List of Yorkshire railways

!width=200|Name of railway

!Date opened

!Date of transfer to other company

!Closure date

!Notes

|1858{{cite web|title=Bradford Wakefield and Leeds Railway|url=http://spellerweb.net/rhindex/UKRH/GreatNorthern/BradWakeLeeds.html|website=Johnspellerswebpages|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1865

|See comments for routes still open

|The railway was renamed the West Yorkshire Railway in 1863{{cite web|title=Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Bradford,_Wakefield_and_Leeds_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=9 December 2015}} and in 1865 was amalgamated into the Great Northern Railway. This section of line is still open providing services between Leeds and Wakefield Westgate on the Leeds branch of the East Coast Main Line.

|1861{{cite web|title=Railways and Waggonways in Cleveland|url=https://sites.google.com/site/waggonways/railways-cleveland|website=Railways and Waggonways in Cleveland|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1865{{cite book|last1=Tomlinson|first1=William Weaver|title=The North Eastern Railway|date=1914|publisher=Andrew Reid|location=Newcastle-Upon-Tyne|page=619|url=https://archive.org/stream/northeasternrail00tomlrich#page/618/mode/2up|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|The railway ran from Normanby to Loftus. Amalgamated into the NER in 1865, most of the railway has been closed, with a short section now serving freight trains into Skinningrove and Boulby mine.

|1902–1909
The line opened in stages between these two dates for mineral traffic{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Alan|title=Lost stations of Yorkshire the West Riding|date=2015|publisher=Silverlink|location=Kettering|isbn=978-185794-438-9|page=118}}

|1922

|See comments for routes still open

|Although operated by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, the Dearne Valley remained independent until 1922 when it and the L & Y were merged into the London & North Western Railway.{{cite book|last1=Marshall|first1=John|title=The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway|date=1970|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbott|isbn=0-7153-4906-6|page=256|oclc=819792244|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/819792244|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1913{{cite web|last1=Darsley|first1=R R|title=The Derwent Valley Light Railway 60 years on|url=http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/51/Derwent.htm|website=Industrial Railway Society|publisher=IRS|access-date=9 December 2015|pages=129–146|date=November 1973}}The southern part of the line from Cliff Common to Wheldrake opened in 1912, but the official opening is given as 19 July 1913.

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|1981{{cite book|last1=Atterbury|first1=Paul|title=Along Lost Lines|date=27 November 2009|publisher=David & Charles|location=Newton Abbott|isbn=978-0715327067|pages=202–205}}Whilst the last train ran in 1981, British Rail used the section at Layerthorpe to stable trains. The light railway order was transferred to the heritage group operating at Murton{{cite web|title=The Derwent Valley Light Railway|url=http://www.lner.info/co/NER/derwent/derwent.php|website=LNER info|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|Independent for all of its existence, the DVLR was never grouped or nationalised. After British Rail closed the Selby to Driffield railway, the line closed in stages{{PastScape|mname=Derwent Valley Light Railway|mnumber=58102|access-date=9 December 2015}} until final complete closure in 1981.

The DVLR exists as a small concern at Murton as part of the Museum of Yorkshire Farming.{{cite web|title=Derwent Valley Light Railway|url=http://www.nelpg.org.uk/index.php?view=venueevents&id=21%3Aderwent-valley-light-railway&option=com_eventlist&Itemid=2|website=NELPG|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|27 July 1891{{cite book|last1=Burgess|first1=Neil|title=The lost railways of Yorkshire's North Riding|date=2011|publisher=Stenlake|isbn=9781840335552|page=4}}

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|27 December 1957

|This line was constructed and built at the behest of local businesses. It was never grouped or amalgamated into British Rail and remained independent for its entire existence. Passenger services ceased on 29 November 1948, with goods finally stopping in December 1957.{{cite web|title=Disused Stations: Easingwold Station|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/easingwold/index.shtml|website=www.disused-stations.org.uk|access-date=31 December 2015}}

|1848{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Alan|title=Lost Stations of Yorkshire the West Riding|date=2015|publisher=Silverlink|location=Kettering|isbn=978-1-85794-438-9|page=39}}

|1852{{cite web|title=East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12357|website=National Archives|publisher=HM Gov|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|Railway built from a spur off the Leeds & Thirsk Railway at Harrogate which extends on through Knaresborough and into York. Absorbed by the York & North Midland Railway in 1852, this line is still open today as the Harrogate to York line.

