 The princess travelled by rail to Charwelton station, where the children of Charwelton were turned out in their best clothes and waving union flags to welcome her.In 1917 the Park Gate Iron and Steel Company, based at Parkgate near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, opened an ironstone quarry south of the nearby village of Hellidon, and had a standard gauge mineral railway built to bring the stone to the main line.Quarrying ceased in June 1933 but the Ministry of Supply ordered its resumption in May 1941.