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Hellifield railway station serves the village of Hellifield in North Yorkshire, England. The station is north-west of Leeds on the Leeds to Morecambe Line towards Carlisle and Morecambe. The Ribble Valley Line from Blackburn also joins the Leeds to Morecambe Line at Hellifield which is managed by Northern Rail, who provide all passenger train services. It is unstaffed, although the buildings are in private use and open to the public at certain times. ==History== The first Hellifield railway station was opened by the "Little" North Western Railway in 1849. It was a modest structure, similar to those at Gargrave and Long Preston and sited to the south of the present one. A much larger replacement (the current station) was built by the Midland Railway and opened on 1 June 1880, immediately to the north of the junction of the line from and the newly completed Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway route from via . It soon became a busy junction (as it was now located on the Midland Railway's main line from London to Scotland), with trains going to: *Clitheroe * Skipton *Leeds *Blackburn * Settle * Carlisle * Manchester * Morecambe It was also the location of a busy locomotive depot and a large goods yard. The line from Blackburn had its local passenger service withdrawn on 10 September 1962, but it remains open for goods traffic and periodic diversions when the West Coast main line is closed north of for engineering work. The adjacent locomotive shed closed the following year and local trains from the station to Carlisle ended in May 1970, although it continued to be served by expresses to and from Glasgow until 1975. Thereafter it was downgraded to unstaffed halt status and served only by stopping trains between Leeds and Morecambe. In April 1977 the main station building was designated as a Grade II listed building. By the late 1980s the main buildings and canopies were in very poor condition and under threat of demolition, but following a £500,000 cash injection from British Rail in conjunction with English Heritage and the Railway Heritage Trust, they were refurbished and returned to private commercial use. Trains to and from Carlisle also started calling again in May 1995 to further encourage use of the station and its newly restored amenities. Between 2005 and 2008, the station was used as the operating base for Kingfisher Railtours' ''Dalesman'' steam-hauled charter trains over the Settle-Carlisle Line.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kingfisher Railtours – The Dalesman )〕 Facilities on offer to the travelling public at the station include the ''Long Drag'' cafe & gift shop and a heritage room used to exhibit items and photographs connected to the Settle-Carlisle route. The station is also still used by special trains and steam-hauled railway tours as a water stop and traction changeover point. It has also undergone further structural refurbishment in the summer of 2013, with Network Rail carrying out £500,000 of work on the Grade II listed buildings to repair/replace the glazing and repaint the canopies. The last remaining signal box at the station (there were three until 1966) is one of only two manual boxes left in operation between Leeds and (the other being at Settle Junction). It acts as the 'fringe' box to the Leeds workstation of York IECC in the Skipton direction, as well as controlling the junction and a pair of goods loops that are used to help regulate the increasingly heavy levels of freight traffic on the Carlisle, Leeds and Blackburn lines. 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「Hellifield railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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