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Introduction

This line is still open. This railway ran York to Darlington. The original intention was for the line to run from York to Newcastle. It became part of the North Eastern Railway.






Dates

  /  /1836Great North of England Railway
Authorised from York to Newcastle
04/07/1836Great North of England Railway
Act for line between Redhaugh Quay, Gateshead, and Croft, Darlington and on to York.
  /  /1841Great North of England Railway
Line opened from York to Darlington. The Darlington to Newcastle powers are transferred to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway.
05/10/1841Great North of England Railway
Powers from Darlington to Gateshead relinquished to Robert Davies, James Richardson and John Hotham of York acting on behalf of the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway.
02/01/1842Railway Clearing House
The Railway Clearing House is established. Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, Great North of England Railway, Hull and Selby Railway, Leeds and Selby Railway, London and Birmingham Railway, Manchester and Leeds Railway, Midland Counties Railway, North Midland Railway and York and North Midland Railway join.
11/04/1843Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway
Darlington to Gateshead section of the Great North of England Railway formally handed over in Act of Parliament.
19/06/1844Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway
Line opened, with engines and rolling stock provided by the Great North of England Railway.
  /08/1844Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway
Notifies the Great North of England Railway that it will take over its own operation.
21/07/1845Leeds and Thirsk Railway
Company incorporated, line receives act; Leeds to Thirsk with two branches to the Leeds and Bradford Railway one at Bramley and one at Holbeck, one curve to the Great North of England Railway at Thirsk, and two short branches to Harrogate and Knaresborough.
  /  /1850Great North of England Railway Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
The Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway buys the Great North of England Railway and becomes the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Holgate Junction

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York Station (North Eastern Railway)
York and North Midland Railway
37511 and 37506 on Corby to Lackenby steel empties at York Holgate in May 1987. Often the empty northbound and loaded southbound services would pass ...
Roger Geach 07/05/1987
DB Cargo 66051 heads south at Holgate Jct whilst working the Wilton to Knowsley 'binliner' service on 14 September 2017. ...
John McIntyre 14/09/2017
Pioneer Voyager 220001, on a Newcastle to Guildford Cross Country service, leaves York passing Holgate Junction. The large running in ...
Mark Bartlett 18/07/2015
A cattle wagon in the dock near Holgate Junction, seen from a passing train in 1974. This seems very late in the history of livestock by rail.
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Bill Roberton //1974
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York [2nd]

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York and North Midland Railway





York North Junction

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Skelton Junction

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East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway
York Station (North Eastern Railway)
Manchester to Cressington Junction Line (Cheshire Lines Committee)
Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway
Peak 45025 on the station avoiding line at York with a down freight in the summer of 1980. ...
John Furnevel 23/07/1980
An EE Type 4 coming off the York station avoiding line on the approach to Skelton Junction with a northbound ballast train in July 1980 . ...
John Furnevel 21/07/1980
Skelton Junction York, Leeds service passing. ...
Ewan Crawford //
View south from Skelton Junction as 47407 leaves York with a Newcastle train in 1980. ...
John Furnevel 23/07/1980
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Skelton Bridge Junction

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Beningbrough

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Colas 70806 at speed on the up slow line approaching The Sidings lineside hotel and restaurant at Beningbrough (See image28243) with the lengthy ...
David Pesterfield 31/07/2023
Freightliner 66588 on the northbound slow line at Overton Lane overbridge near Beningbrough on 12 February with a rake of empty coal wagons. ...
David Pesterfield 12/02/2015
A smokebox door mocked up and purporting to be from Raven Q6 0-8-0 63412 adorns the wall of the entrance foyer of The Sidings Hotel and ...
David Pesterfield 29/06/2014
66711 on First GBRF Drax Power Station to Tyne Dock empty northbound working passes Shipton north of York at 10.35 on 25 Mar '10 just after loaded ...
David Pesterfield 25/03/2010
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Tollerton

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An unexpected pair of Colas locos on a light engine movement from Carlisle New Yard to Doncaster Carriage Holding Sidings. 66848 leads sister 66849 ...
David Pesterfield 23/06/2021
May 2019 view south, from the nearby road overbridge, of the complex pointwork and catenary at Tollerton Junction. There is a high speed crossover ...
David Pesterfield 30/05/2019
An unidentified Colas Rail class 70 loco heads north mid-morning, on a short rake of ballast loaded twin axle wagons, with the daily northbound ...
David Pesterfield 30/05/2019
The final road overbridge replacement on the section of East Coast Main Line between Skelton and Alne was that on Station Road at Tollerton. This view ...
David Pesterfield 30/05/2019
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Alne

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Easingwold Railway
The completed rebuild of the former Easingwold Branch line crossing keeper's cottage at Alne. This updated view shows how the original road facing ...
David Pesterfield 25/06/2016
The former goods shed by the ECML at Alne Station is no more. The old goods yard has been cleared to allow construction of modular build based ...
David Pesterfield 24/08/2021
The former goods shed by the ECML at Alne Station is no more. The old goods yard has been cleared to allow construction of modular build based ...
David Pesterfield 24/08/2021
The former goods shed and yard at Alne, seen looking north east from the roadside on 25 March 2010. Alne station closed to passengers in 1958 and was ...
John Furnevel 25/03/2010
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Raskelf

