The Lost Stations of York

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I hope you enjoy this film - please like, share and subscribe! Might you consider supporting my channel even more? www.buymeacoffee.com/rediscovering

[@TheShanampan]

Tanner ROW not road! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

[@TheShanampan]

You obviously know very little,in the first four minutes you have made two glaring mistakes,I will not bother watching the rest of this.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

@@TheShanampan pull yourself together

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

@@TheShanampan just go, no need to flounce out

[@TrainspottingTV21]

Hi are you able to make a video for the Harrogate line?

[@michaela.chmieloski3196]

After ten minutes I now know more about York's railway stations than I learned in my first 61-plus years. Thanks, RLR.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Then my work here is done! So glad you enjoyed the film 🙂

[@1anhunter1]

I had no idea that York Racecourse had a raceday-only station up until the outbreak of WW2. I would certainly have used it for my many trips to the Knavesmire from London. I am used to the mile-long walk to the track from the current station, and enjoy it, but racecourse stations are handy. The ones that still exist are Kempton, Esher, Ascot, Lingfield, Plumpton - all in the south.

[@Deetyork]

Copmanthorpe on York’s outskirts also had a station 1839-1959 on the York-Normanton line.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Yes! I think it was just outside the radius I had set for the film, but thank you!

[@adamc1272]

Bone cracking flu, out on my a**e...what to do...REDISCOVERING LOST RAILWAYS UPLOAD!!! A beacon of hope in the morass of my self pity! Thank you sir!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'm so pleased that this film came at the right time! Get well soon!

[@steveosborne2297]

The problem is with most of the closures , especially the Beeching ones , at the time yeah they probably were not required . However now probably three-quarters of those lines that were closed are now desperately needed as commuter lines to take traffic off the roads . That whole period in the 1960s really just shows the shortsightedness of the existing government . So many of those old lines have now been re-constituted as tramways or in some cases guided bus ways

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your thoughts - much appreciated!

[@adrianpeters2413]

Steve Osborne.. and maybe not... short sighted govt. ..more tax revenue from car operations than spending tax on railways, WHAT! WHAT! Did I hear ... tax paid is for the publics use .WHAT! Balderdash and be off with you....

[@johnkeyes272]

Beeching was a evil man left many high and dry,kept his local station running for his own convenience although running at a loss as were many hence the closures

[@johnkeyes272]

Governments and people don't think as you do they be wanted motorways and now we have them packed with lorries and commuters,we deliver our freight thank you by road not by rail, history repeating itself it was barges originally then rail,all that money spent on waterways to be abondoned in favour of rail and rail abondoned in favour of congested motorways

[@neiltonks4627]

Some historians believe Beeching was something of a whipping-boy. He was acting under the orders of Ernest Marples, the transport minister who appointed him. Marples and his family had financial interests in companies which were contracted to build motorways, so there was a huge conflict of interest at play.

[@4june9140]

My brother and I as kids spent hours playing in York station, we had to buy a platform ticket in those days.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

What a beautiful station it is!

[@stevieinselby]

I learned about the original terminus inside the walls, because I was working for the council when they moved into it. It's a shame you didn't get to look inside the offices, there are some really nice features, such as exterior walls (complete with drainpipes) inside, as the original buildings formed a horseshoe around the platforms, and where the platforms were is now infilled as open-plan office space, but the original buildings house meeting rooms around the outside.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I would've liked to have done that very much!

[@BibtheBoulder]

Absolutely fascinating.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed!

[@bryanerde2564]

I was posted to RAF Staxton Wold in 1966 and we visited York regularly; the old station was in use as museum then, a bit cramped and nothing like the variety of stock that the current one has. Later I worked at the Agricultural College and visited Layerthorpe for supplies; the Derwent Valley Railway was still extant then and ran occasional specials. Happy days!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Wonderful memories! Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@stephenharper9961]

As soon as I saw this upload to KZbin I was watching it, one of the best researchers and disused railways KZbin channels out there, always a joy, keep up the amazing work as always

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

You really are very kind - thank you for this high praise - much appreciated!

