ANOTHER BOX

Many thanks for all your support for my recent Blips. Very much appreciated.
Today, another cycle ride with T and we came across Burton Agnes Station.
It was a minor railway station serving the village on the line from Scarborough to Hull for the York and North Midland Railway. For this station the main event in History belongs to 17th September 1947.
On this day at 5.55AM the down passenger train from Hull to Bridlington, travelling under clear signals, was approaching the station level crossing at about 55MPH. An Army lorry carrying 26 German prisoners of war broke through the gates and came to a standstill on the line. The lorry was demolished by the train and 2 British Soldiers and 10 Prisoners of War travelling in it were killed.

There is now a memorial plaque, just visible, on the signal box to commemorate this awful incident. My extra shows the original station had 2 signalboxes !
Clearly this is a dangerous area as there was another local rail crash near here in 1986 . . . this probably explains why many of the smaller crossings have now been closed to vehicles . . . but not bicycles !