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'Doncaster Station in 2007'
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Doncaster railway station in 2007
GNER HST at Doncaster in 2007
This GNER HST was waiting for a crew at Doncaster station in 2007. This HST was replacing the normal Leeds trains because of floods that had closed part of the Doncaster Leeds railway line. The HST was ticking over but passengers could not board till the crewe got to Doncaster by car I think. The HST was going up the ECML be for heading for Leeds. The floods were very bad in the Bentley and the Toll Bar areas of Doncaster in 2007.
Class 312903 at Doncaster station in 2007
Class 158845 in Doncaster railway station
Two class 08s at Doncaster
Class 08682 named Loinheart at Doncaster near to the station in 2007.
Wabtec Rail Limted class 08669 at Doncaster near to north end the station.
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
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 station in 2007
