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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