|1994{{cite web|title=Our Line|url=http://www.elsecarrailway.co.uk/index.php/about-us/our-line|website=Elsecar Heritage Railway|access-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104357/http://www.elsecarrailway.co.uk/index.php/about-us/our-line|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

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|Still open

|Opened in 1994 on the former South Yorkshire Railway Line that was kept open by British Rail to serve Cortonwood Colliery until 1984.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.elsecarrailway.co.uk/index.php/about-us/history|website=Elsecar Heritage Railway|publisher=EHR|access-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222125511/http://www.elsecarrailway.co.uk/index.php/about-us/history|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|1979

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|Still open

|Opened in 1981 along the former Midland Railway line that once ran from Skipton to Ilkley.

|1920s{{cite web|title=Esholt Sewage Works Railway|url=http://www.urbexforums.com/showthread.php/3740-Esholt-Sewage-works-Railway-Remnants(ARCHIVED)|website=URBEX|access-date=11 December 2015}}

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|1977{{cite news|last1=Phillips|first1=Sarah|title=Ian Beesley's best photograph: a sewage foreman captured in tears|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jan/16/ian-beesley-best-photograph|access-date=11 December 2015|work=The Guardian|date=16 January 2013}}

|Standard gauge sewage works railway in Esholt, Bradford. Located in the triangle between the Airedale and Wharfedale lines, its engines were unusual in that they were converted to run on wool grease scoured from the waste water from the Bradford woollen industry.{{cite news|last1=Greenhalf|first1=Jim|title=How railway helped turn muck to brass|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/tahistory/featuresnostalgiapasttimes/10102523.How_railway_helped_turn_muck_to_brass/?ref=arc|access-date=11 December 2015|work=Telegraph & Argus|date=12 December 2012}}

|1850{{PastScape|mname=Great Northern Railway|mnumber=1364309|access-date=11 December 2015}}

|1923{{cite web|title=Great Northern Railway Company Records|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/record?catid=11211&catln=3|website=National Archives|publisher=HM Gov|access-date=11 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|The act approving the Great Northern was passed in 1846.{{cite book|last1=Grinling|first1=Charles|title=The History of the Great Northern Railway 1845 - 1895|url=https://archive.org/details/historygreatnor00gringoog|date=1898|publisher=Methun & Co|location=London|pages=55–56}} Apart from the direct Leeds to Bradford route via Stanningley (and some link lines) all associated branches of the GNR in Yorkshire have been closed.{{cite web|title=Britain's railways 1834 - present Routes & companies|url=http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/routes%20west%20yorkshire.htm|website=Lost railways of West Yorkshire|access-date=11 December 2015|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222104013/http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/routes%20west%20yorkshire.htm|url-status=dead}} The northern end of the ECML from Selby was closed by BR in 1983 when they opened their Selby Diversion line.{{cite web|last1=Catford|first1=Nick|title=Selby Station|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/selby/index.shtml|website=Disused Stations|access-date=11 December 2015}}

|1841

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|Still open

|Its main line opened in 1841 is now the section of line between York and Darlington on the East Coast Main Line. Amalgamated with the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway in 1846.{{cite web|title=Great North of England Railway|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Great_North_of_England_Railway|website=Graces Guide|access-date=8 December 2015}}

|1894{{cite web|title=Railway Line To Yeadon|url=http://www.aireboroughhistoricalsociety.co.uk/memories/1881-railway-line-to-yeadon.aspx|website=www.aireboroughhistoricalsociety.co.uk|access-date=10 January 2016}}

|1923

|1964{{cite web|title=YEADON CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL|url=http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/yeadon%20conservation%20area%20appraisal%20and%20management%20plan%20final.pdf|website=Leeds City Council|access-date=10 January 2016|page=7|date=16 January 2012}}

|Line from Rawdon Junction on the Wharfedale line at Guiseley through to Yeadon. The naming of the junction suggests that Rawdon was the eventual aim. The line was taken over by the Midland Railway in 1893, a year before it opened. It never had a regular timetabled service. The line was amalgamated into the LMS in 1923, BR in 1948 and closed completely in 1964.{{cite book|last1=Neale|first1=Mark|title=Along Familiar Lines|date=2008|isbn=9780952079934|pages=38–42}}

