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Haxey and Junction
The northern section opened in November 1903, and the line from Crowle to Haxey Junction opened for passengers on 2 January 1905.
By the end of 1902, the section from Crowle to Reedness Junction was finished, as was the line from Epworth to Haxey Junction.
In 1905, three trains per day ran from Goole to Haxey Junction and back, with a separate train operating on the Fockerby Branch.
The chairman of the Isle of Axholme Rural District Council was particularly exasperated by the fact that the trains arrived at Haxey Junction shortly after the trains on the other line had departed.
The section from Haxey Junction to Epworth was closed on 1 February 1956, by which time most of the traffic was peat, supplemented by seasonal sugar-beet.
Returning to Reedness Junction, the line started as the Axholme Light Railway ran from there to Haxey.
The line continued on an embankment, crossed Ferry Drain and Warping Drain by a brick bridge, and turned to the south-east to reach the terminus at Haxey Junction Station.
Marshland Junction to Haxey was a distance of ,, although working timetables normally showed the distance from Goole, which was from Haxey.
Before passenger services were withdrawn in 1933, it ran, working two return trips from Goole to Haxey Junction on weekdays, three on Wednesdays, and five on Saturdays.

Haxey and .
Vestiges of an open field system also persist in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, around the villages of Haxey, Epworth and Belton, where long strips, of an average size of half an acre, curve to follow the gently sloping ground and are used for growing vegetables or cereal crops.
The ancient village game of Haxey Hood is played in this open landscape.
The official story is that in the 14th century, Lady de Mowbray, wife of an Isle landowner, John De Mowbray, was out riding towards Westwoodside on the hill that separates it from Haxey.
At twelve noon work in the parish comes to a standstill and people start to make their way to Haxey village to gather and take part in the traditional ritual.
The Towns being the villages of Westwoodside & Haxey, and Houses being the public houses ( pubs ) of those villages.
Haxey is a large parish on the southern border of the Isle of Axholme.
It consists of the villages of Haxey and Westwoodside with the hamlets of High Burnham, Low Burnham, Eastlound and Graiselound.
The idea is to get the Sway Hood into one of the four pubs in either Haxey or Westwoodside.
The Isle of Axholme was originally the eight parishes of Althorpe, Belton, Crowle, Epworth, Haxey, Luddington, Owston and Wroot.
Liens was compelled to carry out the work by the Court of Sewers, to prevent the flooding of Misterton and Haxey Commons.
Hunters Hill, which is just above Haxey Gate bridge, and Idle Stop pumping stations are situated on the banks of the Idle, while Austerfield pumping station is set further back on the Austerfield Drain.
A few of the better understood games, some of which are still played today, include the Ba ' game ( abbreviation of Ball ), Ball Game ( Atherstone ), Ball Game ( Sedgefield ), Bottle-kicking ( usually a leather bottle substitute ball ), Caid, Camp-ball ( early organized from late medieval includes ' kicking camp '), Cornish hurling (' Hurling to country ' & the organized ' Hurling to goals '), Cnapan, Foot-ball ( early organized from late medieval ), Football ( Masonic ceremonial ), Haxey Hood, La soule and Scoring the Hales.
In January 1397, Sir Thomas Haxey presented a petition to Parliament, criticising the costs of King Richard II of England's household.
The king was affronted and, with the collusion of Thomas Arundel, insisted that Haxey be punished for treason.
Haxey was deprived of his title and his possessions.
On deposing Richard in 1399, Henry IV of England successfully petitioned Parliament to reverse its judgment against Haxey as "… against the law and custom which had been before in Parliament.
Two plans for railways from London to York, which would have crossed the Isle, were proposed but not built, while the more local Isle of Axholme Extension Railway would have linked Haxey, Epworth, Crowle and Thorne.
It would run from Haxey to Crowle, and would use a gauge of.
At Haxey, it would join the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway, while at Crowle it would pass over and also connect to the Great Central Railway, and would join The Goole and Marshland Light Railway at.
The line involved more earthworks than the Goole and Marshland Light Railway, with major cuttings at Haxey and Epworth, where steam excavators were used, and a swing bridge over the canal at Crowle.
The work had involved excavating of earth to form the cuttings between Epworth and Haxey, and another had been used to construct the embankments by Crowle swing bridge.

