Askern is frequently referred to in source material. It is a small town about two miles north west of Shaftholme Junction, which is normally taken as the connecting point of the GNR, the York and Newcastle Railway (later the North Eastern Railway) and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Knottingley line. It appears that "Askern" is used to refer to the intended junction, which was in a remote and as yet nameless location. See Wrottesley, volume I, p. 17; Grinling, p. 66; Tomlinson, p. 502; and Great Northern News (periodical of the Great Northern Railway Society), ISSN2399-6625, March–April 2019, p. 224.09
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