Archive items in 1980

Railway to Greenway Rail Heritage Scoping schedule

This excel file was compiled by Sophie Vohra of York University as a scoping exercise identifying documents that might be…

Incidents at BOCM outside Selby

These dramatic accounts were submitted by Cyril Pickup who worked at BOCM at Barlby, just North of Selby friom 1953…

Wikipedia Article on Selby Coalfield

This article describes the history of the coalfield and ‘post closure’

Some issues in the creation of the Solar System Greenway

PulPaul Hepworth is on the right in this historic photo – of course in those days you could build a…

Oral History : John Merdith – Designer of the East Coast Mainline diversion

John Meredith was a railway engineer who started work in 1945 on the Southern Railway. After ten years he went…

Old Railway Track Walk, York Environment Week, Thursday 25 May 1989.

Full Title: Old Railway Track Walk, York Environment Week, Thursday 25 May 1989. Information on the wild life that can…

“Railway path wins conservation award”: news clipping The Star, 22 September 1988, p9

“Rangers’ Round – Up”, Bulletin No 1, August 1988

The Railway Path and Cycle Route leaflet with York to Selby plan Summer 1988

The Railway Path and Cycle Route leaflet with York to Riccall plan Summer 1987

The Railway Path and Cycle Route leaflet with York to Riccall plan Summer 1987

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