Disused railway. Driffield junction to Malton. Part 5 Burdale to Burdale Tunnel

The Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, later known as the Malton and Driffield branch was a railway line in Yorkshire that ran between the towns of Malton, North Yorkshire and Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The line opened on 13 April 1853. It became part of the North Eastern Railway (1854), then London and North Eastern Railway (1923), becoming part of British Railways in 1948. Passenger services on the line gained the nickname the Malton Dodger.
Between the 1920s and 1950s the line saw use transporting chalk from the Burdale and Wharram quarries. Passenger services ended in 1950; the Burdale quarry closed in 1955, and the line closed in 1958.
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[@MrJasdog107]

Can't wait to have walk round that area i have been to the North Portal but the South looks impressive.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

Yes. It is. There is also another tunnel on this line that no one talks about or films!! But I have!! That’s to come in an episode soon!!

[@paulbrown1574]

​@@newmotorcycleguy that's interesting about a secomd tunnel on there. Keep these coming they are brilliant. Looking forward to the next instalment.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

@@paulbrown1574 will do!! The whole line has been filmed!

[@MrJasdog107]

Is the Drewton Tunnel on your to visit list.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

@@MrJasdog107 quite possibly. But have a full schedule at the moment

[@tonystack7375]

Was the concrete base near the platform a base for a crane for unloading goods.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

It may have been. But I’m not certain this station had a crane. I do have some plans of the station and don’t recall seeing one. Maybe I should take another look 👍🏻

[@exploringthepastandthepres9793]

Good to actually see the platforms ! 😀

[@newmotorcycleguy]

Yea, worth a visit in winter!

[@richard1313]

I've also been tracing this line recently while cycling the area. I've been up the hill at 8:30 a few times and always been frustrated I can see the tunnel portal from the road. I love the dry valleys of the Wolds because they all look like disused railways to me because of they way they snake through the hills with really flat bottoms. Just yesterday I rode from Fimber Halt in a loop around Sledmere looking for sections of the track there but very little evidence remains.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

Yep. There are a few bridges, cuttings and embankments. Next to zero sleepers and chairs and a couple of old broken signal poles. Not a lot left at all

[@TheMightyKinkle]

1:11 Please tell me that's part of the funnel from a steam train! That would be so cool

[@newmotorcycleguy]

haha thats the dream right there!

[@bobsmodelrailways]

6:46 to 6:56 these are Coal Drops.

[@newmotorcycleguy]

Yes. Thank you. They were pretty big. I’ve since seen many and some Absolutely huge ones in Leeds!!

[@alantraish3368]

Great video. That gate on the tunnel should be locked as its very dangerous in there due to collapse. I think the Birdsall estate are responsible for it?

[@newmotorcycleguy]

it seems a long way from that estate i dont know who own it.

[@alantraish3368]

@@newmotorcycleguy ok . Its either them on National Highways( the former BR property board ascendents)

[@newmotorcycleguy]

@@alantraish3368 ok

[@caseysanderson9419]

I’m currently building an EM Gauge model of Burdale, and me and my mate went up there last Sunday for a look around. The gap in the platform is for the point rodding and ground frame. It was boarded over by a wooden plank, and there was a small corrugated metal hut which housed the point rodding as seen in one of your photos. The other platform is also a loading dock 🙂 That small hut you saw half way down the line is also just a lineside hut, the two smaller ones up near the quarry are blast huts, for workers to take cover in when they were blasting as rocks flew everywhere. The small pile of bricks near the tunnel is where there was a house and lineside hut. These were for the guys employed by the railway to maintain the tunnel 🙂 Great video! Thank you for sharing 🙂

[@newmotorcycleguy]

Interesting. And you are welcome. Good luck with the build!!

[@edransom1861]

Excellent video from memory that hole would likely be the location of the ground frame and the concrete slab looks like its the location of were the lock up goods/parcel warehouse would be there is a a picture of that somewhere including the top of the steps coming up :) keep up the videos :)

[@edransom1861]

The other platform is goods and from what my grandad told me it was just flat with a battered embankment at the rear on to the road way :)

[@newmotorcycleguy]

I would agree on that. I’ve been sent all sorts of photos of it now!