|
The Leeds-Northallerton railway is a partly disused railway line between West and North Yorkshire, in northern England. ==History== The line was opened by the Leeds Northern Railway, in the 1850s. The Leeds and Thirsk Railway via Starbeck opened on 9 July 1848. In 1852 as the Leeds Northern Railway the extension to Northallerton and Stockton opened. The line then became part of the North Eastern Railway in the 1854 amalgamation. All three stations at Leeds (Central, Wellington and New) were used at various times. The section between and is still extant, but its trains now serve a former branch line to instead of continuing through to . The line north of Harrogate was closed a few years after the publication of Richard Beeching's ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' report. The route was closed to passenger traffic on 6 March 1967, but a limited number of freight trains used the line to Ripon until 1969. It was supposed that closing this stretch of line would have little impact, since passengers travelling north could join the East Coast Main Line at York. The stretch was temporarily re-opened as an emergency diversionary route during the Thirsk rail crash. The closure of the northern section of the line meant an end to over 100 years of railway service to the city of Ripon. 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「Leeds-Northallerton Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|