Junction and section
The section of the main line between Brentford and Braunston ( formerly the Grand Junction Canal ), was built as a ' wide ' or ' broad ' canal-that is, its locks were wide enough to accommodate two narrowboats abreast ( side by side ) or a single wide barge up to 14 feet ( 4. 27 m ) in beam.
The north section leads to Rugby and Coventry ; the southward fork carries both the Oxford Canal and the Grand Union for 5 miles ( 8 km ) to Napton Junction.
** Montpelier Junction, the section of track outside Brighton railway station
The section of Interstate 40 which runs between Memphis and Nashville is often referred to as the Music Highway During reconstruction, a long section of I-40 through downtown Knoxville near the central Malfunction Junction was completely closed to traffic from May 1, 2008 and not reopened until June 12, 2009 with all traffic redirected via Interstate 640, the northern bypass route.
The section from Wootton Bassett Road to was opened on 31 May 1841, as was Swindon Junction station where the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway ( C & GWUR ) to Cirencester connected.
Although the line originally went all the way to Montrose, which is still a station on the main rail network, there are currently no immediate plans to link the Brechin line back into the main rail network, ( as the section at Hillside through onto Kinnaber Junction close to Montrse is now sadly redeveloped, sadly making it unlikely for the preserved railway to reconnect to the national network at all ).
The business section on Rockaway Avenue was called “ Rum Junction ” because of its lively nightlife.
Nevertheless, when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Company built the section of track between Brenham and Belton in 1881, it established the town of Milano Junction at the railway's intersection with the International-Great Northern, about two miles east of Milano.
On the southern section interesting features of the canal include the unique barrel-roofed lock keeper's cottages to be found south of Kingswood Junction.
With the possible restoration of the Barnsley Canal and the Dearne and Dove Canal, the section between Wakefield and the New Junction Canal might become part of a new " Yorkshire Ring ".
The section from Ogley Junction to Huddlesford is now known as the Lichfield Canal and is derelict, having been abandoned in 1955, under the terms of an Act of Abandonment obtained in 1954.
The section from East Grinstead to Culver Junction was closed in 1958, and the Lewes to Uckfield line in 1969 by British Rail.
At Braunston the Oxford connects with the Grand Junction section of the Grand Union Canal and heads west.
However, the short section between Braunston and Napton became the link between the Warwick and Napton Canal and the Grand Junction Canal, making it part of the busy direct route between Birmingham and London.
The Oxford Canal exploited this by charging high tolls for Grand Junction traffic on this short section.
However, with one eye on the developing railway network, in the 1820s the northern section of the canal between Braunston and Hawkesbury Junction was straightened out to reduce navigation time.
The first section of the Oxford Canal from Hawkesbury Junction was completed in 1771 and it reached Napton in 1774.
Central to the WCML is its-long core section between and Glasgow Central with principal InterCity stations at Watford Junction, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Nuneaton, Stafford, Crewe, Warrington, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme, Penrith, Carlisle and Motherwell.
In March 1970 the government gave approval to electrification of the northern section between Weaver Junction ( where the route to Liverpool diverges ) and Glasgow, and this was completed on 6 May 1974.
The main spine of the WCML is quadruple track almost all of the way from London to ( where the line diverges into sections to Manchester, North Wales, Liverpool, and Scotland ) except for a section of triple track between Brinklow Junction ( north of ), Attleborough South Junction ( south of ) on the Trent Valley Line and between Colwich Junction and where it is a mixture of triple and double track ( through the tunnel under the Shugborough estate ).
In the event only the section between Pyewipe Junction, near Lincoln and Chesterfield Market Place station, with some branch lines, was ever built.
The first section of GNR proper to be opened was the 3 miles from Doncaster to Askern Junction, where an end on connection was made with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway line from Knottingley.

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