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Doncaster

Location type

Major station

Name and dates

Doncaster

Station code: DON National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway).

Nearby stations Doncaster [1st] Cherry Tree Lane Bentley Hexthorpe Arksey Sprotborrough [2nd] Edlington Sprotsborough [1st] Adwick Sandall Kirk Sandall Carcroft and Adwick-le-Street Pickburn and Brodsworth Rossington Conisborough [1st]	Doncaster Works South Yorkshire Junction Marshgate Goods Bridge Junction Doncaster York Road Goods Doncaster Railport Belmont Yard Doncaster South Junction Wheatley Park Goods Sprotborough Junction Doncaster North Junction Bentley Junction Factory Decoy Up Yard Potteric Carr Junction
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1849	Great Northern Railway Peterborough to Doncaster via Lincoln and Boston opened.
/ /1850	Great Northern Railway Doncaster to York via Askern (immediately north-west of Doncaster on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) opened. GNR uses L&Y line from 4 miles north of Doncaster to Knottingley.
16/03/1951	Great Northern Railway 14 are killed when a York to London King's Cross express derails at Doncaster on badly a maintained crossover.

News items

28/09/2023	Network Rail and Freightliner open a brand-new operational training academy in Doncaster [Network Rail]
25/07/2023	DB Cargo UK grounds electric fleet following rocketing electricity prices [RailTech]
02/05/2023	Growing Rail Freight [Rail Engineer]
06/01/2023	Crewe's record-breaking 91 saved for Boness museum [Rail]
30/11/2022	Plans to re-open Don Valley Line and Askern Line in Yorkshire and restore passenger trains [Yorkshire Post]
30/07/2022	Hitachi rail workers to strike [RMT]
09/03/2022	RMT condemns fire and re-hire proposals at Wabtec Doncaster [RMT]
22/06/2021	Doncaster terminal offers customs clearance for Channel Tunnel rail freight [Railway Gazette]
05/04/2021	Remembering Sir Nigel Gresley, One Of Britains Finest Engineers [Northern Life]
25/02/2021	New steam loco builds up steam [Railstaff]