Castle Howard railway station Castle Howard railway station Castle Howard railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Welburn and the stately home at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, England. On the York to Scarborough Line it was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway. The architect was George Townsend Andrews. It closed to passenger traffic on 22 September 1930 but continued to be staffed until the 1950s for small volumes of freight and parcels. The station was often used by the aristocracy, notably Queen Victoria when she visited Castle Howard with Prince Albert as a
Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising peer as Baron Howard of Rising, of Castle Rising in the County of Norfolk. He has been a councillor on King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council from 2003. A member of the influential Howard family, Howard is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Redvers Greville Howard, son of Sir Charles Alfred Howard, second son of the Hon. Greville Howard, second son of Charles Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk. His mother is Patience, daughter of Charles Nicholl. Lord Howard of Rising has married three times. Firstly he married Zoe Walker, daughter of Douglas Walker, in 1968. Divorced in 1972, he married secondly,