Gare de Carency

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La gare de Carency, dite aussi halte ou station, est un ancien arrêt de la ligne de chemin de fer secondaire de Lens à Frévent de la Société des chemins de fer économiques du Nord (CEN), située sur le territoire de la commune de Carency, dans le département du Pas-de-Calais, en région Hauts-de-France.

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Carency

Carency is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. 8 miles northwest of Arras. Carency is also the name of the brook upstream of the Deûle river which flows through the village.

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Ablain-Saint-Nazaire

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Villers-au-Bois

Villers-au-Bois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 8 miles northwest of Arras.

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Battle of Lorette Hill

The Battle of Lorette Hill was a series of military engagements between the armies of Germany and France on the Western front of World War I, lasting from October 1915 to September 1915. The fighting took place neat the Notre Dame de Lorette chapel on the Coquaine Hill, Pas-de-Calais in north-western France. Strategically important uphill post was occupied by the Germans on 7 October 1914 during the battle of Arras, since then their positions were attacked by the French army during the First Battle of Artois and Second Battle of Artois finally retaking the whole site in the Third Battle of Artois in September 1915. The battlefield later became a place of the biggest military necropolis of the French soldiers containing the remains of about 40,000 men.

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William Middleton Wallace

William "Willie" Middleton Wallace was a rugby union player. He played fullback for Cambridge University RFC and was capped for Scotland in 1913–14. Having grown up in Edinburgh, Willie Wallace went to King's College, Cambridge in 1912, where he was immediately noticed for his rugby-playing ability. He was selected to play against Oxford in the Varsity Match in his first term. Later in the season, in March 1913, Scotland picked him to play away against England, in a close game, which England won by just three points. The following season he played in all three Home Nations matches against Wales, Ireland and England. He was commissioned second lieutenant in The Rifle Brigade at the start of the First World War and departed for the Western Front a few weeks later. In February 1915, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps and soon became No. 2 Squadron's senior observer. In August 1915, while on a photographic reconnaissance mission, his aircraft was shot down in northern France, near Lille. At the time of his death, it was suggested that he might have been the first undergraduate to see action in the war.

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La gare est dotée à son origine d'une simple aubette en briques. Elle est en en partie détruite pendant la première Guerre Mondiale et reconstruite après-guerre. De nos jours, cette aubette existe toujours et a été rénovée.

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La gare est dotée d'une simple aubette d'un modèle standardisé également utilisé par les Chemins de fer économiques du Nord sur ses autres lignes du réseau du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais, dont celle de Liencourt sur ligne de Lens à Frévent. L'aubette en briques comporte 1 seul étage de 3 travées, dont 2 portes en extrémités et 1 fenêtre au centre ainsi qu'une fenêtre sur chaque côté.