Pateley Bridge railway station (Nidd Valley Light Railway)
Pateley Bridge NVLR | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Pateley Bridge Nidderdale England | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 12 September 1907 | ||||
| Closed | 1 January 1930 | ||||
| Original company | Nidd Valley Light Railway | ||||
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Pateley Bridge NVLR station was a railway station serving the Southern terminus of the Nidd Valley Light Railway, in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England. The railway was built to enable the construction of reservoirs in the Upper Nidd Valley, which would
History
The station at the southern end of the Nidd Valley Light Railway was referred to as either Pateley Bridge NVLR, or Pateley Bridge (Nidd).[1] It was opened to traffic on 12 September 1907,[2] and had one main platform, with a second on the southern side, and even though a physical link existed between Pateley Bridge NVLR and the North Eastern Railway's Pateley Bridge station, passengers had to de-train and travel the short distance between the two (about 400 yards (370 m).[3]
Pateley Bridge NVLR was the main station on the line and was equipped with a small goods shed to the north of the station platform, a carriage shed and depot to the west and a signal box at the station's western throat. The exchange sidings with the NER line was to the south of the station.[4]
Services varied over the years, with four out and back workings between Pateley Bridge and Lofthouse in 1912. This was reduced to just three trains during the First World War, when the trains were combined as a passenger and freight service.[5] In 1927, the pattern had been extended to five daily out and back services, with journey times northwards (up valley) taking 25 minutes, and the return down the valley taking only 20 minutes.
References
- ^ Quick, Michael (2020). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain; a Chronology (PDF) (5 ed.). Market Drayton: The railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 334. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Burgess, Neil (2014). The lost railways of Yorkshire's West Riding : Harrogate and the north. Catrine, Ayrshire: Stenlake. p. 29. ISBN 9781840336559.
- ^ Young 2015, p. 108.
- ^ Chapman, Stephen (2011). Harrogate & Wetherby. Todmorden: Bellcode. p. 58. ISBN 978-1871233-24-7.
- ^ Young 2015, p. 109.
Sources
- Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire; the West Riding. Kettering: Silver Link. ISBN 978-1-85794-438-9.
- Bowtell, Harold D (1991). Lesser railways of the Yorkshire Dales : and the dam builders in the Age of Steam. Brighton: Plateway Press. ISBN 1-871980-09-7.
External links
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Nidd Valley Light Railway | Wath-in-Nidderdale Line and station closed |