|1885{{cite web|title=Communications|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol1/pp387-397|website=British History Online|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1922

|

|The Hull & Barnsley was absorbed into the NER in 1922. The NER was then grouped into the LNER in 1923 some nine months later. All of the railway is now closed save a small section in the Hull area to the docks and another small re-instated section to allow freight trains to serve Drax Power Station.{{cite web|last1=Dyson|first1=Mark`|title=Springhead Halt|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/springhead_halt/|website=Disused Stations|access-date=9 December 2015|date=15 May 2005}}

|1840{{cite web|last1=Catford|first1=Nick|title=Selby|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/selby/|website=Disused stations|access-date=8 December 2015}}

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|Still open

|Became part of the York & North Midland in 1845. Used by Hull Trains, Virgin Trains East Coast, Northern, First Transpennine and freight operators.

|1847{{cite web|title=LYS|url=http://www.lyrs.org.uk/|website=Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society|access-date=9 December 2015}}

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|See comments for routes still open

|Amalgamated with the London North Western Railway in 1922, before this venture was grouped into the London Midland Scottish in 1923.{{cite web|title=LMS, BR and Beyond|url=http://www.lyrs.org.uk/lms-br-and-beyond|website=The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society|publisher=L & Y RS|access-date=9 December 2015}} Most lines of the former L & Y are still open.Largest portion of closed lines are the branches (eg; Rishworth, Meltham, Holmfirth etc) although most of these were built by other railway companies that became part of the L &Y on the companies merging.

|1855{{cite web|last1=Wilson|first1=John|title=Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/741200|website=Vision of Britain|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1865{{cite web|title=Leeds, Bradford & Halifax Junction Railway|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12540|website=National Archives|publisher=HM Gov|access-date=9 December 2015|ref=Rail 352}}

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|Section between Leeds and Bradford via Bramley still open. All other former L,B&HJR lines now closed.
Merged with Bradford, Wakefield & Leeds Railway to for West Yorkshire Railway in 1863. West Yorkshire Railway amalgamated into the Great Northern Railway in 1865.

|1846{{cite web|last1=Thornhill|first1=John|title='All Change'|url=http://www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk/allchange.html|website=Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society|access-date=8 December 2015|date=1986}}

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|Still open

|Became part of the Midland Railway in 1853. Was the first railway to reach Bradford.{{cite web|title=Bradford 1846 - Present|url=http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Bradford.htm|website=Lost Railways of West Yorkshire|access-date=8 December 2015|archive-date=25 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625050155/http://www.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Bradford.htm|url-status=dead}} Leeds and Bradford Extension was laid in 1848 to extend to Colne via Skipton.{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Alan|title=Lost Stations of Yorkshire The West Riding|date=2015|publisher=Silver Link Publishing|location=Kettering|isbn=978-1-85794-438-9|page=33}}

|1834{{cite web|title=Leeds & Selby Railway|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-452000-429000/page/6|website=Domesday|publisher=BBC|access-date=8 December 2015|date=1986}}

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|Still open

|Was absorbed by the York & North Midland. Line is still in use primarily as the Trans Pennine line between Hull, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool

|1848{{cite web|title=Leeds & Thirsk Railway|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Leeds_and_Thirsk_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=8 December 2015}}

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|Still open (partial)

|Became Leeds Northern Railway in 1852 and then was absorbed into the North Eastern Railway in 1854. Sections from Leeds to Pannal/Harrogate and Northallerton to Stockton still open. All other sections and associated branches have been closed.

