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Leeds Northern Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east along the River Nidd at Knaresborough with a Northern DMU on the viaduct. The unique Knaresborough signal box [see image 23671] can be seen on the right of the picture. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/43000/43910.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![The RCTS <I>'Tyne - Solway Rail Tour'</I> hauled by A1 Pacific no 60131 <I>Osprey</I> takes water at Stockton on 21 March 1965 during a break in its journey from Leeds City to Carlisle via Newcastle. <br><br>[K A Gray /03/1965]](/images/31000/31261.jpg "Stockton")
![A1 Pacific no 60131 <I>Osprey</I> of Copley Hill shed photographed at Stockton in March 1965 with the 6 coaches of the RCTS Tyne-Solway Rail Tour from Leeds City bound for Carlisle via Newcastle and returning to Leeds via the S&C. [The overall roof at Stockton station was removed in 1979.]<br><br>[K A Gray 21/03/1965]](/images/24000/24365.jpg "Stockton")
![The RCTS <i>Tyne-Solway Rail Tour</i> from Leeds City stands at Stockton in March 1965 as A1 Pacific no 60131 <I>Osprey</I> takes on water. The railtour ran from Leeds City to Carlisle via Newcastle, returning via the Settle & Carlisle line.<br><br>[K A Gray 21/03/1965]](/images/30000/30409.jpg "Stockton")
![Class K1 no 62005 stands at Stockton with the SLS <I>Three Dales Railtour</I> on 20 May 1967.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/05/1967]](/images/26000/26891.jpg "Stockton")
![K1 no 62005 takes on water at Stockton during a stop with the SLS <I>Three Dales Railtour</I> on 20 May 1967. [See image 39894]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 20/05/1967]](/images/27000/27210.jpg "Stockton")
![Brush Type 4 no D1790 passes through Stockton station on Friday 2nd October 1970 with the 16.35 block oil train from Port Clarence to Long Eaton.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/10/1970]](/images/32000/32415.jpg "Stockton")
![Class 37 No. 6755 brings a colliery trip working south through Stockton station, heading towards Tees Yard, late in the afternoon of 2nd October 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/10/1970]](/images/33000/33919.jpg "Stockton")
![Class 25 No. 5163 approaches Stockton station from the south on 2 October 1970 with a motley collection of long and short wheelbase four wheelers forming northbound trip working 9P86.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/10/1970]](/images/34000/34244.jpg "Stockton")
![Knaresborough Viaduct in North Yorkshire, seen with a DMU crossing in 1979. The 1851 structure, with a total span of 338 feet, carries rail traffic 90 feet above the Nidd Gorge on the line between York and Leeds via Harrogate. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1979]](/images/17000/17759.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![A York - Leeds DMU arrives at Knaresborough on 15 May 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 15/05/1990]](/images/41000/41854.jpg "Knaresborough")
![A DMU stands at Stockton station on 16 May 1990. The overall roof was removed and the station 'rationalised' here in 1979 [see image 27210].<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/05/1990]](/images/39000/39894.jpg "Stockton")
![A class 31 hauled freight runs south through Stockton on Tees on 16 May 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/05/1990]](/images/40000/40251.jpg "Stockton")
![Approach to Stockton station in May 1990. The former station building has since been converted to retirement housing and is now known as Hackworth Court.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 16/05/1990]](/images/41000/41399.jpg "Stockton")
![Eaglescliffe looking north. The now abandoned Stockton and Darlington Railway alignment was further east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/02/2004]](/images/22000/22423.jpg "Eaglescliffe")
![Pickhill Station looking north towards Newby Wiske and Northallerton in May 2006. The level crossing used to be in the foreground.<br><br>[Clive Barlow 25/05/2006]](/images/9000/9728.jpg "Pickhill")
![Sinderby Station looking north towards Pickhill and Northallerton.The station is adjacent to the A1.<br><br>[Clive Barlow 25/05/2006]](/images/9000/9729.jpg "Sinderby")
![Sinderby Station looking north towards Pickhill and Northallerton.The station is adjacent to the A1.<br><br>[Clive Barlow 25/05/2006]](/images/9000/9730.jpg "Sinderby")
![Sinderby Station forecourt.The station is adjacent to the A1.<br><br>[Clive Barlow 25/05/2006]](/images/9000/9731.jpg "Sinderby")
![Were there any other semi-detached signal boxes (barring those on station platforms) in the UK? - Knaresborough box seen from the east side of the Kirkgate level-crossing in November 2006.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/2006]](/images/40000/40850.jpg "Knaresborough")
![No longer recognisable as a former railway station is Picton (closed 1960), on the Leeds Northern direct route between the ECML at Northallerton and Teesside. This was once the junction for the route east via Battersby to Whitby. View southeast on 3 October 2008, with the name on the <I>John Smiths</I> hostelry in the background continuing to provide the historical link. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/10/2008]](/images/21000/21417.jpg "Picton")