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Cross Country 9-coach 221/220 combination, formed of 221127+220032, heading south near Raskelf with the long distance 1V58 11.39 Newcastle to Penzance ...
David Pesterfield 17/06/2021
GBRf 66785 is seen running north, just after the site of Raskelf station, on 17 June 2021. It is hauling a rake of twenty two former EWS HHA bogie ...
David Pesterfield 17/06/2021
GBRf 66790 heads south near Raskelf with the 6H70 12.19 Tyne Coal Terminal - Drax Power Station biomass working on 5 Aug 2021. This is one of three ...
David Pesterfield 05/08/2021
A pair of LNER Hitachi Azuma 5-coach units, 801206 & 801203, head south on the up fast line approaching the former Raskelf station site, to rear of ...
David Pesterfield 19/04/2021
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Bishophouse Junction

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Pilmoor to Malton Line (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
GBRf 66738 Huddersfield Town runs south on the ECML towards Raskelf Bridge on a Tyne Coal Terminal to Drax Power Station working on 15 May 2018. It is ...
David Pesterfield 15/05/2018
A chance view of two then Virgin East Coast workings crossing near Raskelf Bridge sited just south of Bishophouse Junction for the Malton & Pickering ...
David Pesterfield 28/05/2018
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Sessay Wood Junction

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Pilmoor to Malton Line (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)





Pilmoor

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Views at Sun Beck Gatehouse which was located on the down side east of Sun Beck level crossing some 250 metres east of Sun Beck Junction, on the line ...
David Pesterfield 28/05/2018
Views at Sun Beck Gatehouse, which was located on the down side east of Sun Beck level crossing some 250 metres east of Sun Beck Junction, on the line ...
David Pesterfield 28/05/2018
Just south of Pilmoor Station the local road between Sessay and Brafferton first crosses the main line on Jobbing Cross Bridge and then the route of ...
David Pesterfield 02/05/2021
Pilmoor Junction station sat astride the original twin track, and later four track, East Coast Main Line and also had a platform on the branch line ...
David Pesterfield 02/05/2021
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Sessay

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Grab shot over the car, looking north easterly, of an unidentified Hitachi built 5-coach Bi-Mode EMU running on electric power on the up fast line ...
David Pesterfield 24/03/2021
A pairing of a DRS Class 88 electro diesel and a Class 68 diesel head a diverted John Russell intermodal working north along the East Coast Main line ...
David Pesterfield 28/04/2021
A late afternoon GMT time grab shot of an unexpected northbound working of a Lumo Hitachi 803 (electric only) 5-car unit seen just north of the former ...
David Pesterfield 31/10/2021
One of GBRfs recently imported class 66 locos, now numbered as 66796 and given a dedicated and colourful HS2 livery, is seen working north in February ...
David Pesterfield 28/02/2022
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Thirsk

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Leeds and Thirsk Railway
Arriving at the platform is the slightly late 15.31 TPE ex York to Middlesbrough. Yes, it WAS blowy and raining! (Storm Brian strikes). ...
Bruce McCartney 21/10/2017
A service for Manchester Airport boarding at Thirsk on 1 April 2008. First TransPennine 185135 started its journey in Middlesbrough and has arrived ...
John Furnevel 01/04/2008
Colas Class 70 70814 is seen heading south with a loaded GBRf biomass working from Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station during a loan period for assessing ...
David Pesterfield 30/03/2018
GBRf (ex Eurospec) 66745 heading south at Thirsk just before 15.00 on 27 December 2018 with the 11.27 North Blyth to Drax Power Station loaded coal ...
David Pesterfield 27/12/2018
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Otterington

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A CrossCountry Voyager passing Otterington on the down ECML approaching Northallerton on 3 October 2008. The station closed to passenger traffic in ...
John Furnevel 03/10/2008
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Longlands Junction

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Northallerton South Junction

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Northallerton

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A slightly premature view of Colas Rail 70801 as it accelerates from Longlands Junction, after waiting for the two line section north to clear, with ...
David Pesterfield 16/10/2020
TPE 185128, heading south towards York, about to leave Northallerton Station on 2nd June 2019.
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Peter Todd 02/06/2019
The late running 15.50 ex Middlesbrough TransPennine Express service to Manchester Airport rushes past Low Gates signalbox on 14 January as it ...
David Pesterfield 14/01/2012
Grand Central Trains 11.23 Kings Cross - Sunderland HST service photographed on the approach to Low Gates level crossing on 9 July 2012, shortly after ...
John Furnevel 09/07/2012
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Castle Hills Junction

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Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
91108 propels an ECML service south at speed passing Castle Hills Junction. This image was taken from a train on the adjacent reversing line. The ...
Mark Bartlett 21/03/2015
The main line connection for the Wensleydale Railway is a reversing siding at Castle Hills Junction alongside the ECML just north of Northallerton ...
Mark Bartlett 21/03/2015
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Danby Wiske

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Cowton

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Eryholme Junction

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Richmond Branch (Great North of England Railway)





Eryholme

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Croft Spa

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Views taken close to the Tees Viaduct, located south of Croft-on-Tees, where the East Coast main line traverses the historic boundary between ...
David Pesterfield 19/11/2017
View taken close to the Tees Viaduct, located south of Croft-on-Tees, where the East Coast main line traverses the historic boundary between Yorkshire ...
David Pesterfield 19/11/2017
View taken close to the Tees Viaduct, located south of Croft-on-Tees, where the East Coast main line traverses the historic boundary between Yorkshire ...
David Pesterfield 19/11/2017
Looking north to the poorly maintained and narrow width ECML over-bridge across the A167 Northallerton Road, a short distance to the south of Croft on ...
David Pesterfield 19/11/2017
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Snipe House Junction

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Croft Junction

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Croft Branch (Stockton and Darlington Railway)
Stockton and Darlington Railway





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