|1853{{cite web|title=The Railway|url=http://www.maltonhistory.info/page5/page28/page74/index.html|website=Malton & Driffield|access-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210212013/http://www.maltonhistory.info/page5/page28/page74/index.html|archive-date=10 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|1854

|1958{{cite web|last1=Catford|first1=Nick|title=Settrington|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/settrington/index.shtml|website=Disused Stations|access-date=8 December 2015|date=6 September 2008}}

|Closure casualty before Beeching. Absorbed by the North Eastern Railway in 1854.{{cite web|title=History in detail|url=http://www.yorkshirewoldsrailway.org.uk/history/indetail/|website=The Yorkshire Wolds Railway|access-date=8 December 2015}} Small section at Fimber has been re-opened as the Yorkshire Wolds Railway.{{cite web|title=Contact Us|url=http://www.yorkshirewoldsrailway.org.uk/contact/|website=The Yorkshire Wolds Railway|access-date=8 December 2015}}

|1847{{cite web|title=Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Manchester,_Sheffield_and_Lincolnshire_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|1897{{cite web|title=The Last Main Line|url=http://www.railwayarchive.org.uk/stories/pages.php?enum=LE119&maxp=4&pnum=0|website=Railway Archive|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|Formed by the amalgamation of the Great Grimsby & Sheffield Junction Railway, Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway and the Sheffield & Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Renamed as the Great Central Railway when the London Extension to Marylebone was opened.{{cite web|title=Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12651|website=National Archives|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|1853{{cite news|last1=Lloyd|first1=Chris|title=Plaques to the wall|url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/10563808.Plaques_to_the_wall/|access-date=9 December 2015|work=The Northern Echo|date=22 July 2013}}

|1857{{cite web|last1=Mell|first1=Ken|title=Guisborough|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/g/guisborough/|website=Disused Stations|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|The line was promoted by the Stockton & Darlington Railway and remained independent until 1857 when the S & D took it over (which was itself amalgamated into the NER in 1863). Whilst some of the line was closed by 1964, the western section now forms part of the Esk Valley Line between Middlesbrough & Marton.

|1758{{cite web|title=Middleton Railway|url=http://www.heritage-railways.com/middle.php|website=UK & Ireland Heritage Railways|access-date=8 December 2015}}

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|Still open

|Recognised as the oldest railway still in use.{{cite web|title=Middleton Railway|url=http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/|website=Middleton Railway|access-date=8 December 2015}} The line was never nationalized in 1948 as it was a coal line of the then NCB. It is also notable as being the first standard gauge line to be run by volunteers (1960).{{cite news|title=The History Of Middleton Railway – Still Going Full Steam Ahead|url=http://yorkshirereporter.co.uk/the-history-of-middleton-railway-still-going-full-steam-ahead/|access-date=8 December 2015|work=Yorkshire Reporter|date=1 July 2015}}

|1854{{cite web|title=The head office of the North Eastern Railway|url=http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/20th-century/the-head-office-of-the-north-eastern-railway|website=The History of York|access-date=8 December 2015}}

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|Still open, some closed lines

|The NER was created from the York, Newcastle & Berwick, the York and North Midland and the Leeds Northern Railway. Other lines followed in the intervening years until the NER was absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway in 1923 under the Railways Act 1921.{{cite web|title=NER|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/North_Eastern_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=8 December 2015}}

|1973{{cite web|title=40 years of celebration|url=http://www.nymr.co.uk/2013/04/40-years-of-celebration-on-the-north-yorkshire-moors-railway/|website=North Yorkshire Moors Railway|publisher=NYMR|access-date=9 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044642/http://www.nymr.co.uk/2013/04/40-years-of-celebration-on-the-north-yorkshire-moors-railway/|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

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|Still open

|Former Whitby & Pickering Railway re-opened as a heritage railway. Section retained between Grosmont and Pickering, though NYMR now has permission to run trains on to Whitby.{{cite news|title=Steam rail link back after 42 years|url=http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/steam-rail-link-back-after-42-years-1-1869838|access-date=9 December 2015|work=Whitby Gazette|date=4 April 2007}}

|1885

|1898{{cite news|last1=Green|first1=Carole|title=Walking the line|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2008/10/22/scarboro_whitby_railway_feature.shtml|access-date=11 December 2015|work=BBC|date=23 October 2010}}

|1965{{cite web|title=Robin Hoods Bay|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/robin_hoods_bay/|website=Disused Stations|access-date=11 December 2015}}

