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	Doncaster - LoveToKnow 1911
		DONCASTER, a market-town and municipal borough in the Doncaster parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 156 m.
		Doncaster was evidently a borough held of the crown for a fee farm rent before 11 9 4, when Richard I.
		In 1200 a fair at Doncaster on the vigil and day of St James the Apostle was confirmed to Robert de Turnham, who held the manor in right of his wife, with the addition of an extra day, for which he had to give the king two palfreys worth loos.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Doncaster (815 words)

	Doncaster Works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doncaster railway works is in the town of Doncaster in the county of Yorkshire in England.
		At this time the works also began building new coaches, with, in 1873 the first sleeping cars, in 1879 the first dining cars in the United Kingdom and, in 1882 the first corridor coaches.
		Among the locomotives the works produced were the Stirling Singles, the Ivatt Atlantics and the Gresley Pacifics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doncaster_Works (343 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The club was formed in September 1879 by Albert Jenkins, a fitter at Doncaster's Great Northern Railway works in response to the emerging popularity of the game in the nearby city of Sheffield.
		In 1997-98, Doncaster also set the record for losses in a season, suffering the humiliation of enduring a record 34 league defeats as they finished bottom of Division Three and went into the Football Conference.
		Doncaster Rovers were involved in the longest ever football match, against Stockport County at Edgeley Park on March 30 1946.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Doncaster_Rovers_F.C. (891 words)

	Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council \| Railways
		Doncaster became an important railway centre in 1853, when the Great Northern Railway Company opened its Locomotive Works - locally known as the 'Plant Works' - in Doncaster, relocating them from Boston in Lincolnshire.
		This is because when the railways were owned by the State, the records of all the former railway companies were deposited in the National Archives, where they can be consulted.
		Other records of plant works employees can be found at Doncaster Archives amongst the archives of the Great Northern Railway Locomotive Society whose records cover the years 1857 to 1972 and the archives of the Great Northern Railway Sick and funeral fund from 1867 to 1971.
	www.doncaster.gov.uk /Leisure_in_Doncaster/Libraries/Archives_Local_Studies/family_local_history/Railways.asp (398 words)

	Railways in Music Part 1 by P.L. Scowcroft [MusicWeb: Len Mullenger] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Railways, in the modern sense, have been with us for some 170 years and for maybe half that time they were THE major form of long-haul transportation by land.
		Doncaster's GNR "Plant" works opened in 1853, it is generally understood, though my researches suggest that parts of it were operational by the last two months of 1852.
		Mexborough, near Doncaster, had a railway works (Manchester-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later Great Central) also called the Plant and this, too, had a band, or bands, there was one in the 1860s, re-founded in the 1880s and still extant in the nineties.
	www.musicweb-international.com /railways_in_music.htm (4204 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Also the Doncaster plant built the mallard, which in 1938 held the record for the fastest speed a stream engine has travelled, which was 126mph.
		In the local area Doncaster is also well known for having a lot of pubs which we do indeed as no more are aloud to be built in the town.
		Generally Doncaster is a good night to go out in as it caters for different types of music on different night.
	users.aber.ac.uk /cfc3/home/home1.htm (421 words)

	History of the Society
		The first stage of the venture at Thorne was completed by late July 1999, with a 600 ft loop of dual 5 and 71/4 inch gauge ground level track with a 100 ft long branch line to the preparation area and locomotive shed.
		The railway at Sandtoft was by 2000 a major attraction, but due to circumstances I and about thirteen other SMR members voted to transfer our activities to Thorne.
		In August 2005 the Doncaster and District Model Engineering Society was selected from list of community groups by Bramall Construction and a local residents panel for what was termed a "Wish List" that Bramall Construction could help to fund.
	www.thornerailway.org.uk /page8.html (1110 words)

	Books
		Christiansen, Rex and Miller, R.W. The Cambrian Railways.
		The work filled a very large gap in locomotive literature, but could be improved by the provision of sectional bibliographies, a general index and a more thorough approach to the history of the subject, (although biography is not neglected).
		The ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands.
	www.steamindex.com /books.htm (8016 words)

	Doncaster's Railway Legends [132 page book]
		It was also a railway centre with a character all of its own; The Carr, the Crimpsall shops and Decoy yard; these were names with a fascination all of their own, familiar to many generations of enthusiasts.
		It was the combination of the skill and expertise built up over many years at Doncaster, plus the hard work and determination of the men working the engines, inspired by the leadership of railway management, which produced the team effort required to make that world speed record in 1938, a record which still stands.
		Doncaster works only really had three significant chiefs during its heyday of steam locomotive construction, Stirling, Ivatt and particularly the third, Herbert Nigel (later Sir Nigel) Gresley.
	www.mortonsbooks.co.uk /doncaster.htm (869 words)

	doncaster works 82
		Eight Deltics awaiting scrapping at the rear of Doncaster Works on the 31st July 1982.
		No.16 had been secured by the Deltic 9000 Fund as a source of spares for D9000 but was to become a fully working locomotive again only a few years later.
		D9000 "ROYAL SCOTS GREY" had departed Doncaster Works in 1983 for the Nene Valley Railway and a life in preservation.
	www.napierchronicles.co.uk /doncaster%20works%2082.htm (219 words)

