Cycle Route Project Newsletter
This is the first ever newsletter in regard to the York to Selby Railway Path and Cycle Route Project, dated…
Creation of the Cycle Route Article
The map and information which is seen below is from May 1984 and shows the current cycle route. The information…
Rowntrees Passenger Service
The Rowntrees chocolate factory in York required many workers who needed transport to get to and from work from outlying…
Diversion of the East Coast Mainline at Selby Coalfield
This is a file of the diversion at the East Coast mainline at Selby Coalfield. It is currently held at…
Railway to Greenway Rail Heritage Scoping Schedule
This excel file was compiled by Sophie Vohra of York University as a scoping exercise identifying documents that might be…
Signal Box Closures for East Coast Mainline diversion
Station and signal box closure history This item lists the sequence of station and closures leading up to the diversion…
Incidents at BOCM outside Selby
These dramatic accounts were submitted by Cyril Pickup who worked at BOCM at Barlby, just north of Selby friom 1953…
Escrick Sidings Nature Reserve and Maze Picnic Spot
When Sustrans purchased what is now the Solar System Greenway in the 1980s for £1.00, they sold on the sidings…
Wikipedia Article on Selby Coalfield
This article describes the history of the coalfield and ‘post closure’.
Some issues in the creation of the Solar System Greenway
Paul Hepworth is on the right in this historic photo – of course in those days you could build a…