Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Riding of Yorkshire

146 miles of disused railway
72 closed stations
21 stations open today
24 named lost lines

East Riding of Yorkshire has 146 miles of disused railway and 72 closed stations, against 21 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.4 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Hull & Withernsea, with 17 miles of its route inside East Riding of Yorkshire.

See East Riding of Yorkshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 146 miles of lost railway in East Riding of Yorkshire break down as 113 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 24 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 8.9 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in East Riding of Yorkshire

24 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Riding of Yorkshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Hull & Withernsea	17
Hull & Barnsley	16
York to Market Weighton Line	13
Hornsea Branch	13
Market Weighton and Driffield Line	12
Hull and Barnsley Railway	9.0
Howdenshire Rail Trail	8.0
Hudson Way	7.2
Axholme Joint Line	4.2
Market Weighton and Beverley	3.4
Drypool Victoria Docks Branch	3.2
Gowdall and Braithwell Line	2.9
Goole and Selby Railway	2.5
Fockerby Branch	2.3
Malton and Driffield	2.3
Selby and Market Weighton Line	1.7
Cottingham Branch	1.6
Goole and Selby Extension Line	1.6
Drewton Tunnel	1.2
Springhead Yard	1.0
Withernsea Branch	0.7
Goole Oakhill Junction to Rawcliffe Bridge Junction	0.7
Hull Beverley Road Junction to Cannon Street Line	0.6
Hull Stoneferry Goods Branch	0.6

Closed railway stations in East Riding of Yorkshire

All 72 closed and former stations in East Riding of Yorkshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in East Riding of Yorkshire

21 stations in East Riding of Yorkshire still have a train service. The busiest are Hull Paragon Interchange (2.9 million a year), Beverley (754,186 a year), Brough (551,506 a year), Bridlington (546,078 a year) and Goole (324,606 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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