ONWARDS TOWARDS YORK

Our next stop is the village of Rufforth, where we can see All Saints Church.

In case you're lost, here's the map of the route. Also found at Rufforrth, attending a rally, this ERF flatbed lorry.

Nether Poppleton and Upper Poppleton are contiguous with each other. At the former is this fine church.

Upper Poppleton also has a church - this a memorial in the interior.

There's also a Methodist church at Upper Poppleton (Creative Commons License).

Close by is the Lord Collingwood pub.

The level crossing at Poppleton station with its signal box.

Here is the station. The York to Harrogate line becomes single here (Creative Commons License).

Beside the railway is a nursery, once supplying plants etc to BR. A narrow gauge railway exists within ("TruckinTim" - Creative Commons License).

A NER Electric Autocar 3170 & trailer at Poppleton Junction, where the Harrogate line joins the ECML.

Across country now to the York-Scarborough line and Haxby station, NER. There's talk of it re-opening soon.

The NER also had a station at Strensall.

Let's venture into Strensall village ("Sinjy & Sadie" -Creative Commons License).

Strensall has two pubs. First up is the Half Moon.

There's also the Ship.

Just to the east is Strensall Common (Allan Harris - Creative Commons License).

An "about turn" brings us into the outskirts of York, where we find one of the city's short-lived trolleybuses on the Heworth route.

On the eastern side of the city of York was Foss Islands, a goods facility built by the NER, at the end of a branch from Burton Lane Junction. Here it is in 1969.

The CEGB had an electric loco here for shunting its private sidings.

This old ground shunting signal controlled access and egress.

This is Foss Islands Goods in 1984. The connection to the Derwent Valley Railway's station at Layerthorpe diverges left. Everything has gone now.

This fine NER slotted post signal protected movements into the yard. It now sits proudly within the entrance of York station.

The opening day of York Layerthorpe DVR station.

Some photos from 1969 now. Here's the station and the company's 6 wheel van.

Looking away from the station throat. 

A litte engine shed housed the motive power.

In later years this ex BR loco, Lord Wenlock, was used for freight services. This is 1977.

Also seen in 1977, on Layerthorpe Road, is this fine Bedford of Gorwood Bros., laying over between duties.

Following the Foss Islands branch, we come to Rowntree's factory, an extensive affair.

Rowntree's workers were provided with train services from Rowntree Halt, seen in 1969, when still in use.

The Foss Islands branch joined the Scarborough line at Burton Lane Junction, photographed in 1969.

I'll finish this post here. Next time we'll look at York's railway infrastructure - don't worry, there'll be some beer too!















 

1066 AND ALL THAT

From Pocklington we head in a northwesterly direction towards Stamford Bridge, finding another bus from Phillips of Shiptonthorpe in a parking spot near Low Catton.

At Stamford Bridge, the vehicles of York Pullman could be found.

Stamford Bridge was the site of a big battle in 1066, between King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force. After sorting that out, Harold then had to get down to East Sussex to fight the Normans. This is a painting of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, created in 1870, by Peter Nicolai Arbo.

The Sand Hutton Light Railway was a narrow gauge system serving the estate of Sir Robert Walker, the Fourth Baronet of Sand Hutton. Here's a train near Bossall circa 1925.

Time for a beer or two now, at the Jolly Farmers at Leavening.

The view from a carriage windown of LNER 706 and 353 The Derwent near Kirkham Abbey on a Scarborough to Leeds train 17-8-1938.

There was a NER station at Kirkham Abbey.

The signal box still remains in use.

An old postcard of Kirkham Abbey itself.

Also on the Scarborough to York line, there was a NER station called Castle Howard, a considerable distance from the ediface of the same name.

Across country (see the map) to Sutton-on-the-Forest, where Reliance, a local bus operator, had its depot.

Not far away is Huby, where we find the New Inn.

To the west was Tollerton station, on rthe East Coast Main Line.

Further west is Great Ouseburn, with its ice house.

Here's the church and village.

Sadly, the village pub, the Crown, is now closed.

So, we move on, to Cattal station, on the Harrogate to York line.

The station is still open today.

Not far away, Green Hammerton and the Church of St Thomas.

The adjoining village is Kirk Hammerton, with its church dedicated to St John the Baptist.

One of Eddie Brown's coaches drops us at the Spotted Ox in Tockwith.

That's very close to Rudgate Brewery.

That's enough beer for this post, but we must now call in at Long Marston, to see All Saints Church.

The flatlands to the north were the site of the Battle of Marston Moor of 1644. This monument commemorates it.

There was a station called Marston Moor, built by the NER, but it was closed in 1960. More info here.

Well, that's it for this post. Next time, a few more villages and the we're in to York. 

PS Sorry about the white background to part of the text, I can't find a way to get rid of it!