Finghall railway station

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Finghall
Station on heritage railway
FinghallLevelCrossingAndStation(StephenCraven)Feb2006.jpg
General information
Location Finghall, North Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 54°18′21″N1°43′06″W / 54.305860°N 1.718200°W / 54.305860; -1.718200
Grid reference SE183900
Managed by Wensleydale Railway
Platforms1
History
Original company Bedale and Leyburn Railway
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
19 May 1856Opened as Finghall Lane
26 April 1954Closed
23 December 2004Reopened as Finghall

Finghall railway station is on the Wensleydale Railway and serves the village of Finghall in North Yorkshire, England. Adjacent to the station is a manually operated gated crossing on the single-track Wensleydale Railway.

The station was opened as Finghall Lane by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway on 19 May 1856. It was closed in April 1954, but was used sporadically between 1984 and 1988 for detraining passengers on DalesRail services. [1] [2] The station was used in the 1970s and 1980s by the BBC Television series All Creatures Great and Small , renamed as "Rainby Halt" for the show, [3] with the signboard advising passengers bound for Darrowby to "alight here"; no passenger trains called at the station during that time.

The station was reopened by the Wensleydale Railway on 23 December 2004 [4] after being closed for half a century. [5]

Currently, trains operate on a request-stop basis, whereby if there are passengers on the platform then the train will halt, but if there are no passengers the train will continue through without stopping. Passengers wishing to alight at Finghall must inform a member of the train crew and they will take action to ensure the train stops at the station. [4] Only two or three out of the ten trains a day actually halt at Finghall, and often this is just to ensure good timekeeping.

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References

  1. ↑ Quick, Michael (2009). Railway passenger stations in Great Britain : a chronology (4 ed.). Oxford: Railway Canal & Historical Society. p. 173. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5.
  2. ↑ Jones, Robin (March 2018). "Wensleydale ditches public service in favour of heritage trains". Heritage Railway. No. 239. Horncastle: Mortons Media. p. 8. ISSN   1466-3562.
  3. ↑ "TV vet still brings in tourists 35 years on". Darlington and Stockton Times. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 "New Dales railway station opens". BBC News. 23 December 2004. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ↑ Hemmings, Julie (24 December 2004). "Rural railway reopens its fifth station" . Newsbank. The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
Preceding station HR icon.svg   Heritage railways Following station
Leyburn   Wensleydale Railway   Bedale
  Historical railways  
Constable Burton
Line open, station closed		  North Eastern Railway
Bedale and Leyburn Railway 		  Jervaulx
Line open, station closed
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