Norton railway station (South Yorkshire) and British Railways on nationalisation. The station closed to passengers on 27 September 1948. But the railway line is still open and now carries freight trains (mainly bulk coal) to and from the power stations at Drax, Ferrybridge & Eggborough, along with Grand Central's passenger services between Bradford Interchange and London Kings Cross since 2010. As part of a report to Doncaster Borough Council in September 2008 the station site was to be protected for future use in a strategy for the railways in the borough, reopening being a distant possibility. Norton railway station (South Yorkshire) Norton (South Yorkshire) railway
Richard Drax believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House - a Grade 1 Listed Manor House in rural Dorset. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton. Drax is the eldest son of Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax and The Hon. Pamela Weeks and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany ("cr." 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of