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Wetherby railway station was built on the North Eastern Railway's Cross Gates to Wetherby Line on Linton Road. It replaced an earlier station on York Road which had opened on 1 May 1876.〔 〕 After the construction of a double track line to allow through trains from Leeds to Harrogate via Wetherby,〔 York Road station closed and Wetherby's new station opened in 1902. It closed to passenger traffic on 6 January 1964 and to goods on 4 April 1966 under the Beeching axe. ==Background== Wetherby declined as a coaching town after the opening of York Road station on the Harrogate to Church Fenton Line by the York and North Midland Railway on 10 August 1847. Economic damage was caused by the railway as no rail link was made between Wetherby and the major trading and commercial centre, Leeds. A railway line to Leeds became one of the first campaigns of the ''Wetherby News''. Two Wetherby businessmen; Henry Crossley and James Coates exerted pressures on the railway companies. The first proposal for a railway between Wetherby and Leeds was put forward in 1863 by the London and North Western Railway from its terminus in Leeds to Wetherby, the Vale of York to Hartlepool. The plan never came to fruition. It forced the North Eastern Railway Company to propose a railway line to prevent its rival encroaching into its heartland. In 1866 NER was given powers to build a line between Leeds and Wetherby although the route was undecided. Crossley and Coates again campaigned to prevent the line being cancelled. The branch between Wetherby (York Road) and opened on 1 May 1876 as a single-track line linking the Leeds to Selby and Harrogate to Church Fenton lines. The junction at Wetherby only faced towards which meant that the Cross Gates branch was little used for Harrogate services. Improvements were made between 1897 and 1902 which saw the line doubled and a south-to-west curve installed to form a triangular junction facing Wetherby. Its opening led to residential development in the town. A new station to replace York Road station was opened at Linton Road near Wetherby South Junction at the southern apex of the new junction on 1 July 1902. The works were part of a plan to open the Leeds-Wetherby-Harrogate-Northallerton route for express services. 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「Wetherby (Linton Road) railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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