Pateley Bridge railway station

Pateley Bridge
The station buildings in 2015
Location
Place Pateley Bridge
Area North Yorkshire
Coordinates 54°05′08″N 1°45′35″W / 54.0855°N 1.7596°W / 54.0855; -1.7596Coordinates: 54°05′08″N 1°45′35″W / 54.0855°N 1.7596°W / 54.0855; -1.7596
Grid reference SE158655
Operations
Original company North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 1
History
1 May 1862 Opened[1]
2 April 1951 Closed to passenger traffic[1]
31 October 1964 Closed to all traffic[2]
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Pateley Bridge railway station is a disused railway station in North Yorkshire, England.

The station was the terminating station on the North Eastern Railway (NER) Nidd Valley branch line. The station opened in 1862 and had a single platform; a small goods yard and a small locomotive depot, comprising a shed and a railway turntable.

In 1907 a connection was opened from the station, across the main street in Pateley Bridge to link the Bradford Corporation owned Nidd Valley Light Railway (NVLR) with the NER branch line. This connection was only used by goods traffic as the NVLR opened its own passenger station a few hundred metres away and passengers had to walk between the two stations.[3][4]

All traffic on the NVLR ceased in 1936 and the Nidd Valley branch went into a decline which led to the withdrawal of passenger services in 1951 and the closure of the line and the station to all traffic in 1964.[2]

The main station building at Pateley Bridge survived and is now in private use.


Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Dacre
Line & station closed		   North Eastern Railway
Nidd Valley Railway		   Terminus

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Quick (2009), p. 306.
  2. 1 2 Croft (1972), p. 25.
  3. ↑ Hoole (1978), p. 36.
  4. ↑ Thompson & Groundwater (1991), p. 57.
Sources
  • Croft, David J. (1972). The Nidd Valley Railway. Oakwood Press. ISBN 978 0853613 37 4.
  • Hoole, Ken (1978). North Eastern branch lines since 1925. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978 0711008 29 8.
  • Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
  • Thompson, Alan R.; Groundwater, Ken (1991). North Yorkshire (Part 1): York and Selby, the Dales and Skipton to Garsdale. British railways past and present. No 11. Silver Link Publishing. ISBN 978 0947971 71 7.
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