Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)






Dates

  /10/1878Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Opened for passengers to meet the Hawes Branch (Midland Railway) over which the North Eastern Railway had running powers to Hawes Junction (now Garsdale). Built as a single track line.
  /04/1954Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Closed to passengers.
  /  /1964Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Redmire to Hawes closed.
  /  /1992Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Northallerton (excluded) to Redmire closed to limestone traffic from Redmire. Line mothballed.
  /  /1996Bedale Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Bedale and Leyburn Railway Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Line re-opened to Redmire for military traffic to Catterick Camp.
03/03/2015Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Last military train (for Catterick Camp) runs to Redmire (until 2019).
30/01/2019Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
Military train for Catterick Camp runs to Redmire.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

'Up against the wall...' Remains of the old goods yard crane on display in what is now the visitors car park at Leyburn on the Wensleydale ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011
Passenger entrance to Leyburn station on the Wensleydale Railway, looking north across the car park in the summer of 2011. Adjoining the booking ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011
Remains of the coal drops in the old goods yard at Leyburn, looking east towards Northallerton in June 2011. See image 19458 from 1982. Industrial ...
John Furnevel 27/06/2011
With Leyburn station a few hundred yards behind the camera, this wintery view looks west from the A684 road bridge towards Wensley and Redmire in ...
John McIntyre 07/03/1982
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The former Wensley station seen from the level crossing in November 2004. View west along what is now the Wensleydale Railway's heritage line towards ...
John Furnevel 02/11/2004
'SHUT THAT DOOR... ' Breakfast disturbance at Wensley station in November 2004 as a DMU on the Wensleydale Railway passes through with a ...
John Furnevel 01/11/2004
A view across the track to the closed station at Wensley. ...
John Yellowlees //
The closed station at Wensley. ...
John Yellowlees 29/08/2016
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What would appear to be a former weighbridge building stands in the yard by Redmire station, as seen in May 2015 ...
David Pesterfield 25/05/2015
BR Standard class 4MT 2-6-4T no 80105 at Redmire in August 2009. ...
Colin Alexander /08/2009
Platform view west through Redmire Station on the Wensleydale Railway in May 2015, showing the lengthy run round loop on the left and the loading ...
David Pesterfield 25/05/2015
Looking east along the platform at Redmire Station on the Wensleydale Railway, with the well maintained station building now used by the Scouting ...
David Pesterfield 25/05/2015
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View east along the trackbed towards the former Aysgarth station and the route through Wensleydale to Northallerton on 3 November 2004. The railway ...
John Furnevel 03/11/2004
First station after Redmire on the lifted section of the Wensleydale line is Aysgarth, near to the famous waterfalls. Closed to passengers in 1954, ...
Mark Bartlett 29/12/2008
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Lying just outside the village where the James Heriot TV series was filmed, Askrigg station in Wensleydale, like Aysgarth to its east, was closed in ...
Mark Bartlett 29/12/2008
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The frontage to the former Hawes Station main building, now part of the Dales Countryside Museum, seen on Easter Monday 2014. One ex BR Mk1 carriage ...
David Pesterfield 21/04/2014
67345 on static display at the former Hawes station. ...
John Yellowlees 29/08/2016
The former goods yard at Hawes was forward of the station building on the south side of the line. The restored goods shed is now linked to the station ...
David Pesterfield 21/04/2014
View west along the trackbed of the abandoned section of the Wensleydale line looking towards Garsdale through the road overbridge from Hawes station ...
David Pesterfield 21/04/2014
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