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'Doncaster Works Open day 2003'
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Doncaster Works Open Day in 2003
Electric locomotives
These locomotives on this page were at large open day that was held on the 26 and 27th of June 2003 at the Doncaster Plant to mark the 150th anniversary of these works.
EWS Class 92001 at the Doncaster Works Open day in 2003
Class 84001 at the Open day at Doncaster.
Class 85101 at the Doncaster works open day in 2003
E3035 at the Doncaster works open day in 2003
E5001 at the Doncaster works open day in 2003.
The Plant
Doncaster's Great Northern Railway railway works was called The Plant. It was established by the Great Northern Railway in 1853. This railway works is (or what is left of it now ) next to the station on the west or down side of the station. LNER A3s and A4s were just two of the many classes of steam engines that came out of these works.
Doncaster Railway station
Doncaster railway station is in South Yorkshire and it is 156 miles from London Kings Cross. Doncaster station is now (2019) managed by LNER. Doncaster station is on of the East Coast Main Line (ECML). Doncaster is one of the main railway stations on the ECML.
Doncaster station has eight platforms on two islands platforms. Platforms one three and four and eight are through platforms. Platforms six and seven are bays at the north of the station on the down side. Platform two and five are south-facing bays on the up side. It now has another (new) platform with the number 0 on the up side at the norther end.
There is a good mixture of train operators who now run thier services to from and though Doncaster station. LNER now( 2019) runs the main ECML trains replacing Virgin East Coast East Coast and NXEC and GNER be for them . First Hull Trains also run there trains though Hull to London. Cross Country and Northern Rail trains together with First TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains also use this station