Date: 25/08/2017

A HERITAGE railway in deep financial trouble has caused a split with supporters over plans to sell off their 'golden asset' which would potentially derail dreams of restoring the line to its former glory. Wensleydale Railway Board is in talks to sell off Aysgarth Station for £400,000 to a private supporter who wants to use it for a 'hobby railway'. Half the cash would be used to pay off a mortgage with the rest ploughed into keeping the railway going.

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Station sale plans spark fears for the future of Wensleydale Railway

Darlington and Stockton Times

A HERITAGE railway in deep financial trouble has caused a split with supporters over plans to sell off their golden asset “ which would

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First station after Redmire on the lifted section of the Wensleydale line is Aysgarth, near to the famous waterfalls. Closed to passengers in 1954, and freight ten years later, the station is very much intact but private property. The Wensleydale Railway^s long term ambition is to extend through here to Garsdale.
Location: Aysgarth
Company: Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
29/12/2008 Mark Bartlett

View east along the trackbed towards the former Aysgarth station and the route through Wensleydale to Northallerton on 3 November 2004. The railway bridge that once spanned Church Bank road, between the camera and the wooden fence, is long gone.
Location: Aysgarth
Company: Hawes Branch (North Eastern Railway)
03/11/2004 John Furnevel