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'Doncaster Station in 2014'
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East Coast class 91's
East Coast class 91116 at Doncaster station also on the 22nd of July 2014 gets its number taken on a down train from London heading north.
East Coast class 91122 leaving Doncaster station also on the 22nd of July 2014 on a train to London heading south.
East Coast class 91102 City of York coming into Doncaster station at the south end of the station also on the 22nd of July 2014 on a train to heading north.
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.
Page updated 19/8/2019