	AllRefer.com - Doncaster Information
		For its loyalty to the crown in the English Civil War, Charles II granted the town the privilege of being a free borough.
		It developed rapidly after the opening of the railway in 1849 and the Great Northern Railway works in 1853, becoming established as a railway engineering town.
		Although Doncaster has street names such as French Gate, Baxter Gate, and St Sepulchre Gate, suggesting that the town was fortified in the Middle Ages, the 16th-century antiquary John Leland recorded that it was never a walled town, gate in this context simply meaning ‘street’.
	www.allrefer.com /doncaster (599 words)

	LINCOLNSHIRE - Online Information article about LINCOLNSHIRE
		The Upper Lias enters the county at Stainby, passing by Grantham and Lincoln where it is worked for bricks.
		Ironstone is worked at several places and there are some blast furnaces.
		Canals connect Louth with the Humber, Sleaford with the Witham, and Grantham with the Trent near Nottingham; but the greater rivers and many of the drainage cuts are navigable, being artificially deepened and embanked.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LEO_LOB/LINCOLNSHIRE.html (5089 words)

	Doncaster
		There is evidence that horse races were held in Doncaster as far back as the early 17th century, but it is the St. Leger Stakes, first held in the 1770s, which makes the town's races famous.
		Doncaster was already a communications centre at this time.
		In the early part of the 20th Century Doncaster became one of the largest coal mining areas in the country, with the industry employing more people in the area than anything else.
	www.lovemytown.co.uk /CityProfiles/Doncaster.htm (708 words)

	Railways in Music Part 2 by P.L. Scowcroft [MusicWeb: Len Mullenger] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Northumbria saw the birth of railways in Britain, but Butterworth's "railway" movement is not a portrayal of Puffing Billy or Locomotive No. 1, as one might expect, but is instead a proud evocation of the Royal Border bridge at Berwick which carries the East Coast Main Line on its northward course towards the Scottish border.
		Doncaster's Railway Plant Works duly earned a mention in Jackson's Festival 800 Music for women's choir and brass band which celebrated the 800th anniversary of Doncaster's first municipal charter in 1194.
		The National Railway Museum has from time to time staged concerts of railway music; one, in the 1980s, was recorded on cassette and another, in 1996, celebrated the inauguration of the Institute of Railway Studies in York.
	www.musicweb-international.com /railways_in_music2.htm (5328 words)

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		With the work nearing completion, Buckie's sidings became redundant, the ground-frame at the south end was taken out of use on 15 March 1997 and the turnout from the up main line was removed.
		A Railway Works Order was in preparation with a view to construction starting in 1999, but it seems that the planning permission already granted by the county council may have been challenged, causing potential disruption and delay for both the rail and the highway schemes.
		A 150km extension of the railway is proposed south along the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca to Desaguardo close to the Bolivian border.
	www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk /2000.txt (19796 words)

	William Cubitt
		In 1800 William was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker and joiner, later working for a manufacturer of agricultural machinery.
		Cubitt was consultant engineer to the South Eastern Railway from London to Dover and for the Great Northern Railway from London to Doncaster.
		For his work as Chairman of the Building Committee and, in effect, consultant engineer for the building of the Crystal Palace, Cubitt received his knighthood.
	www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk /cubitt.htm (1149 words)

	Doncaster Poor Law Union and Workhouse
		That if any parent or parents able to work come into this house with their children shall be disposed of to any persons care whom the master and mistress think proper and the parents shall be set to work.
		The one at Doncaster, a freehold of the township, was sold in 1841 for £330.
		No records of the Doncaster Board of Guardians survive, but there are notes taken at their board meetings from 1862 to 1890 (although in a barely-decipherable hand) amongst the papers of William Aldam of Frickley, a local magistrate and ex officio member of the board.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~peter/workhouse/Doncaster/Doncaster.shtml (4633 words)

	Clan Stirling Online! Research Library Article
		He became locomotive superintendent at Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1853 at the age of 33, and arranged for his works and departmental headquarters to be moved from cramped premises in Glasgow to a new site at Kilmarnock.
		Fifty-Three engines of this type were built between 1870 and 1895 at the Doncaster works of the Old Great Northern Railway to the design of Patrick Stirling.
		The engines were distinguished mainly by their one big pair of single driving wheels, the diameter of which was 8 ft. 1 in.
	www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/photos/StirlingSingleTrain-Design.html (645 words)