|After several abortive attempts, the railway was finally opened in 1885 and was operated by the NER who took full control in 1898. It was closed completely in 1965 with two short sections staying open at the extreme northern and southern ends until 1974{{cite book|last1=Lidster|first1=Robin|title=Scarborough & whitby Railway through time|date=2010|publisher=Amberley|location=Stroud|isbn=978-1-84868-668-7|page=87}} and 1985 respectively.{{cite book|last1=Chapman|first1=Stephen|title=York to Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale|date=2008|publisher=Bellcode Books|location=Todmorden|isbn=978-1871233-19-3|page=65}}

|1850

|1864

|See comments for routes still open

|Initially petitioned in Parliament as the South Yorkshire, Doncaster & Goole Railway, by 1847 it was just simply the South Yorkshire Railway. It became a constituent part of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway in 1850.{{cite web|title=South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12831|website=National Archives|publisher=HM Gov|access-date=12 December 2015|ref=Rail 631}} Much of the collieries and branches it served have been closed, but two major sections remain open - Doncaster to Keadby and Doncaster to Swinton

|1915{{PastScape|mname=Spurn Point Military Railway|mnumber=931916|access-date=25 February 2016}}

|1951{{cite web|title=Remains of the Spurn Head Railway|url=http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/spurn-head-railway/|website=Andrew Grantham|access-date=25 February 2016|date=23 June 2009}}

|Closed completely

|Standard gauge military railway that extended for {{convert|3.75|mi}} along the Spurn Peninsula from Kilnsea to Spurn Point. The railway was built to supply the fortifications along the Spurn peninsula with supplies being brought in by ship from a special jetty at Spurn Point and being railed up to Kilnsea. The line was closed before the peninsula was de-militarised. The line was never grouped or nationalised.{{cite book|last1=Redman|first1=Ronald|title=Railway Byways in Yorkshire|date=1979|publisher=Dalesman Books|location=Clapham|isbn=0852065566|page=69}}

|1848{{cite web|title=REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Hensall1949.pdf|website=Railways Archive|access-date=12 December 2015|page=3|date=4 May 1949}}

|1847{{cite web|title=Wakefield Pontefract & Goole|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Wakefield,_Pontefract_and_Goole_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|See comments for routes still open

|Started out as the Wakefield, Pontefract & Goole Railway as an act in 1845. By the time it was completed in 1847, it was part of the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway.{{cite web|title=Wakefield to Goole|url=http://w.lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Wakefield%20Goole.htm|website=lostrailwaysofwestyorkshire.co.uk|access-date=11 August 2020}} The route is still open and carries a passenger service to Goole as well as an intensive coal and biomass service to the Aire Valley Power Stations.

|2003{{cite web|title=A Brief History of the Line|url=http://www.wensleydalerail.com/about-us2|website=The Wensleydale Railway|access-date=10 December 2015}}

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|Still open

|Wensleydale Railway leased the railway for 99 years{{cite news|title=Rail Back in the Dales|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/3043520.stm|access-date=10 December 2015|work=BBC News|agency=BBC|date=4 July 2003}} from Network Rail after negotiating with Railtrack in 2002.{{cite news|last1=Bibby|first1=Andrew|title=Lifeline for the track that died|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2002/may/12/alternativeinvestment.observercashsection1|access-date=10 December 2015|work=The Guardian|date=12 May 2002}} Line runs from Castle Hills Junction in Northallerton to Redmire, North Yorkshire and is on the former York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway's Bedale Branch and North Eastern Railway Line between Northallerton & Hawes.{{cite web|last1=Catford|first1=Nick|title=Redmire Station|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/redmire/|website=Disused Stations|access-date=10 December 2015}}The line carried on from Hawes to connect with Garsdale station on the Settle & Carlisle line. This was a Midland Railway venture but at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

|1836{{cite web|title=Pickering Station|url=http://www.forgevalleyrailway.co.uk/pickering-station|website=The Forge Valley Railway|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|1854{{cite web|title=Whitby & Pickering Railway Company|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12930|website=National Archives|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|Mostly closed in 1965{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Natalya|title=Whitby-Pickering railway line celebrates its 175th anniversary|url=http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/features/features/8849075.Whitby_Pickering_railway_line_celebrates_its_175th_anniversary/|access-date=9 December 2015|work=Gazette & Herald|date=11 February 2011}}Section between Whitby and Grosmont is now part of the Esk Valley Line. North York Moors Railway now have permission to run trains on the Network Rail section between Grosmont & Whitby.{{cite news|title=North Yorkshire Moors Railway's new platform opens|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-28817679|access-date=9 December 2015|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=16 August 2014}}