![A candidate for the Top 10 surviving unusual signal boxes must be Knaresborough, stone built on the side of another building as shown. The white brickwork in the foreground is the subway entrance and there is a controlled pedestrian level crossing too. 144020 has just crossed over after arriving from Leeds and is setting back into the station ahead of the return journey.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/10/2008]](/images/21000/21011.jpg "Knaresborough")
![Knaresborough station looking towards Harrogate as 3-car 144020 waits to depart for Leeds. Beyond the train the crossover on the Nidd viaduct can be seen. A fireplace business occupies most of the buildings on the York platform, and the station is in excellent condition. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/10/2008]](/images/21000/21013.jpg "Knaresborough")
![A little <I>TLC</I> at Knaresborough goes a long way with this display of flowers in platform barrows. The station sits in a cutting and this view was taken from the approach road looking down onto the York platform. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/10/2008]](/images/21000/21060.jpg "Knaresborough")
![View from the foot crossing at Knaresborough in the York direction through the station towards the tunnel under the town. 144020 has arrived from Leeds and is now waiting to return there via Harrogate. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 11/10/2008]](/images/21000/21061.jpg "Knaresborough")
![The Waterside at Knaresborough looking north west on 15 April 2009 with the railway viaduct over the River Nidd forming the backdrop. The line from Leeds and Harrogate comes in from the left with Knaresborough station off to the right just beyond the viaduct. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/04/2009]](/images/23000/23444.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![Privately preserved (?) class 47 no 47540 (ex D1723) on the site of the former Sinderby station (now occupied by an agricultural equipment company) in North Yorkshire on 24 April 2009. The locomotive, which once carried the name <I>The Institution of Civil Engineers</I>, was withdrawn from Old Oak Common in May 1998. [Addendum: On 22 May 2009, four weeks after this photograph, the locomotive was removed on a low-loader bound for the Wensleydale Railway at Leeming Bar.] [Finale: The stripped out shell was moved from the Wensleydale Railway to Thompsons scrap yard in Stockton-on-Tees during March 2016 and cut up in early April]. (With thanks to David Pesterfield)<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/23000/23755.jpg "Sinderby")
![The remains of Sinderby station (1852), North Yorkshire, on the former Northallerton - Leeds via Harrogate line, photographed on 24 April 2009 looking north. The station closed to passengers in 1962, with the line itself closing completely 5 years later. The land in the immediate vicinity of the old station is now occupied by an agricultural equipment supplier. The A1 road runs past the site directly behind the camera. Note the preserved class 47 standing in the left background. [See image 23755] <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/23000/23756.jpg "Sinderby")
![The terminated 11.59 ex-Leeds stands at Knaresborough station on 24 April 2009. The DMU will shortly run forward onto Knaresborough Viaduct (behind camera) before crossing over to platform 1 where it will form the 13.05 service back to Leeds. [See image 23671]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/37000/37972.jpg "Knaresborough")
![Class 47 no 47540 (formerly <I>The Institution of Civil Engineers</I>) standing in a field alongside the A1 at Sinderby, North Yorkshire, in the spring of 2009. For details [see image 23755]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2009]](/images/58000/58924.jpg "Sinderby")
![The former station at Welbury on the old Leeds Northern route that now provides the direct link from the ECML at Northallerton to Teesside. The station, which closed to passengers in 1954, is seen here on 27 June 2011 looking south west towards Northallerton.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2011]](/images/34000/34871.jpg "Welbury")
![The late running 15.50 ex Middlesbrough TransPennine Express service to Manchester Airport rushes past Low Gates signalbox on 14 January as it approaches Northallerton Station. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 14/01/2012]](/images/37000/37288.jpg "Northallerton")
![What is believed to be the Leeds Northern Railway's short lived Northallerton Town Station (1852-1856). Photograph taken on 12 February 2012 on the west side of Northallerton's Low Gates level crossing. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37878.jpg "Northallerton Town")
![Low Gates level crossing and signal box at Northallerton in February 2012. View north west along the A167 over the Yarm and Eaglescliffe line.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 12/02/2012]](/images/37000/37926.jpg "Northallerton East Junction")
![Grand Central Trains 11.23 Kings Cross - Sunderland HST service photographed on the approach to Low Gates level crossing on 9 July 2012, shortly after restarting from Northallerton station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/39000/39586.jpg "Northallerton")