	Corus - much more than rail - News about Corus in the Rail industry
		GrantRail Group, the railway systems engineering company, has strengthened its position as a first line supply partner to Network Rail with the award of a £16 million contract for the design and implementation of the Nuneaton Area Remodelling.
		The first phase of the programme, which commenced in spring 2002, is placing heavy demands on civil engineers and railway infrastructure suppliers who are working to tight schedules to ensure the network opens in 2007.
		Railway experts at Corus are providing a vital service as Arsenal FC builds its new 60,000 seater stadium at Ashburton Grove in London.
	www.corusrail.com /en/news/news_archive (1919 words)

	Arts Council England : Project
		Doncaster was once at the centre of the largest coalfield in Britain, and in its heyday as an industrial town its railway works manufactured both the Flying Scotsman and Mallard, Britain’s best-loved steam locomotives.
		Since the miners’ strike of 1984, and the subsequent decimation of the industries, which supported many of the town’s 300,000 residents, Doncaster has undergone a bold process of reinvention.
		Darts has a programme of activity with people from all social backgrounds, including working with homeless people, and a project with socially excluded young men at the local Beckett Centre, to build confidence and skills.
	www.artscouncil.org.uk /regions/project_detail.php?rid=9&sid=7&id=263 (155 words)

	Danger Ahead! - Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was not a happy line in 1903.
		In this view, a snowplow is seen attacking a snowdrift as work to proceeded to clear the line.
		Railway officials surveying the damage after this train overan signals at Andover and smashed into some stationary livestock trucks.
	danger-ahead.railfan.net /gallery (851 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| The Flying Scotsman
		The locomotive was built in 1923 at the London and North Eastern railway's Doncaster works and first found fame when it was put on display at the British empire exhibition, held at Wembley, north London, in 1924 and 1925.
		On May 1 1928, the Flying Scotsman became the first train to complete a non-stop journey from London to Edinburgh - at the time, it was the longest non-stop train journey ever to have been achieved.
		And the landmarks kept on coming for the locomotive - she was the first steam engine to achieve a speed of 100mph, hitting the mark between Leeds and London on November 30 1934.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,1186289,00.html (351 words)

	Locomotive: 4771 (60800)
		Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for heavy fast freight traffic and built in 1936 at Doncaster works by the London and North Eastern Railway (works number 1837).
		The "V2" class was very popular on the Great Central when they ran on the line in the 1930's and after the war.
		This locomotive is not resident at the Great Central Railway.
	www.gcrailway.co.uk /locos/e4771.htm (306 words)

	BDC History W O as a child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		As a boy, he had no doubt what he intended to do with his life and at the age of 16 left to pursue a premium apprenticeship in Doncaster at the Great Northern Railway Works.
		W O worked under Henry Ivatt, designer of the 4-4-2 Atlantic locomotives, in the fitting shop, foundry and engine erecting shop.
		Working through a ten hour day, six days a week, he worked his way up, taking occasional turns as assistant fireman on the running plates, before finishing his apprenticeship in the Kings Cross running sheds.
	www.bdcl.org /HistoryWOChild.htm (176 words)

	Open Directory - Recreation: Trains and Railroads: Miniature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		RHandDR - The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway - The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RHDR).
		Strand Park Miniature Railway - This public 7.25 inch gauge railway is situated in the attractive surroundings of the Strand Park on the edge of the River Medway in Kent.
		Weston Park Railway - Weston Park Railway is located in the grounds of Weston Park, a 1,000 acre estate situated on the borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire in the UK.The railway is built to a gauge of 7¼in and runs through a wooded section of the Park.
	dmoz.org /Recreation/Trains_and_Railroads/Miniature (6243 words)

	Railways: 11 to 18+ years
		The Rainhill Trials: In October 1829 the directors of the soon to be completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a competition to find the most appropriate locomotive to use on their railway.
		UK Heritage Railways: The primary purpose of this website is to provide a guide to the entire heritage railway scene in the UK, including details of special events and operating days for all operating steam railways.
		However, there is also a comprehensive glossary (over 900 entries) of railway terms, names and abbreviations; pages of diagrams and explanations of the components of steam locomotives and their controls; and a Websites Database with links to over 400 railway related websites (including a category for historical material).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVhistoryrailways.htm (693 words)

	Milestone Railway Books A
		Interesting autobiography, from the Doncaster Works to India, and from Shed Master to work study on the Southern.
		An account of the worst railway accident in the British Isles until 1915.
		Combined edn of "British Steam Railways" and "British Steam Locomotives" Drawings, maps and colour paintings by Clifford and Wendy Meadway.
	www.milestonebooks.co.uk /Railways/ra-a.htm (3648 words)

	Shunterspot - Doncaster area
		Belmont Yard: Lies to the west of the main line south of Doncaster station and is best viewed from passing trains.
		Go to the end of Ten Pound Walk and turn left past the Jarvis training centre with Wood Yard on your left until you reach the TMD depot entrance/car park on the right and an open gate in front of you - proceed no further as you will be trespassing if you do.
		Cross the bridge (the West Yard, Works and Wabtec are off to the right) and look to the left for a view of Hexthorpe Sidings.
	www.shunterspot.com /Doncaster.html (376 words)

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