Station to the plant s bondholders ... 2010 04 01 edf transfers eggborough plant to bondholders after buying british energy.html title EDF Transfers Eggborough Plant to Bondholders After Buying British Energy author Catherine Airlie date ... nuclear power station Dungeness B AGR 1110 1965 1983 1985 2018 Eggborough Power Station Eggborough ... more details
coord 53.744 1.310 display title region GB scale 100000 Infobox historic subdivision Name Osgoldcross HQ Pontefract Status Rural district Start 1938 End 1974 Replace Selby district Selby District br City of Wakefield Image Osgoldcross Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire , England . It was created in 1938, from 19 remaining parish es of the disbanded Pontefract Rural District after three quarters but only a small fraction of the area of its population had been transferred to surrounding authorities specifically to Castleford which took 14,145 of the 23,981 in the district in 1931 , Knottingley , and Pontefract . It was named after the Wapentake of Osgoldcross wapentake Osgoldcross and administered from Pontefract . Since April 1, 1974 it has formed part of the District of Selby district Selby and the City of Wakefield . At the time of its dissolution it consisted of the following 19 civil parishes in England civil parish es. columns list 3 Balne Beal, Yorkshire Beal Birkin Brotherton Burton Salmon Bryam cum Sutton Cridling Stubbs Darrington, Yorkshire Darrington East Hardwick Eggborough Fairburn, North Yorkshire Fairburn Heck, North Yorkshire Heck Hensall, North Yorkshire Hensall Hillam Kellington Monk Fryston Stapleton, Selby Stapleton Whitley, Yorkshire Whitley Wormersley All but Darrington and East Hardwick went to Selby district. References http www.visionofbritain.org.uk relationships.jsp?u id 10074319&c id 10001043 Category History of local government in Yorkshire Category Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Category Local government in Wakefield ... more details
Image Penmanshiel Tunnel coal train on new alignment ..jpg thumb 250px right A merry go round train hauled by a British Rail Class 66 Class 66 locomotive A merry go round train , often abbreviated to MGR , is a Unit train block train of Hopper car hopper wagons which both loads and unloads its cargo while moving. In the United Kingdom , they are most commonly coal trains delivering to power stations . These trains were introduced in the 1960s, and were one of the few innovations of the Beeching axe , along with investment from the CEGB Central Electricity Generating Board and the N.C.B. National Coal Board into new power stations and loading facilities. West Burton Power Station was used as a testing ground for the MGR system ref Railway Magazine 1965 Jul p 388 ref but the first power station to receive its coal by MGR was Cockenzie Power Station Cockenzie in Scotland in 1966. ref Railway Magazine 1965 Mar p172 ref It was estimated at the time that the 80 MGR hoppers needed to feed Cockenzie would replace up to 1500 conventional wagons. ref Railway Magazine 1965 Apr p197 ref A 1.2 GW power station, such as Cockenzie, receives up to 3 million tons of coal a year, whereas a larger 2 GW plant, like West Burton, up to 5 million tons per year. Power stations that were built to handle the new MGR traffic were Aberthaw Power Station Aberthaw , Drax power station Drax , Didcot Power Station Didcot , Eggborough Power Station Eggborough , Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Fiddlers Ferry and Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station Ratcliffe , all of which are still open for traffic at the present time. Many of the older power stations were gradually converted to MGR operation. Balloon loop Associated with merry go round trains are the construction of balloon loop s at the origin and destination so that the train doesn t waste time shunting the engine from one end of the train to the other. However, whilst power stations such as Ratcliffe, West Burton and Cottam had balloon loop s, few if a ... more details
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Ettingshall is an area of Wolverhampton , West Midlands county West Midlands , England , and is a Ward politics ward of Wolverhampton City Council. History Ettingshall was mentioned as an ancient manor in the Domesday Book of 1086. The surrounding areas of Priestfield, Wolverhampton Priestfield , Parkfield, Lanesfield and Millfields are believed to have been property of the manor. ref name raven cite book author Michael Raven title Guide to Staffordshire and the Black Country, The Potteries and the Peak year 2004 publisher Michael Raven pages 148 9 isbn 0906114330 ref From the 18th century onwards, Ettingshall became heavily industrialised as a result of the Industrial Revolution . Until April 1979, an area of wasteland on the southside of Millfields Road was the location of the Bilston Steelworks and old Bilston quarries. Ettingshall Road was the location for Cables and Instruments, Dixon s Wallcoverings and Tools and Machines. Spring Road is the location of Tarmac Limited and John Thompson company John Thompson Limited . Ettingshall was the location for the manufacture of the 240 ton boiler drum with a length of 122 feet in 1965. This was the heaviest load carried by British Rail . It was transported to Eggborough in Yorkshire . ref name raven Geography It is situated 1.25 miles to the south east of the city centre and centred around the A4039 road Great Britain A4039 and A4126 road A4126 roads. ref name raven It is situated on the western edge of the former Borough of Bilston and began as an expansion of the Sedgley village of Ettingshall in the Victorian era, becoming part of the new Coseley urban district council in 1897. As the northern parts of the original Ettingshall extended across the border into Bilston, many new houses and factories were built and this area became known as Ettingshall New Village , the Ettingshall that still exists in the present day. In 1966, the bulk of the old Ettingshall village was absorbed into the borough of Wolverhampton, along ... more details
