York Micro #9 SideTracked Traditional Geocache
Barry'n'Shirley: Sorry but it is time to let it go
York Micro #9 SideTracked
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A 35mm placed near the Railway Station. Co-ords are out by 6-7
metres - read hint
The first York railway station was a temporary building on Queen
Street outside the walls of the city, opened in 1839 by the York
and North Midland Railway, and was the terminus of the original
trunk route for trains to London, via Derby and Birmingham. A
second station, inside the walls, was built by George Townsend
Andrews in 1840 and opened on 4 January 1841. This station closed
in 1877 when the present station opened but remained in use for a
further 88 years as carriage storage space. Andrews also designed
the neo-Tudor arch where the walls were breached and the hotel
across the head of the lines, completed in 1853. This station was
the first to incorporate a hotel in its structure, and the
building, now used as offices, still stands (on Toft Green/Tanner
Row), although the train-shed was largely demolished in
1965.[1]
It was replaced by the present station, designed by the North
Eastern Railway architect Thomas Prosser and William Peachey. On
completion in 1877, it had 13 platforms and was the largest in the
world.
In 1909 new platforms were added, and in 1938 the current
footbridge was built. The building was damaged during the Second
World War and extensively repaired in 1947. In 2006-7, the
approaches to the station were reorganised in order to improve
facilities for bus, taxi and car users as well as pedestrians and
cyclists. The former motive power depot now houses the National
Railway Museum.
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