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Hi Chaps

I'm looking for information on Thirsk Town Old Station (The one that was used as a goods deport). Can anyone please point me in the direction of any drawings, plans, magazine articles?

Cheers
J.P.

The Disused Stations site has this entry which may be useful.

I'd hesitate to rely on anything written by somebody who thinks that GNER was a nineteenth century railway company. The howling error isn't there just once in that linked article, it is a consistent failing.......

Atlantic 3279 wrote:I'd hesitate to rely on anything written by somebody who thinks that GNER was a nineteenth century railway company.

It's all a matter of abbreviation - GNER used to be an acceptable term for the Great North of England Railway before the more recent franchise came into existence...

Atlantic 3279 wrote:I'd hesitate to rely on anything written by somebody who thinks that GNER was a nineteenth century railway company. The howling error isn't there just once in that linked article, it is a consistent failing.......

No error there, not even a howling one. In 1841 there was indeed a Great North of England Railway (GNER) which by way of amalgamations and combinations with other companies became part of the North Eastern Railway in 1854. The GNER was founded in 1836 with the aim of building a main line from York to Newcastle but eventually only built the York to Darlington Bank Top section (and the branch from that line into Thirsk Town) all of which were completed in 1841.

Here are the 2 sheets of the Line Diagram dated around 1914

I must admit when im referring to the Great North of England Railway in correspondence I insert a lower case of between the E and R to distinguish between the two companies as per GN of ER.

I'm sure that I've seen pictures of bricks (and possibly even an original somewhere) stamped GNER, and I'm reasonably sure that Sea Containers, even in their first flush of optimism, wouldn't have paid for that!

Here are the 2 sheets of the Line Diagram dated around 1914

Absolutly brilliant Bryan, that's that bit sorted, now I need arcitectual drawings of the buildings. Are them drawings kept in the archive at Pickering by any chance?

Cheers
J.P.

I do not know if any drawings of the Branch are kept at Pickering you would need to ask the archivist.
I will see if I can find his email address.
The Line diagrams I posted are part of my collection and are all I have on the branch.

Oooops! In future I must engage brain before opening mouth.......

There is a photograph of Thirsk Town Station, looking east and showing the original shed and the 1848 carriage/goods addition of 1848, in A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture Volume 1: The Pioneers by Bill Fawcett and published by the North Eastern Railway Association.
Although there are no accompanying plans or drawings, a brief description confirms that there was little change to the buildings from 1855 until the closure of the goods station in October 1966.

Tom.