Ripon lost its railway service in 1967.
"First we lost our railway," Mr. Rewniak said.
Steve Hawkins, from Network Rail, explained: "The last time it flooded we lost the railway for two or three days but we lost the signalling equipment, so we had restricted working, for two or three weeks.
It had never lost its railway-station look (the Barrault theatre was an independent wooden contraption that sat inside the old station, much as the glass and metal structure of the Royal Exchange in Manchester sits in its building); it seemed rather to glory in its history, and was copied 10 years later by the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
In 1915, when the railway lost 12 percent of its revenue owing to disruptions in trade caused by the start of World War I, Harrison was concerned about longer-term changes underway.
Its story of a manuscript lost at a Paris railway station parallels that of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, who lost track of a suitcase containing some of his manuscripts in 1922.
Six commuters and four railway staff lost their lives after builder Gary Hart fell asleep at the wheel of his Land Rover and plunged off the M62 and on to the East Coast mainline.
It's 1906 and Jim Stringer, the young engine man who came by his exciting job in "The Necropolis Railway" (and lost it in "The Blackpool Highflyer"), has just been hired as a detective by the North Eastern Railway Police.
Meanwhile, we found an old hanger, a vast lost granary by the railway, empty for a generation and too large for the corporations that were grabbing all the available space.
On 15 November 1830, exactly two months after the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Wellington lost a vote of no confidence and was replaced as Prime Minister a week later by Earl Grey.
