Clapham railway station
Clapham (North Yorkshire) 
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Eastbound platform
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| Location | |
| Place | Clapham |
| Local authority | Craven |
| Coordinates | 54°06′19″N 2°24′37″W / 54.105394°N 2.410208°WCoordinates: 54°06′19″N 2°24′37″W / 54.105394°N 2.410208°W |
| Grid reference | SD732678 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CPY |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 7,390 |
| 2012/13 |
7,624 |
| 2013/14 |
7,768 |
| 2014/15 |
 6,618 |
| 2015/16 |
6,654 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1849 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Clapham (North Yorkshire) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Clapham railway station serves the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England. The station is 48 miles (77 km) north-west of Leeds on the Leeds to Morecambe Line towards Lancaster and Morecambe. It is managed by Northern who provide all passenger train services.
The station (which is unstaffed) is situated just over a mile outside of Clapham. Immediately to the east, the line crosses the River Wenning on a tall, five-arch viaduct.
The station was formerly known in the national timetable as Clapham (Yorkshire), to distinguish it from Clapham (London), until the latter was renamed Clapham High Street.
The station was opened by the "little" North Western Railway (NWR) on 30 July 1849 on their line from Skipton to Ingleton and became a junction the following year when the link along the Wenning Valley from Bentham was completed on 1 June 1850 to finish the route from Lancaster to Skipton.
The Ingleton route was subsequently extended northwards, as the Ingleton Branch Line, through Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh to join the West Coast Main Line at Low Gill (near Tebay) by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&C) in 1861, but disagreements between the L&C's successor, the London and North Western Railway, and the Midland Railway (who had leased the NWR in 1859) over running rights and the subsequent construction of the Settle-Carlisle Line, meant that it never became the major Anglo-Scottish route that the NWR had originally intended.
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