Malton and Driffield Junction Railway

Introduction

This was a railway between Malton and Driffield, largely single track but with many structures built to take a second if it were to be doubled. The route included the Burdale Tunnel. The line opened in 1853, closed to passengers in 1950 and closed to goods in 1958. A short portion survived between Malton East Junction and Scarborough Road Junction as a reversing spur until 1964. This was for the 1853 Pilmoor to Malton Line (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) which extended the route west to Pilmoor on the East Coast Main Line. This was part of a greater aspiration to create a Hull to Newcastle through route.





Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.



A view along the north side of Scarborough Road rail underbridge in Norton North Yorks showing the still accessible trackbed through the bridge. ...
David Pesterfield 11/06/2018
The road overbridge on Scarborough Road in Norton North Yorkshire, seen in a view looking west towards the town centre, sat above Scarborough Road ...
David Pesterfield 11/06/2018
A view in a north westerly direction, from Scarborough Road rail underbridge in Norton North Yorks, to the road built along part of the spur that ...
David Pesterfield 11/06/2018
View looking north by Scarborough Road overbridge in Norton near Malton in December 2018. The junction, where the line from Pilmoor met the two track ...
David Pesterfield 10/12/2018
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A scanned 35mm colour slide image, taken in December 1986, of the North Grimston Viaduct, between North Grimston and Setttrington, East Yorkshire, on ...
Peter Todd /12/1986
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View south showing the site of the level crossing across Luddith Road and the trackbed passing the former North Grimston Station House. The coal drop ...
David Pesterfield 17/04/2017
View south along Luddith Road to the former railway properties by the former North Grimston Station & Goods Yard. the former station house is ahead ...
David Pesterfield 17/04/2017
Looking along part of the platform at North Grimston from where the level crossing had been towards Malton on 23 October 2009. The station house and ...
John McIntyre 23/10/2009
Two for the price of one. Approaching North Grimston level crossing from the north along Ludith Road in 2009. In the centre, to the left of the ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2009
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Looking at the northern portal of the Burdale Tunnel on 23 October 2009. This end of the tunnel is about a mile from Wharram station and a short ...
John McIntyre 23/10/2009
Standing above the south portal of Burdale tunnel in May 1982 looking towards the quarry and former station. The tunnel is on the old NER Driffield - ...
Peter Todd 30/05/1982
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Looking north across the route of the level crossing over the Wetwang to Malton Road to the Fimber Gatehouse situated immediately south of the site of ...
David Pesterfield 07/03/2021
The 1853 station at Sledmere and Fimber in East Yorkshire, thought to have been taken in the mid 1950s. The platform had been shortened to handle ...
Peter Todd Collection //
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Fimber Halt, the depot of the Yorkshire Wolds Railway who hope to restore at least part of the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway as a heritage ...
Peter Todd 11/03/2016
Fimber Halt showing the beginnings of the Yorkshire Wolds Railway. ...
Peter Todd 11/03/2016
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Looking down Station Hill at Wetwang at the field to the left of Wetwang Station level crossing, and both the crossing and the raised line of the now ...
David Pesterfield 22/04/2018
Looking north down Station Hill towards the former Wetwang Station in April 2018. The line ran through the gap in the hedge to the left just before ...
David Pesterfield 22/04/2018
The uncomfortable sounding Wetwang, on the Malton & Driffield Junction Railway in East Yorkshire. The station lost its passenger service in 1950, ...
John Furnevel 21/04/2009
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The much modified Garton station (1853), situated between Malton and Driffield in the Yorkshire Wolds. The station lost its passenger service in June ...
John Furnevel 21/04/2009
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