Bedale railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Bedale |
| Area | Hambleton |
| Coordinates | 54°17′20″N 1°35′17″W / 54.289°N 1.588°WCoordinates: 54°17′20″N 1°35′17″W / 54.289°N 1.588°W |
| Grid reference | SE269882 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway |
| Managed by | Wensleydale Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| 1 February 1855 | Opened |
| 26 April 1954 | Closed |
| 2004 | Reopened |
| Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom | |
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Bedale railway station is a Railway Station on the Wensleydale Railway and serves the town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, England.
First opened by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway in November 1855, the station very nearly did not get built at all as the initial plans for the Leeming to Leyburn route would have completely bypassed the town. This problem was subsequently corrected (following a major outcry in the locality) and by May 1856, passenger services had started running between Northallerton and Leyburn. These were subsequently extended to Hawes and Hawes Junction (later Garsdale) by the North Eastern Railway in 1878.
Although the section between Bedale and Leeming was doubled by the turn of the century, the station never received a second platform as the line became single again before passing through it and the adjacent level crossing. Services were always modest at best, with a basic timetable of between five and seven trains each way operating right up until the closure of the line to passengers in April 1954, less than a decade after British Railways took over the line upon nationalisation of the UK network.
The platform was given a moderate facelift in 1970 when the Royal Train was stabled overnight in the station. The Queen was on a ceremonial visit to the nearby Catterick military complex.
The station remained open for goods traffic for many years after the cessation of passenger trains (until 1982) and even then the platform and signal box survived (the latter to supervise the crossing and the last remaining passing loop on the otherwise single track route). Limestone trains from Redmire to the steelworks at Redcar ended in December 1992, but the line was subsequently retained for use by the Ministry of Defence to move military hardware to and from Catterick Garrison via a new transshipment facility at Redmire.
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