![Shortly after leaving Northallerton station on 9 July, the 11.35 Manchester Airport - Middlesbrough has turned north east onto the former Leeds Northern route heading for Teesside. The train is about to run over Low Gates level crossing on the busy A167, with the town's High Street off to the left. The kitchen showroom on the up side was once Northallerton Town station, opened by the Leeds Northern Railway in June 1852 and closed less than 4 years later on 1 January 1856. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/39000/39796.jpg "Northallerton Town")
![The 13.50 Middlesbrough - Manchester Airport First TransPennine service about to run over Low Gates level crossing on the approach to Northallerton station on 9 July 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/40000/40007.jpg "Northallerton")
![What was once Northallerton Town station, opened by the Leeds Northern Railway in June 1852 and closed less than 4 years later on 1 January 1856. Low Gates level crossing and signal box on the Northallerton - Teesside line can be seen on the north side of the A167 in the background, with the town's High Street off to the right. The refurbished and extended building, seen here in July 2012, is now a kitchen showroom. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2012]](/images/40000/40834.jpg "Northallerton Town")
![185136 forming the 15.50 Middlesbrough to Manchester Victoria via the Calder Valley line on 27 October, during the 10-day engineering blockade at Stalybridge. The train is approaching Northallerton station past engineers sidings just west of Low Gates level crossing and the former Northallerton Town station. Note the yellow painted ends to the siding rails. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 27/10/2012]](/images/41000/41017.jpg "Northallerton")
![Track plant stabled in the engineers siding between Low Gates level Crossing and Northallerton Station on 10 March seen looking towards the ECML. [See image 41017]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 10/03/2013]](/images/42000/42519.jpg "Northallerton")
![Performing the hourly ritual of reversing onto the viaduct at Knaresborough and then setting back into the station is a Northern 153/155 Sprinter combination. Every other train from Leeds terminates here with the alternates continuing to York. The quirky signalbox is on the right overlooking the bridge.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/04/2013]](/images/42000/42786.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![A fully accessible footbridge at Stockton Station helps fill the void left by the loss of the station's overall roof in 1979. [See image 26891]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46419.jpg "Stockton")
![Looking over the rooftops of Knaresborough on 19 March as the 16.45 arrival from Leeds runs out onto the viaduct before crossing over to platform 1 where it will form the 17.05 return service. [See image 23671]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46763.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![The strange house at the top of Water Bag Bank. Knaresborough signal box in March 2014. A gated level crossing through to Kirkgate is located just off picture to the left.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46771.jpg "Knaresborough")
![The 17.29 ex-York about to restart from Knaresborough on 19 March and continue on its journey to Leeds.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46851.jpg "Knaresborough")
![<I>'The Left Luggage Office'</I> and <I>'The Ticket Office'</I> at Knaresborough station, photographed on 19 March 2014. Both works are by popular local artist Peter Kearney.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46917.jpg "Knaresborough")
![The 14.15 for York approaches Knaresborough on 13 November 2014, complete with moustache for 'Movember'. The last two vehicles are Class 142 Pacers, or 'nodding donkeys'. Being in one of these was akin to riding in a mineral wagon at Waterside.<br><br>[Colin Miller 13/11/2014]](/images/49000/49457.jpg "Knaresborough Viaduct")
![Signs at the end of the York bound platform at Knaresborough station in November 2014. [Ref query 6557]<br><br>[Colin Miller 13/11/2015]](/images/50000/50057.jpg "Knaresborough")
![The most northerly section, across the River Tees, of the 650m Yarm Viaduct is built in stone compared to brick for the rest of the structure. A large plaque is sited above the centre pier detailing the names of the design engineers, the superintendent of works, and the contractors responsible for the building the structure. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 19/11/2017]](/images/61000/61961.jpg "Yarm on Tees")
![View of GBRf 66738, which has just passed Low Gates level crossing with a rake of covered former coal, now biomass, wagons, heading south west towards the southbound low level bypass line that runs under the ECML twice before joining the main line south of the main station. The former Northallerton Town station is by the third wagon. Blackberry phone camera view from the cafe in Barkers Home Furnishing store. <br><br>[David Pesterfield 03/12/2017]](/images/62000/62250.jpg "Northallerton Town")
![An alternate view, looking east from Finkills Way, of the former Northallerton Town Station, seen across a still undeveloped area of land just off Yafforth Road in December 2017.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 03/12/2017]](/images/62000/62345.jpg "Northallerton Town")
