Duchess of Kent starting drilling at Wistow
Sand-Hill Location
Photos from Selby: The Past in Pictures: A Pictorial History: Part 2.
Riccall train-spotter to British Rail ECML Technician
Steve Bolton’s memoir tells of his adventures as a youthful train-spotter in Riccall and beyond. He later fulfilled his youthful…
Starting work on the ECML – Nick Beilby
Nick Beilby worked on the East Coast Main Line from the age of 19. Here he recounts his experience as…
Selby: The Saving Grace for Coal
This fascinating short documentary made during the 1984/85 Miner’s Strike places the development of the Selby coalfield in the context…
The Selby Complex by Dave Douglass
This article provides a general history of the Selby Coalfield. It has a particular emphasis on industrial relations at Selby…
LNER Encyclopedia – Historical Website
This website “The London and North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia” has a wealth of information. We intend to identify a selection…
The need for tactical exploration of the Selby Coalfield
This report describes methods used to attempt to discover any areas of Selby that might be particularly hazardous. It concludes…
Use of a Geosimplan study to assess the need for further exploration of the Selby Coalfield
This report investigates the necessity of further exploration of the Selby Coalfield, concluding that further exploration around each specific shaft…
The Flying Scotsman
This item is taken from the National Railway Museum’s website, www.railwaymuseum.org.uk . More information can be found on http://www.flyingscotsman.org.uk/ and…