Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide
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MODERN TOEK. 149<br />
is peculiarly interesting;—within the Bar-walls, which<br />
gently curve round, <strong>and</strong> tower above it; from which persons<br />
walking upon them, can see the trains approaching the city,<br />
passing through the walls, <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>ing their passengers at<br />
the station. The principal part of the station presents a<br />
front to Tanner-row. It is a h<strong>and</strong>some <strong>and</strong> well arranged<br />
building, with a spacious booking office, waiting rooms for<br />
passengers, <strong>and</strong> several other commodious offices. Oppo<br />
site to this, at about the distance of a hundred feet, <strong>and</strong><br />
fronting the Bar-walls, is a corresponding building with<br />
waiting <strong>and</strong> refreshment rooms for the passengers ; kitchens,<br />
larders, cellars, &c, being arranged on the basement. The<br />
intervening space between these two great wings of the<br />
station, is roofed in. The roof, which is supported by cast<br />
iron pillars, is intended for the protection of the carriages<br />
<strong>and</strong> merch<strong>and</strong>ise. The departure stage, at the Tanner-row<br />
side, is 400 feet in length, <strong>and</strong> 18 feet in breadth; <strong>and</strong> the<br />
arrival stage, at the opposite side, is of the same dimensions.<br />
This magnificent station, is used jointly by the <strong>York</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
North Midl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> the Great North of Engl<strong>and</strong> Railway<br />
Companies. The <strong>York</strong> <strong>and</strong> North Midl<strong>and</strong> line was opened<br />
to the public on the 30th of May, 1839, to the junction of<br />
the Leeds <strong>and</strong> Selby line, a distance of 14 miles; <strong>and</strong> was<br />
opened throughout to the junction near Castleford, a<br />
distance of 24 miles from <strong>York</strong>, in May, 1840. A tem<br />
porary station was constructed without Micklegate Bar,<br />
which was used until the opening of the station in Tan<br />
ner-row in the beginning of 1841. On the 31st of March,<br />
1841, the Great North of Engl<strong>and</strong> Railway was opened<br />
to the public, from Darlington to <strong>York</strong>, a distance of 44J<br />
miles. <strong>York</strong> is now the point at which two of the great<br />
lines of railway cross each other. There is a complete<br />
railway communication from east to west—from Hull to<br />
Liverpool ; <strong>and</strong> from north to south, there is a complete<br />
line from London to the county of Durham, passing through<br />
<strong>York</strong>. There is, therefore, no place in Engl<strong>and</strong> more<br />
favourably situated, with regard to railways, than this city,<br />
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