Drax power station Selby Coalfield discovery in 1967 the Board would build three large power stations to use its coal. These were; an expansion of the station at Ferrybridge, a new station at Eggborough, and the biggest being Drax. In 1983/84 Drax was presented with the Hinton Cup, the CEGB's ""good house keeping trophy"". The award was commissioned by Sir Christopher Hinton, the first chairman of the CEGB. Authority to carry out preparatory works was granted in December 1964, leading to full permission in March 1966, on the basis that the station would be designed to accommodate six 660 MW units, but that
Read School, Drax Read School, Drax The Read School is a boarding, day, and independent school, based in the rural village of Drax, near Selby, North Yorkshire. Formerly a boys' school, it became co-educational in 1996. As of 2010 it hosts approximately 350 boys and girls between the ages of 3-18, comprising a senior school of approximately 280 and a junior school of around 70 children. Drax grammar school was founded in 1667 by Charles Reade, who wanted boys from poor families to be able to "read, write and cast accounts" and to teach them "Latin, Greek and Hebrew and other languages as