1999

SE3153 : Hornbeam Railway Station, Harrogate, 1999

taken 25 years ago, near to Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England

Hornbeam Railway Station, Harrogate, 1999
Hornbeam Railway Station, Harrogate, 1999
The original railway line from York and Wetherby swung to the left (about where the pine tree is located at centre-right of photograph) and entered a tunnel, the 'Harrogate Tunnel', then into a cutting to arrive at Brunswick Station, the terminus for Harrogate. That station was located about where Trinity Church now stands on the edge of The Stray and it opened in 1848.

Later and after much opposition to all the smoke and noise a train would generate, the railway company obtained permission for a line to cross The Stray in a cutting to a new station in what was becoming the centre of Harrogate. Thus, the route seen in the photograph was created and the new station replaced Brunswick Station in 1862. Harrogate Tunnel was boarded up but still remains beneath Langcliffe Avenue; it was a potential Air Raid Shelter in the Second World War.

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Category: Railway station
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Railway Line [14] · Avenue [12] Other Photos: · Leeds Road, Harrogate, 1999 ·
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SE3153, 109 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Anthony Eden   (more nearby)
Date Taken
1999   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 15 July, 2007
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 310 539 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:58.8572N 1:31.7275W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SE 310 539
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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Image classification(about): Geograph (Third Visitor for SE3153) · First in 5 Years (TPoint) (about)
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