http://yorkstories.co.uk A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/yorkshire-churches/st-mary-alne/#comment-121825 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 18:59:01 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1602#comment-121825 Thank you for this lovely memory. After Alne I went on a bit further, and cycled to Raskelf station, as it once was, as my great-grandfather had worked there for a time. A shame all these stations closed. Would have been nice to be able to get a train back – was a long and rather arduous cycle ride!

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/yorkshire-churches/st-mary-alne/#comment-120859 Sat, 02 Aug 2014 08:24:22 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1602#comment-120859 A dear friend of mine was Alf Whitelock who lived near Alne Station. He was a signal man at Alne station who allowed me to enter the signal box where
I witnessed him operating the levers to direct trains
onto the correct tracks. There was also a branch line that went to Easingwold but sadly this is no longer in use. Alf was also an amateur radio operator and thus communicated with other like people all over England. Sadly he died before his
time and is now buried in Alne Churchyard.

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