[@thefettfan3994]

In these modern times with growing, busy populations its more than likely that those featured stations would now be a welcome godsend in the needs for public transportation! Nice feature indeed!!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed - and I daresay many on here would agree with your assessment!

[@johnrobinson1843]

Thank you for another informative and interesting video. Dreadfully sad that some of these lovely station buildings are no more. Shame on the developers and planners. Beautifully produced and narrated as usual.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to compliment my efforts so - thank you indeed!

[@johnkeyes272]

Developers today is "dirty" word uselly related to"greed"

[@cycklist]

Your videos are breathtakingly good 👍 So evocative, and so well researched.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Wow, thank you ever so much indeed!

[@josephj9828]

Nice video of these lost stations. I would ask if you could add a map with the location of the stations for future videos. It could add some perspective of the areas of the cities that would have benefited from them.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Noted! And usually I do provide a map, so I don't know why I didn't on this occasion!

[@josephj9828]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I thought I remembered it from your past videos. But it did not diminish the quality of this one!

[@MikeSmith-fq1kb]

As an New Earswick Lad I well remember the steam trains goods and passenger passing through Earswick Station. My uncle started his railway career at Earswick

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

What fabulous memories! A different era indeed!

[@ianramsden8562]

I actually used Earswick station once for a day trip to Brid. Must have been about 1960.

[@Omega21456]

I was born and still live in a York, The Derwent Valley Light Railway ran behind my parents house we used to watch the trains going past from when the goods wagons were pulled by Steam locos up until the mid 60s when diesel shutters were used. I remember the level crossing at New Earswick and the DMUs at Rowntree Halt, sadly as most of us do we take things for granted expecting the railways to always be there. I had a camera in those days but never thought to capture the everyday railway activity. Great video by the way👍🏻

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your thoughts and memories 🙏

[@sarahaspinallaspinall2072]

would you know if Tadcaster ever had a train station

[@Omega21456]

@@sarahaspinallaspinall2072 yes there was a Railway Station at Tadcaster it was roughly where the industrial estate is now I think (Tadweld area) it went through Newton Kyme, Wetherby and to Leeds

[@Omega21456]

@@sarahaspinallaspinall2072 yes It did it went through Newton Kyme a few other stations, Wetherby and into Leeds

[@sarahaspinallaspinall2072]

@@Omega21456 thank you

[@colinday63]

Very professionally done! Well done on another great video. Also well done for keeping the railway history alive.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so - much appreciated!

[@bobsrailrelics]

Another fact packed video. Visited the city last year, wish I had seen this before I went. Thank you.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad you enjoyed it! I hope you get to visit this fine city again with this film in mind!

[@timdaugherty5921]

How amazing!! I Booked my trip to London today!! I will arrive in June and plan to visit York!! I would love to meet you in person also!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Excellent - and definitely go to York - you won't regret it. My email address is in the video description :)

[@timdaugherty5921]

Did you get it yet ?

[@ianramsden8562]

When a student I worked in Rowntrees emptying the waggons of returned chocs inside the factory itself. Little electric shunters pulled them in and out.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Wonderful memories, thanks for sharing!

[@craigdon3840]

Another masterpiece. I look forward to all your amazing videos coming out

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks Craig - so glad you enjoyed this entry! Wishing you a very happy Christmas indeed 🎄

[@daystatesniper01]

Excellent as usual , if these stations were open today it may ease some of the horrendous grid-lock traffic York sees at rush hour ,several rumours about re-opening the York-Bev' route ,Haxby station etc' but we shall see , final point Rowntree Halt station name board resides in the NRM

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thanks for the tip RE: the name board - here's hoping the line has a chance of reopening!

[@davidclaytonddc]

I enjoyed the video, I often walk the cycle path from Rowntrees to Osbaldwick. At Murton, the museum of farming volunteers have restored about 1km of track and run trains. I don't think it would take much to restore more of this line perhaps as far as the new houses at Derwentthorpe. Not for service passengers, but for the museaum attraction, unfortunately I think the cycle track is too residential and used for commuters to be returned to a working line.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for you thoughts and comment - such rich railway heritage around those parts!

