Transport in Doncaster the largest increase on Saturdays. This has been seen as the biggest upgrade in services since 1990 when the electrification ofnthe East Coast Mainline was completed. Northern Rail and TransPennine Express are both expected to release new timetables in the coming months increasing services to East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Northern will also scrap the pacer trains by 2019 meaning many new and refurbished trains will be introduced in and around Doncaster and South Yorkshire. Doncaster Sheffield Airport opened on 28 April 2005 as Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport. The airport was created following the redevelopment of the former Royal
Doncaster, Victoria popular location to view lightning due to its location and elevation. In 1841 Frederic Unwin, a Sydney solicitor, bought of land, including most of the present suburb of Doncaster, from the Crown for one pound an acre under the terms of the short-lived Special Survey regulations. The area was sometimes known as Unwin's Special Survey. The Doncaster region was settled in the 1860s and 1870s, predominantly by German settler orchardists. The German community was named Waldau, but the name Doncaster gradually became commonly accepted. A Lutheran church was the first one in Doncaster in 1858. A Lutheran school opened in