Leeming Bar railway station
| Leeming Bar | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Place | Leeming Bar |
| Area | Hambleton |
| Coordinates | 54°18′19″N 1°33′39″W / 54.305326°N 1.560705°WCoordinates: 54°18′19″N 1°33′39″W / 54.305326°N 1.560705°W |
| Grid reference | SE285900 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway |
| Managed by | Wensleydale Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| 6 March 1848 | Opened as Leeming Lane |
| 1 July 1902 | Renamed Leeming Bar |
| 26 April 1954 | Closed |
| Spring 2003 | Reopened |
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Leeming Bar railway station was the eastern rail passenger terminus of the Wensleydale Railway until Northallerton West railway station was opened on 22 November 2014.[1] The station serves the villages of Leeming Bar and Leeming in North Yorkshire, England. Trains are timed to link in with Dales and District service buses to Northallerton to connect with the National Rail network.
Plans are for passenger trains to continue through Leeming Bar and run into Northallerton railway station rather than the temporary structure at Northallerton West once agreement has been reached with Network Rail.[2]
Leeming Bar is also the location of the Wensleydale Railway's main depot where its increasing amount of rolling stock is stored and is visible from the A1.
The station was opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (a constituent company of the North Eastern Railway) in 1848 as the terminus of their branch from Northallerton.[3] The line was then extended westwards to Leyburn by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway seven years later. It closed to passengers in April 1954 when the Northallerton to Hawes service fell victim to road competition, but reopened under Wensleydale Railway ownership in the summer of 2003.[4] As well as the scheduled passenger service, the station also sees periodic train loads of military hardware travelling between Catterick Garrison and various destinations in the south of England via Northallerton and the ECML.[5]
| Preceding station |  Heritage railways |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bedale | Wensleydale Railway | Scruton | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Bedale Line and station open |
North Eastern Railway York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway |
Scruton Line and station closed | ||
| Proposed Heritage railways |
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| Bedale Line and station open |
Wensleydale Railway | Scruton Line and station closed | ||
References
- ↑ Flanagan, Emily (23 November 2014). "New platform resurrects rail link between Northallerton and Dales". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ Willis, Joe (31 October 2014). "Works starts on new rail platform to link Northallerton to Dales". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ Burgess, Neil (2011). The lost railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 9781840335552. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ "Passengers make a grand comeback". Darlington and Stockton Times. 10 July 2003. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ Shannon, Paul (December 2013). "On Government Business". Railways Illustrated. No. 130. p. 83.