[@HenrysAdventures]

Interesting video as always. I once walked part of the Foss Islands Branch but didn't know about Roundtree Halt. Interesting to hear of the heritage steam service in the 1970s. It would be great to see the short Derwent Valley Light Railway extended into York along that trackbed.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Yes agreed 👍

[@ianvallender7892]

Tough question I live in Cheltenham it too has a lot of lost railway stations even in the villages Andoversford and Bishops Cleeve aswell as Cleeve (Stoke Orchard)!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'll have to come up that way and explore!

[@michaelbottomley2520]

Nice to see the old steam trains and old stations

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Couldn't agree more 👍🙂

[@michaelpilling9659]

I lived in york from 1976 to 1979. I knew about the original York station within the city walls but knew,a little about the others. Excellent video, well made, full of historical facts and information.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

A very fine city - I'm glad this video helped expose some hidden corners!

[@Darth_Chicken]

Excellent doccumentry. I lived in York for many years until recently and did not know about all that shown here. I do remember seeing the diesel locos operating in front of Rowntrees. I believe at least one of them is now in preservation.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Really glad you enjoyed the film!

[@317Dan]

I'm from York so found this extremely enjoyable, thank you! As for the question at the end, I'd love to see us get more stations as currently we heavily rely on other forms of transport to get us to the station in the first place before even getting a train. It's nice that Poppleton station stayed open, but others like Copmanthorpe (on the ECML about 4 miles south of York station) and Haxby would benefit the local areas it would serve; the latter so much that they're starting work on building a new station there right now. It is annoying that I live a 5 minute walk from the railway, but a 25 minute walk to the station, but we have a decent bus service and most routes go to the station anyway so I think it'll stay a dream for now.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thanks for your comment and kind words about my film. I'm not from the area so it is interesting to hear about the public transport situation from an insider!

[@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels]

Your videos are an oasis of calm in my life. I would love to buy you a beer. As always, thank you.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Wow, thank you! And I would graciously accept! Many thanks indeed!

[@gareththomas6714]

extremely well done and very interesting-you should do a similar video on Swansea's lost city centre stations ,which at one time had seven stations

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Most kind - and I will look into it!

[@taintedfairy131]

Great video though I was surprised you didn't give a little shout to the old station offices building that still stands as The Grand Hotel. Very beautiful building.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you - yes, must've missed that, but a great excuse to visit this fine city once more!

[@ianr]

Excellent and enjoyable as always. A pleasure to watch. 👏🙂

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Nice to see you in my neck of the woods! Great stuff, I knew about the original station, but not the temporary one!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

It was a delightful, fleeting visit to this wonderful city 🙂

[@hullhistorynerd]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways It is a beautiful city, and sadly I don't get to go as often as I'd like even though it's just up the road!

[@TheBroomwagon]

Well researched and very interesting. As a child I remember a single class 20 working the Foss Islands branch to the coal drops that I believe is where the current Waitrose supermarket stands.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you for your kind words about my film. Ah the sound of a class 20 - magic!

[@emayteetee73]

There’s a lovely photo of Holgate Station (the platform used by race-goers to reduce walking distance to the Racecourse) in The Fox pub at the road junction of Holgate Road and Acomb Road. Some of the decor inside echoes this era; leather suitcases on luggage racks mounted on the wall in one of the pub’s ‘compartments’, for example.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'd be delighted to have a look next time I'm up there!

[@Astronemma]

Great video! Perhaps a bit far out from the city centre for you to have covered, but there were additional stations on the Scarborough line at Haxby and Strensall. It’s looking likely that a new station will be built at Haxby which is great news!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you for your kind words about my film! Yes, I've heard of these other stations but wanted to remain focused on York proper for the purposes of keeping the film concise. And good news about Haxby! I'll keep my eye out for news on it 🙂

[@sturmtigerking4263]

This is another enjoyable film from your channel. Great video.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'm so pleased it didn't disappoint - many thanks indeed!

