Harrogate Railway Athletic F.C.
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| Full name | Harrogate Railway Athletic Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Rail, The Locomotives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Station View, Harrogate, North Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 3500 (300 Seated) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Dennis Bentley |
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| Manager | Martin Haresign |
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| League | NPL First Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 3rd, NCEL Premier Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Harrogate Railway Athletic F.C. are a football club based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. They joined the Yorkshire Football League Division Two in 1955 and were the founding members of the Northern Counties East Football League in 1982. In the 2002-03 season, they reached the 2nd round of the FA Cup. In 2006 they won promotion from the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division to the Northern Premier League First Division.
[edit] Formation
The club was formed in 1935 when workers from Starbeck LNER loco shed formed an adult team to play in the Harrogate & District League. In 1946 the side consisted entirely of railway men and reached the British Railways National Cup Final.
This success prompted the club to go in search of a ground of their own but they stayed at Station View when the LNER said that they would lend the club the £1500 necessary to purchase the site providing 300 rail workers would agree to having 1d a week stopped from their wages to finance the repayments. More than sufficient volunteers signed up and they did not have long to wait for their faith to be repaid on the pitch. In 1949 both of the dubs sides won their respective league championships plus a full set of local cups. The first team winning all 24 league matches with a goal tally of 150 goals to 29 against.
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