East Coast runs inter-city express services on the East Coast Main Line to Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, Wakefield, Lincoln, Hull, York, Darlington, Durham, Newcastle Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Glasgow Central, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness.

* Flintlock District ( includes the communities of Bedford, Burlington, Carlisle, Concord, Hanscom AFB, Lexington, Lincoln, North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, and Woburn )

The main line ran from London King's Cross via Hitchin, Peterborough, and Grantham, to York, with a loop line from Peterborough to Bawtry ( south of Doncaster ) via Boston and Lincoln, and branch lines to Sheffield and Wakefield.

Macmillan contested Seaham at the 1945 election, Lincoln in 1951 and Wakefield at a 1954 by-election.

After serving periods in Armley Gaol, Wakefield and Oakham jails, Poulson was released on 13 May 1977 from Lincoln Prison.

Gradually, a network of lines spread out from Adelaide, Port Wakefield, Wallaroo, Port Broughton, Port Augusta, Kingston SE, Beachport, Whyalla, Port Pirie and Port Lincoln.

Because the narrow gauge lines started out as isolated lines from independent ports at Port Wakefield, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Beachport, Kingston SE and Wallaroo, the problem of the nascent break of gauge was not immediately apparent.

Currently the station has a half-hourly service on weekdays to Doncaster ( with most trains continuing on to either or Adwick ) and hourly to Wakefield and Leeds, along with three trains per hour to Meadowhall and Sheffield ( one of which continues to Retford and Lincoln ).

Other public buildings included hospitals ( e. g., Lincoln and York ), racecourse grandstands ( e. g. York, Doncaster and Nottingham ), and prisons at Wakefield and Northallerton.

The station has a similar service level to neighbouring Rotherham Central, namely two trains per hour to Doncaster ( with one service carrying on to Scunthorpe and the other to Adwick ), one per hour to Wakefield and Leeds and three per hour to Rotherham and Sheffield in the other ( with one carrying on through to Gainsborough and Lincoln ).

The museum was designed to replicate the Boston & Maine's Greenwood Station in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

The fingertip grip is actually more commonly used today by pitchers who throw the knuckleball, like retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who had a knuckleball with a lot of movement.

On March 2, 2010, she trained with Tim Wakefield at the Boston Red Sox minor league training facility.

The Boston Red Sox did this fairly systematically in their 2004 world championship season, with Doug Mirabelli regularly catching in place of Jason Varitek when Tim Wakefield was pitching.

In 1864, the GNR acquired BS & MCR ( Boston to Sleaford ) and the Bourn and Essendine lines, leased the West Yorkshire ( Wakefield to Leeds with branches to Batley and Ossett ) and took a one third share in the Methley Joint ( Castleford to Lofthouse & Outwood ).

In the bottom of the 11th inning, Aaron Boone launched a solo home run off knuckleballing Boston starter Tim Wakefield ( pitching in relief ) to win the game and the pennant for the Yankees.

Wakefield began his pitching career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but is most remembered for his 17-year tenure with the Boston Red Sox, starting in 1995 and ending with his retirement in 2012 as the longest-serving player on the team.

Wakefield won his 200th career game on September 13, 2011 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and is third on the Boston Red Sox with 186 team victories, behind both Cy Young and Roger Clemens, who have 192 each.

Tim Wakefield pitched a scoreless tenth for Boston and in the bottom of the eleventh faced Aaron Boone, who had entered earlier as a pinch-runner.

* Tim Wakefield — Won Game 1 and Game 4 for the Red Sox, and very likely would have been the ALCS MVP had Boston held on to win the series.

A special glove ( which is actually a woman's softball catcher's mitt ) which Mirabelli had used in previous years to catch Wakefield had been left in Boston by Josh Bard for Mirabelli.

William Brewster was born on July 5, 1851, in South Reading ( now Wakefield ), Massachusetts, the youngest of four children born to John Brewster, a successful Boston banker, and Rebecca Parker ( Noyes ).

