Crakehall railway station was a railway station that served the village of

Crakehall Crakehall is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, approximately west of Bedale. The village lies along the route of the A684 road, A684 and is split into two parts by Bedale Beck, a tributary of the River Swale ...

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History

Opened by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway, it became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS) of the "Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It ope ...

during the

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of 1923. The line then passed on to the

North Eastern Region of British Railways The North Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified by the orange signs and colour schemes that adorned its stations and other railway buildings. It was merged with the Eastern Region i ...

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in 1948. It was then closed by

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in April 1954.

The site today

Track still passes through the station site, providing rail access for the

Wensleydale Railway The Wensleydale Railway is a heritage railway in Wensleydale and Lower Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England. It was built in stages by different railway companies and originally extended to Garsdale railway station on the Settle-Carlisle line ...

which operates west from

Leeming Bar Leeming Bar is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village lay on the original Great North Road (Dere Street) before being bypassed. It is now home to a large industrial estate and the mai ...

. The crossing is now manually operated by a crossing keeper when the heritage line is operating. The station building remains intact and is used as a private house.Crakehall station (2012)
Templeman, Roger ''Geograph.org.uk''; Retrieved 21 June 2017

References

External links

Crakehall station video footage

Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1921 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 Former North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom) stations Wensleydale 1856 establishments in England 1917 disestablishments in England 1921 establishments in England 1954 disestablishments in England {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub