Disused railway lines and closed stations in North Yorkshire

427 miles of disused railway
203 closed stations
59 stations open today
82 named lost lines

North Yorkshire has 427 miles of disused railway and 203 closed stations, against 59 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 Leeds-Northallerton Railway, with 19 miles of its route inside North Yorkshire.

See North 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 427 miles of lost railway in North Yorkshire break down as 369 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 43 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 14 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.6 miles dismantled. 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 North Yorkshire

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

Line	Miles in county
Leeds-Northallerton Railway	19
Scarborough to Whitby Prospect Hill Junction	19
Helmsley Branch	17
Pickering to Seamer Line	16
Derwent Valley Line	14
Boroughbridge Branch	13
Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway	12
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Line	12
Thirsk to Malton Line	12
Redmire Branch	12
Eryholme-Richmond Branch Line	9.8
Nidd Valley Branch	8.8
Masham Branch	7.5
Hull and Barnsley Railway	7.3
Ingleton Branch	6.8
Church Fenton to Harrogate Line	6.7
Rillington Junction to Grosmont Junction	6.6
Farndale Railway	6.0
Guisborough to Brotton Line	5.8
Malton to Driffield Line	5.8
Nidd Valley Light Railway	5.8
Goole and Selby Railway	5.5
Forcett Railway	5.2
Cleveland Extension Mineral Railway	4.7
Catterick Military Railway	4.5
Longlands, Eaglescliffe and Newcastle Line	4.5
Cawood, Wistow and Selby Light Railway	4.3
Colsterdale Waterworks Light Railway	4.3
Melmerby and Thirsk Line	4.3
Normanby Line	4.2
Guisborough Branch	4.1
Selby and Market Weighton Line	3.9
York to Market Weighton Line	3.9
Hawes and Garsdale Line	3.5
Dam Construction Tramway	2.9
Grinkle Mine Tramway	2.7
Nidderdale Greenway	2.7
York and North Midland Railway	2.7
Ingleton Granite Quarries	2.7
Easingwold Line	2.4

And 42 shorter stretches: Barlow Tip Branch, Swainby Branch, The Cinder Track, Cleveland Steelworks Branch, Filey Holiday Camp Branch, North Eastern Railway - Pateley Bridge Branch, Hull & Barnsley, Wensleydale Railway, Ampleforth College Tramway, The Grassington Branch (Skipton - Grassingon), Kiltonthorpe Mines Branch, Derwent Valley & Foss Islands Track, Lingdale Branch, Malton and Driffield, Priestcroft Branch, Skipton to Ilkley Branch, Malton & Driffield Railway, Tapton Junction (Chesterfield) to Colne, Belmont Mines Branch, Burdale Tunnel, Foss Islands Cycle Route, Redcar, Ingleby Incline, Starbeck Greenway, Warren Moor Ironstone Mine, Old Railway Walk, Rosedale Branch, Chaloner Branch, Farndale Iron Mine Branch, Rosedale Incline, Eston Branch, Grosmont Old Branch, Gowdall and Braithwell Line, Old Quarry incline, Prospect Tunnel, Wetherby Railway Path, Grangetown Shell Depot, Raskelf Curve, Sandsend Road, Viaduct Walk, Merrybent Branch and Saltburn and Skinningrove Branch.

Closed railway stations in North Yorkshire

All 203 closed and former stations in North 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 North Yorkshire

59 stations in North Yorkshire still have a train service. The busiest are York (10.5 million a year), Harrogate (1.9 million a year), Middlesbrough (1.5 million a year), Skipton (1.3 million a year) and Scarborough (1.0 million 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

West Yorkshire, County Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cumbria 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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