York
Location type
Major stationName and dates
YorkStation code: YRK National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the York Station (North Eastern Railway).
| Nearby stations York [1st] York [2nd] York Layerthorpe Earswick Poppleton Osbaldwick Murton Lane Naburn Murton Lane [1st] Copmanthorpe Haxby Dunnington Halt Hessay Dunnington Beningbrough | York Shed York Shed York coal depot NRM Station Hall York Shed Railway Museum [1st] Waterworks Junction National Railway Museum [York] Clifton Junction [York] Scarborough Bridge York North Junction Holgate Junction York Works York Destructor |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1841 | Great North of England Railway Line opened from York to Darlington. The Darlington to Newcastle powers are transferred to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway. |
| 05/10/1841 | Great 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. |
| 07/07/1845 | York and Scarborough Line (York and North Midland Railway) Opened from York to Scarborough. |
| / /1850 | Great Northern Railway Doncaster to York via Askern (immediately north-west of Doncaster on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) opened. GNR uses L&Y line from 4 miles north of Doncaster to Knottingley. |
| 07/08/1850 | Great Northern Railway Opened throughout. Route: London Maiden Lane (temporary terminus) to Boston to Lincoln (not via Peterborough to Retford) to Knottingley on North Midland Railway and not York itself. |
| 16/03/1951 | Great Northern Railway 14 are killed when a York to London King's Cross express derails at Doncaster on badly a maintained crossover. |
| 23/01/1955 | Lichfield to Sutton Coldfield Line (London and North Western Railway) 17 are killed when a York to Bristol express does not slow to 30mph, but enters a curve at Sutton Coldfield at 60mph. |
| 28/02/2001 | Selby to Askern Junction Line (North Eastern Railway) Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) York to London train crashes into a Landrover and trailer carrying a car (which had fallen from the M62), then de-rails and hits a Freightliner train at Great Heck near Selby. |
| 31/03/2004 | English, Welsh and Scottish Railway Withdraws Class 56s with a final Bristol to York railtour. |