|Became part of the York and North Midland in 1854 and was absorbed into the NER. Grosmont to Pickering (and thence to Malton) section closed in 1965.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.nymr.co.uk/information/history/|website=North Yorkshire Moors Railway|publisher=NYMR|access-date=9 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151216161025/http://www.nymr.co.uk/information/history/|archive-date=16 December 2015|url-status=dead}} Re-opened in 1973 as North Yorkshire Moors Railway between Grosmont and Pickering.{{cite news|last1=Wilson|first1=Natalya|title=Celebrating 40 years of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/history/10394726.Celebrating_40_years_of_the_North_Yorkshire_Moors_Railway/|access-date=9 December 2015|work=The York Press|date=2 May 2013}}

|1883{{PastScape|mname=WHITBY REDCAR AND MIDDLESBROUGH UNION RAILWAY|mnumber=29448|access-date=20 December 2015}}

|1889{{cite thesis |last1=Williams|first1=Michael Aufrere|title='A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find': A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 |chapter-url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1220/ |publisher=University of York |via=White Rose eThesis |access-date=20 December 2015 |chapter=Chapter 2 |chapter-format=DOC |page=47|date=2010}}

|1958{{cite web|title=The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway|url=http://www.staithes-town.info/history/railway_in_staithes.htm|website=Staithes Website|access-date=20 December 2015}}

|Opened with financial help from the NER after a section along the cliff face at Kettleness collapsed. The entire line was taken over by the NER in 1889. Closed in 1958, (except for Whitby West Cliff, which stayed open until 1965){{cite web|last1=Mell|first1=Ken|title=Whitby West Cliff Station|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/whitby_west_cliff/|website=Disused Stations|access-date=20 December 2015|date=25 October 2007}} a short section was re-opened in 1974 to serve Boulby potash mine.{{cite web|title=Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway|url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Whitby,_Redcar_and_Middlesbrough_Union_Railway|website=Grace's Guide|access-date=20 December 2015}}

|1839

|1854

|

|Opened in 1839 connecting York with Leeds and Selby, the Y&NMR flourished under George Hudson, but due to financial irregularities, it merged with Leeds Northern, York, Newcastle & Berwick and the Malton & Driffield to become the North Eastern Railway in 1854.

!Name of railway

!Gauge

!Date opened

!Date closed

!Comments

|{{convert|24|in}}{{cite book|last1=Jacobs|first1=Gerald|title=Railway Track Diagrams Eastern|date=2006|publisher=Trackmaps|location=Bradford-On-Avon|isbn=0-9549866-2-8|page=43B|url=http://www.trackmaps.co.uk/trackmaps/product.asp?productid=4&shopcategory=3|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|1976{{cite web|title=End of the line|date=21 February 2013|url=http://new.kirkstall.org.uk/1557|website=Kirkstall Online|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|2013{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Jonathan|title=Miniature Leeds railway on the move|url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/yep125/miniature-leeds-railway-on-the-move-1-5425662|access-date=10 December 2015|work=Yorkshire Evening Post|date=19 February 2013}}

|Former railway that ran in the grounds of Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds. Closed down in 2013, following the death of the owner/operator/engineer the year before.{{cite news|title=Locomotive donated to North Yorkshire volunteer railway|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22065715|access-date=10 December 2015|work=BBC News|date=8 April 2013}}

|{{convert|18|in}}{{cite web|title=Jack's Back|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2009/07/28/local_history_jack_armley_mills_feature.shtml|website=BBC Leeds|access-date=10 December 2015|date=28 July 2009}}

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|Dual gauge line within the industrial museum.

