Wensleydale Railway Rail Link Photos - Jervaulx (Newton-le-Willows) Station and its Social History

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Jervaulx (Newton-le-Willows) Station and its Social History

The station at Newton-le-Willows was called Jervaulx after a nearby village with a famous ruined abbey a few miles away. This was to avoid confusion with another Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire - a much bigger town.

Here are a few photos of Newton-le-Willows and its social history.

We are running an ongoing research programme into the history of the Wensleydale Railway, which runs from Northallerton to Redmire, and we would be delighted to hear from anyone who has a family connection with the railway or can help us piece together its story over the last 150 years. To get in touch, please email education@wensleydalerailway.com or telephone 01677-425805.

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Photo - Steve Hall Collection
Newton Le Willows looking towards Jervaulx station. Date is a guess (1910)
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Photo - Steve Hall Collection
Newton Le Willows looking towards Jervaulx station. Date is a guess (1910)
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Photo - Steve Hall Collection
George Carter - a Ganger at Leyburn and Newton le Willows - in the garden of his house at Newton Le Willows (close to Jervaulx station). Date is a guess. (1910)
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Photo - David Payne Collection
George Carter (the grandfather of David Payne), a Ganger at Leyburn and Newton le Willows, in the garden of his house at Newton Le Willows (close to Jervaulx station. He occupied the cottage and extension on the left of the photo and I think a family called Rainbow lived in the cottage on the right. The cottages are now part of a larger house on the same site. Photo thought to be around the 1920s (1925)
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Photo - David Payne Collection
David Payne has supplied a photo of the Wedding of his Great Aunt, Ruth Carter, to Harold Gaythorpe in April 1924. The photo was taken outside of the cottage of his Great Grandfather, George Carter, in Newton le Willows in 1924 which shows Jervaulx Station in the background. Harold Gaythorpe was a signalman at Bedale and he features prominently in the Wensleydale Railway book, along with his Son, Alan, who was an Engine Driver on the line. (--/04/1924)
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