[@paulmasterson386]

The Derwent valley railway actually kept the foss islands connection going long after foss islands itself closed. Its worth remembering as one of the very few lines that avoided both the regrouping and nationalisation.

[@snubby4624]

Happy to see an upload from you! 😃

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

More to come in the new year - thanks for supporting my channel!

[@majorbloodnok6659]

Thank you once more

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

My pleasure, thank you 🙂

[@digitalmoviedv]

Interesting video and great camera woork! New subscriber. Greetings from Italy. Stefano

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you for your comment and subscription! What a beautiful country you live in!

[@macstyle2012]

I remember Rowntree Halt, Layerthorpe and Dunnington being open. Not York - but I remember getting off the once a day stop at Melton Halt near Hull.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thanks for sharing!

[@benclarke4470]

I love your narrative voice! Truly TV quality production!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so, thank you 😊

[@mirutanable]

may have been a short video.... but an was it packed with information and i loved every minute of it.... great work keep it up

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'll do my best - thanks very much indeed!

[@RichardWells1]

Thank you for yet another throughly researched, well narrated, interesting and informative programme. While the circumstances that gave birth to these stations have, undoubtedly, changed over decades, and it might be difficult to justify their existence nowadays, there must surely be merit in protecting the buildings that contributed to the rich architectural heritage that our railways have given us. Thankfully, our railway heritage generally is well served in York, thanks to the museum!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your comment and kind words about my film. And I agree - I don't know that stations such as those featured would have been of major benefit (aside from Earswick if that line had remained open). Maybe a tram system would be better. But what a great city York is!

[@Gary0557]

I often wish I'd been born 20 years before I was, so that I could have explored so many branch line stations that were lost to the Beeching cull.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

You and me both! How I would've liked to found some railwayana and enamel signs!

[@LucasHarris]

i don't know why, but i feel like your quality of editing has become so much more wonderfully dynamic, like you've stepped up you're game (i don't know if that's the case, but OH MY GOD IS IT GOOD). great work, as per usual!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Really very kind of you to say so - in theory I hope my craft can only improve, but I'll allow you and my other generous subscribers to be the judge 🙂

[@MrVxrman]

I finally got the chance to watch your new video 😎 I must say your work is well put together and really interesting too. So I would like to say Many thanks for sharing 👏🏻 All the best 🤗🍻👍🏻

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

So glad it didn't disappoint! Many thanks indeed for your ongoing support 🙏🙂

[@stephenkerr789]

Very intersting video, being born in earswick I can remember seeing the trains passing by from our back garden as a small child. We moved away when i was about 6 years old but often came back to visit our grandparents who also lived in Earswick it was sad to see the station slowly detiorate and then disappear. I also remember the other york station inside the town walls when it was used as carriage sidings.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Wonderful, evocative memories - thank you for sharing them 🙂

[@michaelwilson6584]

Great video. I would have liked mention of the closed stations along the Scarborough line, for example the maybe to be reopened Haxby station and Stensall. There is also merit in looking at some of the other lines which radiated from the “new” York station - which is why it has so many unused bay platforms - like the Pocklington, Beverley and Hull line and, of course, the original East Cost Mainline via the Naburn and Selby swing bridges (both still there) and much of which can be walked from Tesco at Tadcaser Road at least as far as Riccall. That line closed partly to avoid delays at the bridges and partly to bypass subsidence at the Selby coalfield, can still be traced by the curve round the Tesco car park.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thanks - glad you enjoyed the film, though you'll appreciate that to capture all these suggestions would require another film or sequence of films altogether - the focus here was just about those stations within York and the immediate vicinity. But I'd like to go back and undertake more exploration!

[@michaelwilson6584]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I especially like the photograph and references to York Layerthorpe, a station few have heard of and of which nothing remains (except for some trackbed footpaths). Finally, there are one or two remnants of the once extensive sidings at Foss Islands serving the livestock markets. For example, a small locomotive shed on Kent Street.

