Hull & Barnsley Railway - Cannon Street Station
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I am in the process of tracing the old route of the Hull & Barnsley Railway throughout East Yorkshire. After a bit of planning I started last weekend after driving through Little Weighton in East Yorkshire following a visit to the Raikes Mausoleum. Armed with a camera and Debbie, Paul and Kirsty (kicking and screaming!) I used the remaining space in the camera's memory card to snap the old Little Weighton railway station and I'll be returning during the summer months for a few more snaps.
I am doing this for a number of reasons, the first being personal interest in local history. More importantly though, many of the original sites of the Hull & Barnsley Railway are undergoing redevelopment such as the Cannon Street station site in Hull. Before too much longer there will be very few reminders of this once great railway left.
My intention is to photograph every last piece of the Hull & Barnsley Railway I can legally access before it is lost forever to redevelopment. I plan on photographing remaining infrastructure, line, embankments, bridges, tunnels, stations and anything else which is associated with the Hull & Barnsley Railway.
This coming Sunday Paul has agreed to accompany Debbie and myself to the Drewton Tunnel located west of Little Weighton where I will take a few photos of the tunnel entrance and air shafts. If there's time I hope we can then move on to South Cave to photograph the old railway station there and the existing sections of line.
The photographs shown on this page were taken on Cannon Street in Hull and show the perimeter wall and gates to the original Cannon Street station which was closed to passenger traffic in 1924. These gates are still in place after 80 years but considering that the new Hull College Motor Vehicle teaching facility is being built on this land, there's a risk these gates might end up on a scrap heap somewhere and therefore lost forever.
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I am doing this for a number of reasons, the first being personal interest in local history. More importantly though, many of the original sites of the Hull & Barnsley Railway are undergoing redevelopment such as the Cannon Street station site in Hull. Before too much longer there will be very few reminders of this once great railway left.
My intention is to photograph every last piece of the Hull & Barnsley Railway I can legally access before it is lost forever to redevelopment. I plan on photographing remaining infrastructure, line, embankments, bridges, tunnels, stations and anything else which is associated with the Hull & Barnsley Railway.
This coming Sunday Paul has agreed to accompany Debbie and myself to the Drewton Tunnel located west of Little Weighton where I will take a few photos of the tunnel entrance and air shafts. If there's time I hope we can then move on to South Cave to photograph the old railway station there and the existing sections of line.
The photographs shown on this page were taken on Cannon Street in Hull and show the perimeter wall and gates to the original Cannon Street station which was closed to passenger traffic in 1924. These gates are still in place after 80 years but considering that the new Hull College Motor Vehicle teaching facility is being built on this land, there's a risk these gates might end up on a scrap heap somewhere and therefore lost forever.
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posted by Jon Fry at 9:02:00 AM
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I remember this railway when it was still operating. In late 1940s much coal was brought in and there were depots at the end of Gibson Street where it joined Lorne Street.
It is sad to see the site of the former Caroline Street station.
It is a scandal that the high level station on Fitzroy street was allowed to fall into decay so that the council had an excuse to demolish it and build flats on the site. Glad to see a younger person taking an interest in this once great railway. I think it was the last railway built in this country and the route did not strangle the road traffic due to it's high level route.
I have lots of memories of this railway
when I was a young boy I lived in Pollington from 1946 to 1951, and can remember walking along the canal and coming across a bridge crossing the canal. The bridge had a cabin built on top which may have been where the controls to lift the bridge where housed. My friends and I hoped one day to see the bridge raised, we never saw our wish come true. Coming out of Pollington towards Snaith the road went over a level crossing i never saw the gates close to traffic nor a train go by. Older people said only ghost trains went along the rails This was the Hull and Barnsley railway
My interest comes fro researching my wifes family. Her Great-Grandfather, Samuel Sharpe born at Branston nr Lincoln, worked on the Hull Barnsley railway in the 1880's as a platelayer living at Wosborough, Upton and finally Cudworth where he settled and became a miner. It was here that his Grand-Daughter, my Mother-in-Law was born.
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