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Grassington & Threshfield railway station (or Threshfield station) was a railway station that served the villages of Grassington and Threshfield, in North Yorkshire, England.〔Butt, R.V.J. (1995). ''The Directory of Railway Stations'', Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 108.〕〔(Grassington & Threshfield Station at Subterranea Britannica )〕 == History == The station was built in the early part of 1902 by the Yorkshire Dales Railway for the Midland Railway. The line diverged from Embsay Junction, up through the Dales, with a stopping station at Rylstone, past the then 'Swinden Lime Works' - today known as Swinden Quarry, and then a further to Threshfield Station. The line was built to provide better links for local villages to the nearby town of Skipton. There were other proposals to continue the line further up the Dales. It would continue north to Kettlewell and thence to Leyburn and would join with the station at Hawes on the Wensleydale Railway. The station had two platforms with run-round loops for each platform, a goods shed with its own siding and a cattle dock with its own siding. A single track route went off over towards Skierthorns Quarry but only went as far as the rear of a set of terraced houses known as Woodlands Terrace. Here the stone was brought down from the quarry by a means of a tramway. It then was brought to Woodlands Terrace where it was unloaded and transferred onto the stone trains. Regular passenger services from the station only lasted 28 years, as the LMS withdrew them (on grounds of low usage) on 22 September 1930. Excursion traffic continued for more than 30 years thereafter though, as did general goods and stone traffic from the nearby quarry. The ending of the latter in the early sixties eventually led to the closure of the station and northern end of the branch to all traffic on 11 August 1969. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grassington & Threshfield railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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