[@hoppinonabronzeleg9477]

The halfway point between London & Edinburgh is outside the old Kirkstall Forge on Kirkstall Road in Leeds. Where there is a stone obelisk 200 miles each way 1:00. Fascinating I remember Terry's and Rowntrees being bought out, by Nestles and Suchard. Shame HOABL

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your thoughts and comment 🙂

[@MrDavil43]

I've made many visits to York over the years, but didn't have an inkling about these old stations. And I call myself a railway enthusiast! As mentioned elsewhere, a map please. Thanks for the video, utterly brilliant.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I don't know why I didn't do a map this time as I usually do! Really glad you enjoyed the film 🙂

[@peterjackson6547]

Excellent. I was born in York but knew very little of this history. Thanks

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'm glad to have been of service 🙂

[@andyrob3259]

Always enjoy your videos. Far too long between them so I always start watching them all again from the start. And you have a great speaking voice for it (some people just have the gift of sounding calm and informative) that makes it easy to watch (hate those that use computer generated AI voices - can never sit through them). Always wanted to stay at the Royal York hotel attached.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so, I'm glad this entry didn't disappoint. I'm happy they stand up to re-watching!

[@EandEFC]

Fantastic another great video

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so, thank you!

[@HM...333]

What an amazing video, thanks for that.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so, thank you!

[@rolandharmer6402]

Brilliant video, many thanks.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to say so, thank you 🙂

[@fhwolthuis]

Excellent video, thank you! I hope to visit York once in the future 👍😊

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed - and it is a very fine city!

[@jeremywilliams2478]

These are getting better and better. Great little history lesson. I know York well but had no idea there was a station inside the walls.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

It was news to me too!

[@geof1954]

Really enjoyable. Thank you.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@robertwoolford5151]

Really enjoying your films ~ Subscribed & Spreading on Facebook 🚂☁️☁️☁️

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

That's very kind of you indeed. Just putting the finishing touches in my next one and I'm out tomorrow filming a major project!

[@davidcoath6741]

Excellent video. Full of factual information and well illustrated with old photos. So good to watch and learn from. Thank you.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

So pleased you enjoyed the film. Do subscribe if you've not already done so and enjoy my other films in the series 🙂

[@jeffjordan8182]

Thank you for another wonderful video. I always look forward to your work.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

So nice of you to say so, thank you!

[@oddities-whatnot]

subscribed :) This is definitely one that couldn't be reopened ! Too much in the way now.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you very much indeed 😊

[@ceanothus_bluemoon]

Thank you for another fascinating tour through history. I have long loved York, but really only new about the huge arch being punched through the city walls.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

My pleasure - and it is such a great city!

[@Nivshin53]

You can argue the toss about closures all night long and still not get a consensus! What many of your excellent and knowledgeable productions reveal is the number of closures made pre-Beeching - and many going back to the period between the two World Wars. As I have said to you previously on this subject, it is often not a case of whether or not a particular line should have been closed - more a questions as to whether it should ever have been built in the first place! If only we could lay a standard gauge line down as quick as we can roll out a Model Rail Layout! So many where a good idea in the moment - but by the time several years later when construction was complete the business proposition (if it had ever really existed in the first place) was gone!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

You're absolutely right, of course, and your points are worth remembering when considering the debates pertaining to railway closure 🙂

[@nonameisneeded6648]

Would be also nice to know that another station that was called Haxby , will be getting rebuilt (in a different location) in the next few years as well

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

You've done the job for me, thank you!

[@hamishmacbeth4292]

Having lived and worked in York all my life it was nice to see the old Stations and track great video, Thank you. There is an old line that was taken away in the 1980s after closing to passenger traffic 10 plus years previously between Grimsby, Louth and London, I believe it was known as the fast Fish line, could make London in 2 hours back in the day. Well worth looking at?

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your comment and kind words about my - I will look into the line you mention as it sounds fascinating!

[@darren25061965]

There are plans to re-open the Earswick (New Earswick) Station, although not on the original site as that land has been redeveloped.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

That I didn't know! Many thanks indeed!

