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The station at Thirsk, which opened to the public on 31 March 1841, was originally named Newcastle Junction. [ 3 ] In 1933 Britain's first route-setting power signal box using a switch panel rather than a lever frame opened at Thirsk, to the specification of the LNER's signalling engineers A.F. Bound and A. E. Tattersall, forming the template ...
Thirsk Station. Thirsk railway station is 22.25 miles (36 km) north of York on the East Coast Main Line and situated 1.5 miles (2 km) from the centre of Thirsk, in Carlton Miniott. [citation needed] Bus services for York, Ripon, Northallerton and local villages stop in Thirsk market place. [citation needed] The A61, passes through Thirsk market ...
The station was opened with the line in January 1848 and initially only served freight traffic with passenger trains starting in June of the same year. [1] Passenger trains continued to use the station for seven years until all workings were diverted to serve Thirsk railway station (on the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) leaving only freight trains serving Thirsk Town terminus.
Part of the rationale for the line was a connection to the Thirsk and Malton Railway, ... The line had stations at Settrington, [map 6] North Grimston, [map 7] ...
The Leeds and Thirsk Railway via Starbeck opened on 9 July 1848. In 1852 as the Leeds Northern Railway the extension to Northallerton and Stockton opened. The line then became part of the North Eastern Railway in the 1854 amalgamation. All three stations at Leeds (Central, Wellington and New) were used at various times.
Where dates for a railway station are shown as e.g. (1853–1959/64) these refer to the dates of closure to passengers and freight. Tallington station is open to freight as of 2008. East Coast Main Line
This is a route-map template for the Thirsk and Malton line, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The place where the G & P ran north from the Thirsk and Malton line was listed as Parliamentary Junction, [note 1] [11] but in effect it was two single lines eastwards from Gilling Station which diverged without a junction. This was an economy measure meaning that the NER didn't need to install any points or employ staff to operate them.