York

Location type

Major station

Name and dates

York

Station code: YRK National Rail
Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the York Station (North Eastern Railway).


Chronology Dates

  /  /1841Great North of England Railway
Line opened from York to Darlington. The Darlington to Newcastle powers are transferred to the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway.
05/10/1841Great North of England Railway
Powers from Darlington to Gateshead relinquished to Robert Davies, James Richardson and John Hotham of York acting on behalf of the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway.
07/07/1845York and Scarborough Line (York and North Midland Railway)
Opened from York to Scarborough.
  /  /1850Great Northern Railway
Doncaster to York via Askern (immediately north-west of Doncaster on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) opened. GNR uses L&Y line from 4 miles north of Doncaster to Knottingley.
07/08/1850Great Northern Railway
Opened throughout. Route: London Maiden Lane (temporary terminus) to Boston to Lincoln (not via Peterborough to Retford) to Knottingley on North Midland Railway and not York itself.
16/03/1951Great Northern Railway
14 are killed when a York to London King's Cross express derails at Doncaster on badly a maintained crossover.
23/01/1955Lichfield to Sutton Coldfield Line (London and North Western Railway)
17 are killed when a York to Bristol express does not slow to 30mph, but enters a curve at Sutton Coldfield at 60mph.
28/02/2001Selby to Askern Junction Line (North Eastern Railway)
Great North Eastern Railway (GNER) York to London train crashes into a Landrover and trailer carrying a car (which had fallen from the M62), then de-rails and hits a Freightliner train at Great Heck near Selby.
31/03/2004English, Welsh and Scottish Railway
Withdraws Class 56s with a final Bristol to York railtour.

News items

11/12/2023Castleford to York direct trains to run on route again after 50 years [BBC News]
22/11/2023Settle-Carlisle line: Plans to increase number of steam train specials [News and Star]
09/10/2023Extra carriage added to Santa Special Carlisle to York train [News and Star]
01/07/2023Translink issues update as York Street train station transformation continues [Belfast Live]
06/01/2023Siemens wins contracts to enable solar power use for UK rail [Railway Technology]
19/12/2022Rail warning for those travelling by train this Christmas [Network Rail]
11/10/2022Restored: half-way sign by side of railway near York [York Press]
25/08/2022Edinburgh to Fife ferries 'could be like New York service' as plans back on agenda [Edinburgh Live]
25/08/2022Electrification of the railway from York to Leeds could lead to a public inquiry over level crossing closures [YorkMix]
20/07/2022Full electrification in scope as Transpennine Route Upgrade makes progress [Railway Gazette]