[@chrisgreen8803]

Excellent thanks

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'm glad you enjoyed the film 🙂

[@harrymcandrew1447]

never even knew the present station replaced 1 before it or a wooden one or even a racecourse one

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Nor did I until making this! Thanks for your comment 🙂

[@harrymcandrew1447]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways your welcome and ive shared it not so long again now having know york had more then the current day one makes it more interesting

[@TheShanampan]

I remember working for a cleaning company that was based in the building where west offices now are,I used to go in the back gate,where the crossing is now at the bottom of Queen st bridge,then walk along the old platform to get to work.There is still a lot to see of the old station at west office,but only if you work for the council sadly.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I thought you weren't going to watch this film owing to two mistakes?

[@TheShanampan]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I only watched the first part,after the two mistakes I thought not much point in watching the rest,why would I?

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

@@TheShanampan just enough time to add another view to the count though and leave a long comment - which contributes towards the film's visibility on KZbin etc - so thanks 🙂

[@randomroveruk6715]

Very informative. Thanks!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

My pleasure, thank you 🙂

[@flalingbashers2957]

Brilliant video

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed!

[@mickbutton3625]

There is now discussions around a new station at Haxby

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Yes, so I hear - I'll keep my eye out!

[@Mykbyker]

Once again an excellent film! I cannot comment on the closures as I am not familiar with the local circumstances, but suspect the motives were not always completely transparent. I wish you a Happy Xmas and look forward to next year's interesting videos. Mike

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed for your support - wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas!

[@yorkie2789]

It's a big thumbs up from me, and I know a bit about York.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed!

[@yorkie2789]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways Please ignore the negative comments, this information isn't widely available and by putting it all in one short video it'll really help those who know anything about York other than the current station to see the bigger picture. It's a gem, many thx.

[@yorkie2789]

*don't know

[@cbrooks122000]

Good video, I holiday around York, never knew about most of these stations. I knew there was the old York station but not exactly where it was. Interesting about the other stations. Weird about the racecourse one, I regularly go to Kempton Park racecourse for motobike autojumbles and it still has its station, although Surbiton is less than half a mile away, I would have said Kempton is a smaller racecourse than York.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@20PhantoM07]

Your doing well mate, your doing very well.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Most kind of you to say so, thank you 🙂

[@EM-yk1dw]

Great film, I believe there have been various proposals over the years to reopen the York to Beverley line, it should not have been closed, direct link to Hull. Would you be able to make a film about the Cross Gates, Wetherby, Harrogate to Ripon and Northallerton line sometime in the future please?

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thank you kindly! I can certainly look into your recommendation!

[@EM-yk1dw]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways Thank you, the Wetherby loop is another line that definitely should not have been closed. Wetherby is a big town now and there could have been a Leeds Harrogate circular service. Also it is scandalous that the line through Ripon was closed, one of biggest places in England now without a rail service.

[@christinaburton9297]

Oh wow thank you!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad it didn't disappoint!

[@MRPUD1]

If you had travelled a touch further you would have reach the only piece of operating line at Murton on the DVLR . But it’s a great insight into york

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Yes, I saw that advertised, but I felt it was too far out to justify its position in the film. Many thanks for your comment and kind words 🙂

[@MRPUD1]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways it’s good to see the lost railways keep it up it very intresting

[@tomcarr1358]

Well researched and nicely presented as others below have already said. Locations plan almost superfluous this time. No mention of Mr Hudson .

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed!

[@1258-Eckhart]

I think the plan is to intensify the use of York as an interchange station, with more services terminating here and other services not stopping at intermediate stations on the ECML (so you have to change trains).

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Interesting - I wonder what the rationale is?

[@1258-Eckhart]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I think they want to accelerate services on the ECML to make the London - Edinburgh times fully competitive with air travel.

[@Clivestravelandtrains]

I found this interesting as I worked at BR Eastern Region HQ after leaving school in 1972 until 1987. For some years, along with many other people, I kept a bike on the former terminus station. The tracks to it were cleared prior to the construction of Hudson House when the former North Eastern and Eastern regions of BR were merged in 1967. Many of the former railway offices have now been converted into luxury hotels or flats, such is the transformation of York over recent times. By the way, the walls around the city are called the Bar Walls, not the "City Walls" and you also referred to Tanner Row by an incorrect name. I regret that I never rode on the Rowntrees train, I guess I took it for granted like we always took KitKat and Yorkie bars as a fixture of the city!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your thoughts and memories!

