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Danby Wiske railway station

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Danby Wiske station site geograph 3861094 by Ben Brooksbank
Danby Wiske station site geograph 3861094 by Ben Brooksbank

Danby Wiske railway station was a station on the East Coast Main Line. It was located approximately 0.5 miles (0.8 km) east of Danby Wiske, in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire. Opened on 1 December 1884 the station was closed to passengers on 15 September 1958. Near to the station were water troughs to allow fast steam locomotives to take on water whilst still running. Because of the spray when they collected water, the troughs could not be located at big stations (such as Northallerton or Darlington) with Danby Wiske being one of six locations on the East Coast Main Line that had the water troughs. In October 1937, a railway inspector received fatal injuries at the Danby Wiske water troughs; he was on the footplate of an A4 Pacific (4492, "Dominion of New Zealand") heading south when it encountered another locomotive hauled express going north. The northbound train had lowered their scoop to its limit, which when the water filled the tender, was unable to be retracted because of the force holding it there. The overflowing water hit the southbound express causing widespread damage, but critically, it forced out the glass from the locomotive's windows. The glass hit the railway inspector at the base of the neck and left him unconscious. He was taken off the train at Northallerton but later died in hospital.

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DL7 0NW , Danby Wiske with Lazenby
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Hutton Bonville
Hutton Bonville

Hutton Bonville is a hamlet and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Danby Wiske with Lazenby. On its own road and near the A167, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Northallerton. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Hutton Bonville: HUTTON-BONVILLE, a chapelry in Birkby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wiske and the Northeastern railway, 3 miles SSE of Cowton r. station, and 4 NNW of Northallerton. It contains the village of Lovesome-Hill, and its post town is Northallerton. Acres, 1, 080. Rea property, £1, 776. Pop., 129. Houses, 22. Hutton-Bonville Hall is a chief residence. The place is a meet for the Bedale hounds. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £53. Patron, Mrs. M. A. Pierse. The church is good, and has a bellturret. When Nikolaus Pevsner visited the hamlet in the early 1960s, to write the entry for his Yorkshire: The North Riding volume of the Buildings of England, he described the estate church of St Lawrence as "away from anywhere except the decaying Hall". The Hall was demolished in the 1960s, although the gate piers at the start of the drive remain and are a Grade II listed structure. St Lawrence's was declared redundant in 2007. It is now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

Battle of the Standard
Battle of the Standard

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