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Bedale and Leyburn Railway

Dates

/05/1856	Bedale and Leyburn Railway Opened for passengers. Built as a single track line.
/04/1954	Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway) Closed to passengers.
/ /1992	Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway) Northallerton (excluded) to Redmire closed to limestone traffic from Redmire. Line mothballed.
/ /1996	Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway) Line re-opened to Redmire for military traffic to Catterick Camp.

Locations along the line

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Bedale

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Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)

Bedale station, from the road side, in July 2021. ...
Ken Strachan 29/07/2021

K1 no 62005 passes Bedale station with the Wensleydale and Durham Coast railtour on 21 March 2015. With a number of reversals during the tour, ...
John McIntyre 21/03/2015

K4 no 61994 The Great Marquess on the rear of the Wensleydale and Durham Coast railtour on 21 March 2015. The train is seen heading west ...
John McIntyre 21/03/2015

The rustic old signal box alongside the A684 level crossing in Bedale on what is now the Wensleydale Railway. Photographed in October 2004 looking ...
John Furnevel 31/10/2004

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Crakehall

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Crakehall station from the level crossing in 1982. ...
John McIntyre //1982

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Newton-le-Willows

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Most local services from Wigan North Western to Lime St run via St Helens but a couple of morning trains are routed via the Golborne and Lowton ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2023

Rush hour at Newton-le-Willows at around 1415 hrs on 10 September 2022 with TfW 175002 on the 1D38 Manchester Airport to Llandudno service as TPE ...
John McIntyre 10/09/2022

With the completion of the new station buildings and lift access at Newton-le-Willows the 1848 station building is no longer in railway use. ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2023

A Manchester to Liverpool service with 150211 calls at Newton-le-Willows on 19th April 2014. ...
John McIntyre 19/04/2014

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Finghall Lane

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Finghall Lane station from the level crossing in March 1982. ...
John McIntyre 07/03/1982

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Constable Burton

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Spennithorne

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Leyburn

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Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)

'Up against the wall...' Remains of the old goods yard crane on display in what is now the visitors car park at Leyburn on the Wensleydale ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011

Passenger entrance to Leyburn station on the Wensleydale Railway, looking north across the car park in the summer of 2011. Adjoining the booking ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011

Remains of the coal drops in the old goods yard at Leyburn, looking east towards Northallerton in June 2011. See image 19458 from 1982. Industrial ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011

With Leyburn station a few hundred yards behind the camera, this wintery view looks west from the A684 road bridge towards Wensley and Redmire in ...
John McIntyre 07/03/1982

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Bedale and Leyburn Railway

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Locations along the line

Bedale

Crakehall

Newton-le-Willows

Finghall Lane

Constable Burton

Spennithorne

Leyburn

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