Wakefield, who was born and raised in Indianapolis but eventually moved to Boston, said he chose Boston both because he wanted to write about a city he knew well and also because he was tired of television's tendency to give programs Los Angeles or New York settings.

* Wants New Trial In Wakefield Massacre WBZ Boston ( Dec 6, 2006 )

After scoring six runs off Schilling, the Yankees added two more off Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in the sixth.

Dratch's recurring characters included Boston teen Denise ; Sheldon, the junior-high-school boy from Wake up, Wakefield ; the Lovers ( with Will Ferrell, as two pretentious professors ); Abe Scheinwald, a Hollywood producer ; and Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who creeped others out with disturbing non sequiturs.

Wakefield tied a career high of 17 wins pitching for the 2007 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox and Tewksbury was third in balloting for the National League Cy Young Award while going 16-5 for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1992.

The Wakefield village center along Main Street ( old Boston Post Road ) between Belmont Avenue and Columbia Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996 as Wakefield Historic District.

* July 31 – Boston and Maine Railroad, 2 men struck on track 16 inbound to Wakefield.

* Tim Wakefield, Boston Red Sox

As a member of the Boston Red Sox in April 2006, his primary duties were catching knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield.

* West Riding and Grimsby Joint Railway ( GCR / GNR )-giving access to Wakefield and thence to Leeds

In 1857, the West Yorkshire Railway opened their direct line from Wakefield to Leeds via Ardsley.

North of Doncaster, it opened the West Riding and Grimsby Railway in February 1866, a joint venture with the MS & LR, giving the GNR a new direct express line to Wakefield and the West Yorkshire Railway's onward lines to Leeds, Bradford and Halifax, which it had bought out the previous year.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway built a line from Pontefract and Wakefield in 1848 and the North Eastern Railway connected with Doncaster and Hull in 1870.

Askern is situated on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway line between Doncaster and Wakefield Kirkgate, though Askern railway station closed in 1947 and little remains of it.

* Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway, 31 July 1845 – 9 July 1847

* Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Goole Railway, 7 August 1846 – 2 August 1858

The Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield Railway, a tourist steam train follows the old train route up the Gatineau valley to Wakefield.

Railway lines through Methley, Castleford, Normanton, Wakefield in 1912

* here was the junction with the East & West Yorkshire Union Railway ( MidR / Great Northern Railway ( GNR ) joint: it was a direct connection to Wakefield via Rothwell

The original Kirkgate station opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1840 was the only station in Wakefield until Westgate was opened in 1867.

Category: Railway stations in Wakefield

Category: Railway stations in Wakefield

* 1848: the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway, 27 miles ( 43 km ) in length, opened.

* Wakefield Westgate ( also served by the Huddersfield and Wakefield lines ): the station was jointly owned by GCR and GNR ; to the south was the West Riding and Grimsby Joint Railway ( also owned by those companies )

Apart from his sporting and political careers Wakefield was instrumental in the preservation of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway and Lake District Estates, being Director of the former company after the death of Midlands Stockbroker Colin Gilbert.

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The section between Swinton ( Wath Road Junction ) and Cudworth had been plagued by mining subsidence for years, and so in October 1968 the decision was taken for safety reasons to divert all remaining passenger traffic onto the Swinton and Knottingley Railway via Moorthorpe, and thence Wakefield Westgate.

In 1846 there was a move by the long titled Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hull and Goole Railway to acquire the Sheffield Canal Company and provide itself with a city terminus.

The Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield & Goole Railway was formed in 1846 with the aim of providing access to the South Yorkshire coalfield.

Barnsley Court House station closed on 19 April 1960, following the commissioning of a new chord line south of the town near Quarry Junction that linked the former SYR route down the Blackburn Valley with the ex-Midland Railway line from Sheffield Midland, allowing services on the latter route to serve the station ( and continue northwards to Wakefield & Leeds ).