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    Drax Abbey railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and served the village of Drax in North Yorkshire, England. The station opened...
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    Drax Hales railway station was one of two railway stations that served the village of Drax in North Yorkshire, England. It opened to passengers and goods...
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    Drax Hales railway station was on the North Eastern Railway's (NER) Selby to Goole Line: British Railways closed it in 1964. Drax Abbey was on the Hull...
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    Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany FRSL FRGS (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish...
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    Drax renamed as Drax Abbey, and Carlton became Carlton Towers. The chord allowed through running between the H&BR outside Hull and Paragon station The...
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    Selby–Goole line (category North Eastern Railway (UK))
    Stephen Chapman The village of Drax now having two stations until 1923 with Drax Abbey railway station "The rise of the railways". Goole on the Web. Retrieved...
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    coal fired power station. It was replaced by larger power stations away from town at Ferrybridge, Eggborough and Drax. The power station was demolished...
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    Barmby railway station was a station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway, and served the village of Barmby on the Marsh in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
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  • coal fired power station. It was replaced by larger power stations away from town at Ferrybridge, Eggborough and Drax. The power station was demolished...
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  • West Yorkshire Union Railway - promoted 1883 as a main line from Leeds to Hull via the Hull and Barnsley Railway from Drax Abbey. Only managed to open...
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    Moors Railway, between Pickering and Grosmont, which opened in 1973; the Derwent Valley Light Railway near York; and the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam...
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  • railway stations in Britain History of rail transport in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial...
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    Hull Docks and Drax Power Station to the British Gypsum plasterboard factory at Kirkby Thore, and coal was carried to power stations in Yorkshire and...
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    Death and state funeral of George V (category Westminster Abbey)
    Howard of Penrith Viscount Lewisham Lord Claud Hamilton The Hon. Sir Reginald Drax The Hon. Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy The Hon. Sir Stanley Colville The Hon...
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    Pontefract line (category Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
    East Coast Main Line Hensall: junction for the Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR – now to Drax); and the joint GCR/HBR line crossed the line about a mile further...
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    biomass facility, with a 164 foot (50 m) silo was constructed to supply Drax power station. The facility was officially opened by Councillor Mary Glew, Lord...
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    Carlton Towers railway station served the village of Carlton, Selby, England from 1885 to 1959 on the Hull and Barnsley Railway. The station opened as Carlton...
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    stations in the lower section take their water from the River Aire. Industry that lies alongside the Aire includes Ferrybridge, Eggborough and Drax power...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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  • list of closed railway stations in Britain includes the following: Year of closure is given if known. Stations reopened as heritage railways continue to...
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    There are three thermal power stations alongside the River Aire east of Castleford; Ferrybridge C, Eggborough and Drax. Drax takes its cooling water from...
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    East Coast Main Line (category Railway lines in the United Kingdom)
    (632 km) electrified railway between its northern terminus at Edinburgh Waverley and southern terminus at London King's Cross station. The key towns and...
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  • Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire and attempted to shut it down. There were thirty-eight arrests, with four breaching the fence and the railway line...
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    "Selby Station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 11 December 2015. "Great North of England Railway". Graces Guide. Retrieved 8 December 2015. "Railway Line...
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    Dearne Valley line (category Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
    (particularly with bulk loads of imported coal for the power stations at Ferrybridge, Eggbrough and Drax and also further afield in the East Midlands) and also...
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    region is the chimney of Grain Power Station at 801 ft; it is the second-tallest chimney in the UK after Drax power station. George Albert Smith developed the...
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    Wakefield line (category Railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
    was owned by different railway companies: Leeds Central–Wakefield Great Northern Railway (GNR) – with Wakefield Westgate station being jointly owned by...
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  • Hugo Drax, the antagonist of Moonraker, was named after Fleming's acquaintance Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax; Drax's assistant...
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  • Holdings in 2019, Drax Group plc — is a power generation company that operates some power stations including the Drax Power Station. It also runs a biomass...
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    "town" having first developed gradually after the building of the railway station in 1838. Wimbledon has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age when...
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