Aysgarth Station

Spent a day at Aysgarth falls and walked some of the old railway line and stumbled across the old railway station at Aysgarth what closed to traffic in April 1954. Just to let you all know this Station is a private dwelling so PLEASE DON'T VISIT UNLESS YOU HAVE PERMISSION FROM THE OWNERS!!!

[@jonwhiting6528]

Hi John, what a lovely find. Enjoy your hols.

[@HighOakJunction]

Thanks mate 👍🏼, I was like a kid in a sweet shop when I stumbled across this, so glad I continued walking the track bed as I wouldn't have seen it if I turned back. It was certainly a great find 😀

[@jamessucksinlife170]

its nice to see the wenslydale railway have put the track back in the station, its a BR Mk2 not a Mk1 parked outside of the goods shed

[@garybelshaw2527]

Wensleydale Railway did not lay the track it is privately owned

[@pacermanthefan]

@@garybelshaw2527 Yeah it's owned by the person who owns WCRC

[@breintonjunction791]

What a nice find you stumbled on and the photo really brought it to life enjoyed it thanks for sharing cheers Al

[@HighOakJunction]

Hi Al, thanks for watching and for your comment 😊. Yes a great find, found old trackbed on are walk and thought I walk some of it when I came across the station. So I was really chuffed excuse the pun. All the best John.

[@AussiePom]

Someone else has done a walk on the same track bed but from Garsdale Station down to Mosshead Tunnel which is slowly collapsing due to ground pressure pushing the sides of the tunnel inwards and a large piece of the tunnel wall inside has already collapsed. If the Wensleydale railway does one day get back to Garsdale then that tunnel will be a problem and probably opening it out into a deep cutting with a small bridge spanning the cutting for the minor road that crosses it maybe a cheaper alternative to completely rebuilding the tunnel which will always suffer from ground pressures. Aysgarth Station my have been sold into private ownership which is why it survived.

[@HighOakJunction]

Thanks for your comment. That walk sounds interesting. I drove past Garsdale a few times but not walked that part of the line. You can see the old railway infrastructure along the road at times. Regards John

[@AussiePom]

@@HighOakJunctionWe have plenty of abandoned lines here down under but unlike the UK the railway lines are still there. Only recently I was at a place called Coolah which was a branch terminus and the lines are all still there as is the turntable and only the wooden platform is slowly rotting away. The vegetation is kept at bay by horses so we've gone backwards from the iron horse to real horses. Even the branch line tracks can easily be seen from the road that runs parallel to the line. They've only been cut where they cross driveways into farms. UK branch lines often have silver birch trees growing in the four foot whereas we have species of eucalyptus growing in ours with the track gauge mostly standard gauge but in places ultra broad gauge of 8' or more as tree trunks push the rails ever further apart.

[@mattygarner33]

The railway track as just been relayed the last year at Aysgarth railway station itself.

[@HighOakJunction]

Thanks for that Matty, yeah if you watch the Wensleydale railway video I done, I interviewed a man called Chris who told me about the railway and Aysgarth Station situation. Thanks for your message and your time in watching. Cheers John

[@eveannwallis4939]

Very interesting, but the coach is a BR Mk 2 not a Mk1.

[@HighOakJunction]

Hi Eve, thanks for yiur comment and watching plus also the correction regarding the coach not my strong point 😬. Regards John

[@gordonlola]

It is a private dwelling.

[@HighOakJunction]

Yeah, I found out after I visited the Wensleydale railway 2 days later, and Chris, a volunteer who I spoke to at Leyburn station, informed me that they had sold the station.