|{{convert|7.25|in}}{{cite magazine |last1=Nicholson |first1=Peter |title=Cedarbarn Railway draws the crowds |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=September 2016 |volume=162 |issue=((1,386)) |page=77 |publisher=Mortons Media |location=Horncastle |issn=0033-8923}}

|2016

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|Circular track on a fruit picking farm

|{{convert|20|in}}{{cite book|last1=Redman|first1=Ronald|title=Railway Byway's in Yorkshire|date=1979|publisher=Dalesman Books|location=Clapham|isbn=0852065566|pages=75–76}}

|1932

|1938{{cite web|title=Golden Acre Park A brief history 1932-2012, 80 YEARS IN THE MAKING|url=http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Golden%20Acre%20Park-%20download.pdf|website=Leeds City Council|publisher=LCC|access-date=20 February 2016}}

|Railway line laid out as a straight out and back line, but with extensions became a circular passenger carrying line around the lake on the Golden Acre Park estate (Bramhope). The line closed because the business failed.

|{{convert|24|in}}{{cite web|title=Bill Hudson Transport Books|url=http://www.billhudsontransportbooks.co.uk/selected-product.php?prod=harrogate+gas+works&pid=648|website=www.billhudsontransportbooks.co.uk|access-date=10 January 2016}}

|1907{{cite web|title=Disused tunnels database|url=http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/tunnels/database/h.html|website=www.forgottenrelics.co.uk|access-date=10 January 2016}}

|1957{{cite book|last1=Bairstow|first1=Martin|last2=Beeken|first2=David|title=Railways Around Harrogate Volume 2|date=1988|publisher=Bairstow|location=Halifax|isbn=0951030272|page=71}}

|Railway connected to the NER at New Bilton for the transportation of coal.{{cite news|title=When the 'Barber' rode through Bilton|url=http://www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/when-the-barber-rode-through-bilton-1-2643432|access-date=10 January 2016|work=Harrogate Advertiser|date=11 January 2008}}

|{{convert|3.5|in}}
{{convert|5|in}}

|

|Still open

|Track runs for {{convert|0.5|mi|1}} in Marley Park in Keighley.{{cite news |last1=Knights |first1=David |title=Model railway buffs appeal for public help after Keighley train track is vandalised |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/13968221.model-railway-buffs-appeal-for-public-help-after-keighley-train-track-is-vandalised/ |access-date=21 January 2020 |work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus |date=9 November 2015 }}

|{{convert|15|in}}{{cite web|title=Kirklees Light Railway|url=http://www.miniaturerailwayworld.co.uk/Kirklees.html|website=Miniature Railway World|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|1991{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Alan|title=Lost stations of Yorkshire the West Riding|date=2015|publisher=Silverlink|location=Kettering|isbn=978-1-85794-438-9|page=95}}

|Still open

|Built on the former Clayton West Branch in West Yorkshire. Standard gauge line converted to run narrow gauge trains.{{cite web|title=History of the Kirklees Light Railway|url=http://www.kirkleeslightrailway.com/index.php/about-klr/history|website=Kirklees Light Railway|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|{{convert|10.25|in}}

|1971{{cite web|title=The Miniature Railway|url=http://www.newbyhall.com/fun-children/miniature-railway/|website=Newby Hall & Gardens|access-date=10 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222130418/http://www.newbyhall.com/fun-children/miniature-railway/|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|Still open

|Originally an end to end line, it now extends around a stately home with a loop to go in a constant circle.{{cite web|title=Newby Hall Miniature Railway|url=http://www.miniaturerailwayworld.co.uk/NewbyHall.html|website=Miniature Railway World|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|{{convert|20|in}}{{cite book|last1=Jacobs|first1=Gerald|title=Railway Track Diagrams Eastern|date=2006|publisher=Trackmaps|location=Bradford-On-Avon|isbn=0-9549866-2-8|page=19C}}

|1931

|Still open

|Closed during the Second World War, this railway runs for {{frac|3|4}} mile along the coast in Scarborough's North Bay.{{cite web|title=North Bay Railway|url=http://www.nbr.org.uk/|website=NBR|access-date=9 December 2015}}

|{{convert|3.5|in}}
{{convert|5|in}}
{{convert|7.25|in}}{{cite web|title=Northcliff Railway|url=http://www.bradfordmes.co.uk/?page_id=99|website=Bradford MES|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|1940/1966{{cite web|title=Society History|url=http://www.bradfordmes.co.uk/?page_id=11|website=Bradford MES|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|Still open

|Bradford Model Engineering society's display and ride on line in Northcliffe Park, Shipley. Open for public rides during the summer.

