Place Crakehall Grid reference SE239892 19 May 1856 Opened Platforms in use 1 | Area Hambleton Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway Original company Bedale | |
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Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway | ||
Crakehall railway station was a railway station that served the village of Crakehall, North Yorkshire, England.
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History
Opened by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by British Railways.
The site today
Track still passes through the station site, providing rail access for the Wensleydale Railway which operates west from Leeming Bar.
References
Crakehall railway station Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA