Horbury, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England was the site of two wagon works constructed during the Victorian period of industrialisation. Charles...
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2001, the entire fleet was refurbished by Bombardier Prorail at Horbury railway works. The interior was completely remodelled, with changes including...
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engineering and building wagons for the railways. Horbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District. The name Horbury is attested in 1086 as (H)orberie. It...
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Scottish Railway. It replaced Horbury Junction. It was situated opposite St Mary's Church and was closer to Horbury railway works than Horbury Junction...
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Manitoba Greater Sudbury, Ontario Nanticoke, Ontario Montreal, Quebec Horbury railway works - Procor's British unit from 1974 to 1990 "Products Tank Line of...
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fitted with Dellner couplers, like the Class 222 operated by East Midlands Railway and the Class 390 Pendolino electric trains used by Avanti West Coast,...
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Horbury and Ossett railway station formerly served the town of Horbury in West Yorkshire, England. It was located on the Manchester and Leeds Railway...
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GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1937)
Woodham Brothers sold the locomotive to David Smith and it moved to Horbury railway works in Wakefield in May 1981. In 1994, it moved to Carnforth MPD for...
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units built in Belgium by Bombardier Transportation, for service on the railway network of the United Kingdom. Construction of the Voyager family took...
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then past Darton to a junction with the Manchester and Leeds Railway east of Horbury. There were also proposed several branches and deviations of the...
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part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated between Dewsbury, Horbury and Wakefield. At the 2021 census, the town had a population of 21,861...
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Royston to Thornhill line (category Closed railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
the viaducts at Bradley, Crigglestone, and Horbury still remain. The line was promoted by the Midland Railway with a view to shortening the distance needed...
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and mineral trains to and from Horbury. On 1 August 1854, the independent Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway (LB&HJR) opened its line between...
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Calder Valley line (category Railway lines in North West England)
Calder Valley line (also previously known as the Caldervale line) is a railway route in Northern England between the cities of Leeds and Manchester as...
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tools, glass and other forms of manufacturing. Horbury is something of an anomaly in having had an iron works. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979...
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List of British Rail TOPS depot codes (category British railway-related lists)
Shunter Duties. Inter City Railway Society. p. 65. Castle, John; Wood, Ron (1981). Shunter Duties. Tiverton: Inter City Railway Society. pp. 4–5. British...
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Ossett and west of Horbury between Wakefield Kirkgate railway station and Mirfield railway station on the former Manchester and Leeds Railway. There is evidence...
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This list is for railway lines across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which are now abandoned, closed, dismantled or disused. Within the United Kingdom...
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Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Initially promoted as the South Yorkshire Coal Railway in 1845...
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List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection (redirect from National Railway Collection)
Western Railway. It initially carried the number 298 but this was later changed to 0298 in a duplicate series and was rebuilt at their Eastleigh Works in 1921...
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British Rail Class 92 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1993)
but with a modified front end, were fabricated by Procor Engineering of Horbury and delivered pre-painted in the then-standard Railfreight triple-grey...
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The Kent & East Sussex Railway has hosted a variety of heritage rolling stock since the line was closed by British Railways in 1961. Wikimedia Commons...
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walking through a tunnel underneath the railway line that runs between Wakefield Kirkgate railway station and Horbury. She was stabbed five times: twice in...
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Healey Mills Marshalling Yard (category Railway depots in Yorkshire)
yards in the Dewsbury/Wakefield area (namely Brighouse, Crofton Laden, Horbury Junction Sidings, Low Moor, Mirfield, Mytholmroyd, New Withams, Turners...
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autumn tidy on Mid-Norfolk Railway Sentinel 4wVBT: George Sentinel Works No 9596 George 0-4-0 VBGT Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Works No 7818 No 2 0-4-0ST D9520...
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will remain at the company's Horbury plant 2013-07-18T10:03:00+01:00. "East Coast Main Line IEP train order confirmed". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved...
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sections, but these sections are connected by artificial "cuts" (e.g. Horbury Cut) to form the Calder and Hebble Navigation, a popular leisure waterway...
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St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale (category John Horbury Hunt buildings)
of the Anglican Bishop of Armidale. The cathedral was designed by John Horbury Hunt and Bishop James Francis Turner and built from 1871 to 1938. It is...
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Citroën DS • Aston Martin DB7 • Westfield XTR2 How car designers Peter Horbury and Ian Callum style cars • Grannies doing donuts with a Honda S2000 Ross...
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British Railway, No. 2 (Station Enlargement and Railways) Act 1877 c. xxi Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Horbury, &c.) Act...
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