|{{convert|24|in}}{{cite web|title=Railway|url=http://www.poppletonrailwaynursery.co.uk/railway.html|website=Poppleton Railway Nursery|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|1941{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.poppletonrailwaynursery.co.uk/history.html|website=Poppleton Railway Nursery|access-date=10 December 2015}}

|Still open
Railway was abandoned in the 1990s but was taken up again by a group of volunteers who lease the site from Network Rail.

|Last nursery railway in Britain. Was abandoned during privatisation era but a group of volunteers are in the process of restoring it.{{cite news|title=Poppleton Community Railway Nursery nominated for Community Pride award|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11338097.Poppleton_Community_Railway_Nursery_nominated_for_Community_Pride_award/|access-date=10 December 2015|work=The York Press|date=14 July 2014}}

|{{convert|7.25|in}}{{cite web|title=Miniature Railway|url=http://chainbridgeriverside.com/railway.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061214005103/http://chainbridgeriverside.com/railway.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=14 December 2006|website=Chainbridge Riverside|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|1990{{cite web|title=Ruswarp Miniature Railway|url=http://www.miniaturerailwayworld.co.uk/Ruswarp.html|website=Miniature Railway World|access-date=12 December 2015}}

|Still open

|Circular route that follows the banks of the River Esk in North Yorkshire

|{{convert|15|in}} (1913-1922)
{{convert|18|in}} (1922-1932)

|1913

|1932

|Originally a {{convert|15|in|adj=on}} railway opened in stages from 1913 onwards to serve the estate of Sir Robert Walker in Sand Hutton, North Yorkshire. When the railway was extended to Warthill railway station on the York–Beverley line, extra stock was acquired from a closed railway in London which had an {{convert|18|in|adj=on}} gauge. This necessitated converting the gauge on the line and this was accomplished in stages between 1920 and 1922.{{cite web|title=Disused Stations: Sand Hutton Light Railway|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/sand_hutton_light_railway/index.shtml|website=www.disused-stations.org.uk|access-date=28 July 2017}}

|{{convert|15|in}}{{cite web|title=Saltburn Miniature Railway Association|url=http://www.saltburn-miniature-railway.org.uk/index.htm|website=SMRA|publisher=SMRA|access-date=18 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222123551/http://www.saltburn-miniature-railway.org.uk/index.htm|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|1947{{cite web|title=History Booklet|url=http://www.saltburn-miniature-railway.org.uk/SMR%20History.htm|website=SMRA|publisher=SMRA|access-date=18 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112924/http://www.saltburn-miniature-railway.org.uk/SMR%20History.htm|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|Still open

|Tourist railway that runs inland from the beach for a distance of {{Convert|0.5|mi}}

|{{convert|20|in}}{{cite web|title=A brief history|url=http://www.shipleyglentramway.co.uk/a-brief-history|website=Shipley Glen Tramway|access-date=12 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222122848/http://www.shipleyglentramway.co.uk/a-brief-history|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}}

|1895{{cite news|last1=Thomas|first1=Rhys|title=Shipley Glen Tramway appoints first female tram driver in its 119-year history|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11681668.Shipley_Glen_Tramway_appoints_first_female_tram_driver_in_its_119_year_history/|access-date=12 December 2015|work=Telegraph & Argus|date=22 December 2014}}

|Still open

|Tramway that connects valley bottom to near top of northern side of Aire Valley between Shipley and Baildon in West Yorkshire.

|{{convert|7.25|in}}{{cite web|last1=Little|first1=Lawson|title=2016 GUIDE TO NARROW GAUGE & MINIATURE RAILWAYS|url=http://prsl.uk/ngrs/downloads/ngrs-annual-guide-2016-public.pdf|website=Narrow Gauge Railway Society|access-date=27 March 2016}}

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|Still open

|Used for transporting logs, lavender and passengers around the lavender farm surroundings.

|{{convert|7.25|in}}{{cite magazine|last1=Nicholson|first1=Peter|title=NRM's new line opens...but it's not dual gauge|magazine=The Railway Magazine|date=2 December 2015|volume=161|issue=1377|page=105 |issn=0033-8923}}

|

|Still open

|Paid for railway ride in the south yard of the National Railway Museum in York. Line runs for {{convert|800|yd}}.