[@Grassington2]

I used to park my motorbike (Honda VFR 750) on the old station site and then walk into work in Hudson House (an awful building in so many ways). Yorkie bars were young upstarts compared to KitKat. The Yorkie bar chocolate was never that good IMHO; it had more than a hint of condensed milk about it.

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[@peterwatkins7419]

aNOTHER BRILLANT AND AMAZING VIDEO

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

[@RichardFelstead1949]

As always, a very interesting video.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Thanks for your ongoing support!

[@sameyers2670]

Thank you I found this really interesting. Now subscribed.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Very kind of you to subscribe. Do have a rummage around my channel and let me know what you think!

[@sameyers2670]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I will do

[@sameyers2670]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I have only watched a couple of the videos so far but I am very impressed, I will watch the others as and when I have time. I wondered if you could cover the Hornsea and Withernsea lines please? Both local to me, one closed just before the 1964 election and the other just after. I have heard the then Hornsea MP tried really hard to get the closure overturned but was basically told to shut up on the grounds to reprieve Hornsea would cause bitterness in Withernsea.

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

I greatly enjoyed this wonderfully observed journey through York's lost stations. Perhaps some of the former trackbeds, if accessible, merit further investigation.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Really glad you enjoyed the film!

[@richardskelton5119]

Re-instating the Derwent Valley Line and creating a Heritage service to the York Museum would be a great tourist attraction, but an even greater headache for Network Rail!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Now what a great idea that is 👍🙂

[@Andrewjg_89]

I like York. I’ve been to York 5 times and the station is magnificent.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Beautiful city and station!

[@Andrewjg_89]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways So right :)

[@railwaychristina3192]

Any of the cricket pavilion station buildings have been saved? They are pretty 🎉

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Hmm, pass, I don't know...

[@willswheels283]

Thanks for this, really informative, I never knew there were that many disused stations around York. I’m not from the area myself but after this video I know it better now.

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I'm so glad you enjoyed the film. I'm not from the area either, but it is such a lovely city to explore 🙂

[@willswheels283]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I agree I’ve been there a couple of times, one of the nicest cities in the uk.

[@a11csc]

great vid

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks indeed!

[@Scots_Diesel]

Really enjoyed that thanks

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Glad to hear it! Many thanks indeed :)

[@christinaburton9297]

They are going to re open more stations to Scarborough! Isn't Osbaldwick cricket pavillion style station gorgeous.. have any of these buildings been preserved?

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

I don't know if any have been preserved - but I agree - lovely building!

[@markcousins9337]

LNER closed the intermediate stations on the Scarborough line, not British Railways. They were closed because local stopping passenger services got in the way of the "Wakes Week" factory trains taking West Yorkshire factory workers to Scarborough and Filey for their hols en masse.

[@jeffreyhodge5564]

Railway closures were happening before Dr Beeching who did some good and was working under the dictate from the government but now the A’s closure programme of the 60/70s has in hindsight was catastrophic for uk ,ie if live in Harrogate ,no trains to Ripon and onwards ,line to Wetherby and on to Leeds,the line to Otley from Arthington and onward ,it’s easy to rip a line up but try re opening very exspensive, but the same through the whole of uk ,barmy ,bonkers ect!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

Many thanks for your comment and thoughts!

[@DurhamGooner]

Very good, could a map be included along with the dialogue so we can see exactly where the lost stations were? Excellent content though!!

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

You know what, I have done in every film I've ever made and, on this occasion completely forgot! Many thanks indeed 🙂

[@DurhamGooner]

@@RediscoveringLostRailways I feel bad now! Keep up the good work!

[@barryjohnson2901]

Great video. Does anyone know what the blue pipework beyond the bridge is at 8’36”?

[@RediscoveringLostRailways]

If I remember rightly, it is an art installation - it peppers the course of the cycle path - thought I stand to be corrected!