Railways also contributed to the expansion of Rowntree’s Cocoa Works, founded by Henry Isaac Rowntree in 1862 and by 1900 the railways and confectionery had become York’s two major industries.
5. Sheffield Victoria Station
A large goods train of special wagons of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) passing through Sheffield Victoria Station in April 1930. The train was intended to showcase the railway's freight-carrying capacity and is being shown to a party of nearly four hundred guests of the Sheffield Rotary Club and the LNER. Photo: Topical Press Agency / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
6. Yorkshire station
A London and North-Eastern Railway petrol train in 1931 at an unknown Yorkshire station. Photo: Fox Photos / Getty Images
7. Doncaster Railway Station
Locomotive manufacture at the London and North Eastern Railway works in January 1931 at Doncaster station. Photo: Fox Photos / Getty Images
8. LNER Museum, York
A group of schoolboys sitting on the tender of the latest LNER Shire engine at the LNER Museum, York in April 1933. They are being given a demonstration of engine-driving by a professional, one of the features at a special Railway Exhibition. Photo: William Vanderson / Fox Photos / Getty Images