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Selby-Driffield line

Selby–Driffield line
to Nafferton
Driffield
to Hutton Cranswick
to Garton
Southburn
Bainton
Middleton-on-the-Wolds
Enthorpe
York–Beverley line
Market Weighton
York–Beverley line
Everingham
Holme Moor
Foggathorpe
High Field
Bubwith
River Derwent
Menthorpe Gate
Duffield Gate
to Skipwith (DVLR)
Cliff Common
to Hemingbrough
former ECML to Riccall
River Ouse
Selby
former ECML to Temple Hirst

The Selby–Driffield line formed part of a railway which connected the East Coast Main Line and the Yorkshire Coast Line. It crossed largely flat terrain and the Yorkshire Wolds and serviced the towns of Selby, Market Weighton, and Driffield. The 1881 census shows that Frances Calvert, a widow aged 69, was the "Station Mistress Railway" at Menthorpe Gate.

The line closed for regular passenger traffic on 20 September 1954, but a service of one regular non-stop train each way plus occasional summer excursions ran until June 1965. The line was abandoned after the last freight train ran later that year.



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