Driffield – Selby railway line

Driffield-Selby
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Scarborough Driffield after Hull after Malton Southburn Bainton Middleton-on-the-Wolds Enthorpe to Beverley Market Weighton to York Everingham Spars Foggathorpe High field Bubwith River Derwent Menthorpe Gate to York Cliffe Common after Hull to Edinburgh River Ouse Selby to Leeds / London / York

The railway line Driffield Selby was a railway line that ran from Driffield in the northern English county of East Riding of Yorkshire via Market Weighton to Selby in North Yorkshire . It was a link between the East Coast Main Line in the west and the Yorkshire Coast Line in the east.

history

The first section from Selby to Market Weighton opened in 1848. The second section to Driffield followed in 1890. Market Weighton station has since been a junction with the York – Beverley railway line . Passenger traffic on the line was discontinued on September 20, 1954 as part of savings measures by British Railways ; With the end of freight traffic in 1964, the railway line was completely shut down.

literature

• Butt, RVJ: The Directory Of Railway Stations . Patrick Stephens Limited, 1995, ISBN 1-85260-508-1 .
• Bairstow, Martin: Railways In East Yorkshire . Martin Bairstow, 1990, ISBN 1-871944-03-1 .

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