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[[File:robin-hood-sidings-robin-hood-wakefield-google-earth.jpg|thumb|right|500px|This area once was full of railway tracks. The streets here are named Farrier Way, Goldsmith Drive etc. I wonder why 'Robin Hood Sidings' was not kept?]]
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Robin Hood Sidings in the village of Robin Hood, Wakefield, on the East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, are first recorded, as far as I know, on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1894. The railway was established in 1891 and extended a few years later. It closed in 1966.<ref>[http://www.lner.info/co/EWYUR/history.php The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.]</ref>
Robin Hood Sidings in the village of Robin Hood, Wakefield, on the East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, are first recorded, as far as I know, on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1894. The railway was established in 1891 and extended a few years later. It closed in 1966.<ref>[http://www.lner.info/co/EWYUR/history.php The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.]</ref>


=== Maps ===
== Maps ==
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/102345004#zoom=6&lat=7702&lon=8230&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/102345004#zoom=6&lat=7702&lon=8230&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947707#zoom=6&lat=3701&lon=1656&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947707#zoom=6&lat=3701&lon=1656&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)]
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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947695#zoom=5&lat=3857&lon=1762&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947695#zoom=5&lat=3857&lon=1762&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).]


=== Background ===
== Background ==
* [http://www.lner.info/co/EWYUR/history.php The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.]
* [http://www.lner.info/co/EWYUR/history.php The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.]


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Locality
Coordinate 53.7396, -1.5059
Adm. div. West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity In village of Robin Hood, Wakefield
Type Transport
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Defunct
First Record 1894
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Site of Robin Hood Sidings.
This area once was full of railway tracks. The streets here are named Farrier Way, Goldsmith Drive etc. I wonder why 'Robin Hood Sidings' was not kept?

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Robin Hood Sidings in the village of Robin Hood, Wakefield, on the East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, are first recorded, as far as I know, on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1894. The railway was established in 1891 and extended a few years later. It closed in 1966.[1]

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Background

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Notes

  1. ↑ The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.



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