use dmy dates date February 2012 Infobox UK disused station name Norton South Yorkshire locale Norton, Doncaster Norton borough Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Doncaster image name Norton, The level crossing and Old Station House. geograph.org.uk 234861.jpg caption Norton, The level crossing and Old Station House line manager owner platforms latitude 53.63205 longitude 1.16237 gridref SE554153 Norton South Yorkshire railway station was a railway station to serve Norton, Doncaster Norton , South Yorkshire , England . It was built by the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway line between Doncaster railway station Doncaster and Knottingley railway station Knottingley . The line and its stations were absorbed into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847 when that company changed its name from the Manchester and Leeds Railway. The station buildings were similar to those at Womersley railway station Womersley and were described as Swiss Cottage style. They are a stone built construction with a clipped gable end. At the grouping it passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway LMS and British Railways on nationalisation . The station closed to passengers in September 1948. ref Body, G. 1988 , PSL Field Guides Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2 , Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1 85260 072 1 p. 154 ref But the railway line is still open and now carries freight trains mainly bulk coal to and from the power stations at Drax, Ferrybridge & Eggborough, along with Grand Central s passenger services between Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross since 2010. As part of a report to Doncaster Borough Council in September 2008 the station site was to be protected for future use in a strategy for the railways in the borough, reopening being a distant possibility. ref Report of Doncaster Borough Council on strategic rail routes for the future. ref Disused Rail Start rail line previous Askern railway station Askern next Womersley railway station W ... more details
the M62 motorway M62 at junction 34. Image Eggborough Power Station at Sunset geograph.org.uk 1237134.jpg thumb 140px left Eggborough From the M62, the village of Eggborough has been bypassed in recent ... Ferrybridge , Eggborough Power Station Eggborough , and Drax, North Yorkshire Drax , with its enormous ... more details
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Refimprove auto yes date December 2009 election results missing Coord 53.777 1.079 display title region GB scale 100000 Infobox UK constituency main name Selby parliament uk map1 Selby map2 EnglandNorthYorkshire map entity North Yorkshire map year 2005 year 1983 abolished 2010 type County previous Barkston Ash UK Parliament constituency Barkston Ash next Selby and Ainsty UK Parliament constituency Selby and Ainsty , York Outer UK Parliament constituency York Outer region England county North Yorkshire elects howmany One towns Selby , Tadcaster , Sherburn in Elmet Selby was a United Kingdom constituencies parliamentary constituency in North Yorkshire , represented in the British House of Commons House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elected one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. The constituency existed from United Kingdom general election, 1983 1983 to United Kingdom general election, 2010 2010 . History This safe Conservative Party UK Conservative seat from 1983 to United Kingdom general election, 1997 1997 became a Labour Party UK Labour marginal for the remainder of its existence. Boundaries The constituency covered the district of Selby and the south eastern suburbs of the city of York namely the parishes of Fulford , Heslington and Osbaldwick and Heworth Without ref The ward of Osbaldwick and Heworth Without was moved to the Selby constituency in 1997 ref . It included the University of York and the Drax, North Yorkshire Drax and Eggborough power stations. Boundary review Following their review of parliamentary representation in York and North Yorkshire in the 2000s, the Boundary Commission for England created a new seat of Selby and Ainsty UK Parliament constituency Selby and Ainsty . The new seat consists of much of the former Selby constituency, minus the south western suburbs of York which are included in the also newly created seat of York Outer UK Parliament constituency York Outer . Members of P ... more details
46.83 N 0 48 38.83 W type landmark name West Burton Power Station Chimney Eggborough Power Station convert 200 m ft 0 1966 chimney Eggborough , North Yorkshire concrete tower Coord 53 42 42.4 N 1 7 30.85 W type landmark name Eggborough Power Station Chimney Structures 150 to 200 metres tall class wikitable ... tower coord 53 18 17.2 N 0 46 53.96 W type landmark name Cottam Power Station Chimney Eggborough ... 42 42.41 N 1 7 30.87 W type landmark name Eggborough Power Station Chimney Kilroot power station convert ... more details
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