Hensall railway station
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Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall, North Yorkshire
. It is located on the Pontefract Line
and is 22 miles (35.4 km) east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies FirstGBRf, Freightliner and DB Schenker
that use the BR Class 66
locomotive, to transport coal & limestone to Drax and Eggborough Power Station
s and remove the gypsum
created by the flue-gas treatment equipment at each facility.
and two per day go to Leeds. There is no Sunday service. This service is operated by Northern Rail and is booked to be run with a class 150/2 DMU coupled to a 153 DMU.
Hensall, North Yorkshire
Hensall is a village and civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire.For the purposes of local administration Hensall forms part of the district of Selby; before April 1974 it was part of Osgoldcross Rural District and the West Riding of Yorkshire....
. It is located on the Pontefract Line
Pontefract Line
The Pontefract Line is the name given to one of the rail services in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. The service is operated by Northern Rail, and links Wakefield and Leeds with Goole via Pontefract...
and is 22 miles (35.4 km) east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies FirstGBRf, Freightliner and DB Schenker
DB Schenker
DB Schenker is a logistics company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG. The company, created by reorganisation and rebranding of various Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries, comprises a logistics division encompassing air, land and sea freight, and a rail division made up from a variety of...
that use the BR Class 66
British Rail Class 66
The Class 66 is a six axle diesel electric freight locomotive developed in part from the British Rail Class 59, for use on the railways of the UK. Since its introduction the class has been successful and has been sold to British and other European railway companies...
locomotive, to transport coal & limestone to Drax and Eggborough Power Station
Eggborough Power Station
Eggborough Power Station is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass. It is siuated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough...
s and remove the gypsum
Gypsum
Gypsum is a very soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO4·2H2O. It is found in alabaster, a decorative stone used in Ancient Egypt. It is the second softest mineral on the Mohs Hardness Scale...
created by the flue-gas treatment equipment at each facility.
History
The station was built by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, later in its history the station was absorbed into the LMSR (London Midland Scottish Railway) and later of course the station became part of the British Railways Network, today the station is operated by Northern Rail. The station is now home to one of the last set of electrical wheel gates in the world, Castleford Cutsyke junction and Hensall are the final serving gates after the removal of the gates at Brough. Hensall Station was also the site of a small collision in 1949 between a British railways freight engine and a lorry after failure of a crossing keeper to acknowledge the train and brake van approaching, however it was argued that the signal man never gave the crossing the approaching train signal. We will never know who was truly to blame for the incident.Services
Hensall has only a limited service - Monday to Saturdays, one train a day goes to GooleGoole railway station
Goole railway station serves the town of Goole in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.The service is operated and the station is managed by Northern Rail...
and two per day go to Leeds. There is no Sunday service. This service is operated by Northern Rail and is booked to be run with a class 150/2 DMU coupled to a 153 DMU.