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Joan Croft Halt railway station
Joan Croft Halt railway station was a small halt on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) situated by a level crossing at Joan Croft Junction in South Yorkshire, England. The junction gives access from the ECML to the Skellow line of the West Riding and Grimsby Railway and eventually to Hull, Immingham and Grimsby Docks.
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North Doncaster Chord
The North Doncaster Chord (also known as the Shaftholme Flyover) is a railway connection (chord) between the freight only lines between Hatfield & Stainforth railway station (the Skellow line) and the Askern branch line, in South Yorkshire, England. The line was built to allow heavy freight trains, mostly from the Port of Immingham, to access the power stations in the lower Aire Valley without the need for them to use the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and creating slower line speeds for faster passenger trains. The chord meant the creation of 2 miles (3.2 km) of new railway and the building of Shaftholme Viaduct, which straddles the East Coast Main Line.
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Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve
Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve is a 77-hectare (190-acre) nature reserve located south-west of Thorpe in Balne, north of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. The reserve is managed and maintained by a team of volunteers under the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust as well as Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
The reserve shares its name with the coal-fired power station which occupied the adjacent land prior to its closure in 1994 and the demolition of its remaining cooling towers in 2012. The site is on an area of lowland susceptible to flooding (floodplain) by the River Don, thus creating an area of marshland on which the reserve sits (hence the appended "marsh").
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Thorpe Marsh Green Energy Hub
Thorpe Marsh Green Energy Hub is a battery energy storage system currently under construction around 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Doncaster, near the villages of Thorpe in Balne and Barnby Dun, in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on a brownfield site between the remnants of Thorpe Marsh Power Station to the east, and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's Thorpe Marsh Nature Reserve to the west.
When completed, the energy hub will be the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom, and one of the largest in Europe and the world, being capable of storing up to 3.1 GWh (11 TJ) of energy at a power of 1.4 GW. This, however, does not make it the UK's largest energy storage site, which, as of September 2025, is Dinorwig Power Station in north Wales, with a capacity of 9.1 GWh (33 TJ). Thorpe Marsh is expected to be capable of exporting 2,000 GWh (7,200 TJ) to the grid per annum.
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Tilts
Tilts is a hamlet in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, some 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Doncaster city centre and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Askern. Aside from some farms, there is a moated site which is a scheduled monument.