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Northallerton railway station serves the town of Northallerton in North Yorkshire, England. The station lies on the East Coast Main Line north of York. It is currently managed by First TransPennine Express and also served by Grand Central and Virgin Trains East Coast. A long-term aim of the Wensleydale Railway is to run trains into the station from Redmire and eventually Garsdale on the Settle-Carlisle Railway.〔(Wensleydale Railway Association - History & Heritage ) Accessed 29 August 2008〕 From 22 November 2014 the Wensleydale Railway opened a new temporary station at Northallerton West railway station.〔(Works_starts_on_new_rail_platform )''Northern Echo''/〕 The station is very popular with rail enthusiasts due to its location on one of the fastest parts of the East Coast Main Line. Trains operated by Virgin Trains East Coast and CrossCountry pass the station at speeds up to 125 mph. ==History== The station was opened by the Great North of England Railway on 30 March 1841. Eleven years later the Leeds Northern Railway completed its line from Leeds to Stockton through the town, although this did not initially connect with the main line. Instead trains called at nearby ''Northallerton Town'' station a short distance away, near the point where it passed beneath the line towards Darlington. By 1854 the GNoE and the LN had both become part of the North Eastern Railway which soon began running through trains on the LN route via Thirsk. These then rejoined the line towards Eaglescliffe by means of a new link from the main line at High Junction that was opened in 1856. The original LN route southwards towards Melmerby was then operated as a branch line until 1901, when the NER connected it to the main line via another new junction at the southern end of the station and started using it as the primary route from West Yorkshire to Teesside once more. Meanwhile, the Wensleydale branch line to , Leyburn and had been opened in stages between 1848 and 1878. It joined the main line immediately north of the station and its trains used a bay at the northern end of the northbound island platform. Passenger trains on the branch were withdrawn from 26 April 1954,〔Body, p. 136〕 although it remains open for occasional M.o.D trains to and heritage trains operated by the Wensleydale Railway. There is however currently no direct route to the branch from the station as its junction faces north and trains must access it by means of a reversing siding off the northbound main line. The defunct south to west curve will need to be reinstated and a new platform constructed before Wensleydale trains can run to and from the station once again (the link to and from Leeming Bar was made by bus until late 2014, though a new temporary terminus has now been constructed approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) away - see above). Services were withdrawn on the line towards Ripon on 6 March 1967,〔 after the route was earmarked for closure in the Beeching Report. The line north-eastwards towards had already lost its local passenger services by this time, but it was retained for freight traffic to and from Teesside and occasional longer distance passenger trains. It now carries a regular service to and from Middlesbrough. 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「Northallerton railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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