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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?]] | [[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?]]<div class="no-img"> | ||
<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p | <p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p> | ||
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 == | |||
* [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 == | |||
* [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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Revision as of 04:55, 17 May 2020
Site of Robin Hood Sidings.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.
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]
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1908; rev. 1905)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1908; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1931; rev. 1931-32) [sic]
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1947; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).
Background
Notes