Leeming Bar railway station

Leeming Bar railway station is the eastern rail passenger terminus of the Wensleydale Railway. Trains are timed to link in with Dales and District service buses to Northallerton to connect with the National Rail network.

Leeming Bar
Location
PlaceLeeming Bar
AreaHambleton
Coordinates54.305326°N 1.560705°W / 54.305326; -1.560705
Grid referenceSE285900
Operations
Original companyYork, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Managed byWensleydale Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Platforms1
History
6 March 1848Opened as Leeming Lane
1 July 1902Renamed Leeming Bar
26 April 1954Closed
Spring 2003Reopened
Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The station in 2000

Plans are for passenger trains to eventually continue through Leeming Bar and run into Northallerton railway station. The first phase of this involved re-opening Scruton station and commissioning a temporary structure at Northallerton West in 2014, but this section was closed again in August 2016 following a collision between a train and a car at a level crossing near Yafforth.[1] It is hoped to recommence services to Northallerton West at a future date once work to upgrade level crossing equipment is complete.[2]

Leeming Bar is also the location of the Wensleydale Railway's main depot where its increasing amount of rolling stock is stored and is visible from the A1.

The station was opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (a constituent company of the North Eastern Railway) in 1848 as the terminus of their branch from Northallerton.[3] The line was then extended westwards to Leyburn by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway seven years later. It closed to passengers in April 1954 when the Northallerton to Hawes service fell victim to road competition, but reopened under Wensleydale Railway ownership in the summer of 2003.[4] As well as the scheduled passenger service, the station also sees periodic train loads of military hardware travelling between Catterick Garrison and various destinations in the south of England via Northallerton and the East Coast Main Line.[5]

Preceding station   Heritage railways Following station
Bedale   Wensleydale Railway   Scruton
  Historical railways  
Bedale
Line and station open		   North Eastern Railway
York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway		   Scruton
Line and station closed
  Proposed Heritage railways
Bedale
Line and station open		   Wensleydale Railway   Scruton
Line and station closed

References
  1. Minting, Stuart. "Investigation launched after woman seriously hurt after car hit by train near Northallerton". The Northern Echo. Newsquest (North East) Ltd. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. "Current Projects". Wensleydale Railway. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. Burgess, Neil (2011). The lost railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 9781840335552. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  4. "Passengers make a grand comeback". Darlington and Stockton Times. 10 July 2003. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  5. Shannon, Paul (December 2013). "On Government Business". Railways Illustrated. No. 130. p. 83.


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