Beverley railway station serves the town of

Beverley Beverley is a market town, market and minster (church), minster town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre ...

in the

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, England. It is located on the

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and is operated by Northern who provide most passenger services from the station.

History and description

Beverley Railway Station - original canopy 1900 (archive ref DDX1525-1-10) (28634461652)

Beverley station was opened in October 1846 by the

York and North Midland Railway The York and North Midland Railway (Y&NMR) was an English railway company that opened in 1839 connecting York with the Leeds and Selby Railway, and in 1840 extended this line to meet the North Midland Railway at Normanton near Leeds. Its first c ...

leased Bridlington branch of the Hull and Selby Railway. The original station was designed by G.T. Andrews. Beverley gained junction status nineteen years later in 1865 when the North Eastern Railway completed the

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to Beverley section of the

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. The station was also planned to be the junction for the

North Holderness Light Railway The North Holderness Light Railway was a proposed light railway, which was to have been constructed between Beverley and North Frodingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The scheme was given parliamentary approval in July 1897 (under ...

. This intended railway was given an Act in

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for 'transferring to the company the North Holderness Light Railway Company; and for other purposes, North Eastern Railway Bill ords' The act was passed on 8 June 1899, but the NER never built the line. The

closed as a result of the

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on 29 November 1965. The station received

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status in 1985. The station has a staffed ticket office, which is open Mondays to Fridays from 07:00 until 17:00 and until 13:30 on Saturdays (closed Sundays). A ticket machine is also provided. There is a waiting room and cafe in the main building next to the ticket hall and a shelter on the opposite platform. Step-free access is available to both platforms, though the southbound one is reached via a manned barrier

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. Train running details are offered via digital display screens and timetable posters.

Future

The station may have more service's introduced as part of the reopening of the York to Beverley Line via

as part of the government's Restore Your Railway's plans.

Services

The station has a two trains per hour service to Hull and

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, with an hourly service to

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on weekdays. At peak times, a number of extra trains from Hull terminate/start here. Most services to Hull continue to and or & . Trains run hourly in each direction on Sundays, with most southbound trains running to Sheffield & hourly extensions northbound to Scarborough all year since the December 2009 timetable change (this service level previously only ran in summer). On 4 February 2015

Hull Trains Hull Trains is an open-access railway operator in England owned by the multinational transport company FirstGroup. It operates long-distance passenger services between Hull / Beverley and London King's Cross. It has a track-access agreement ...

commenced operating one service per weekday between Beverley and London King's Cross with

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. Since May 2019, this has been increased to two trains per day.

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* * {{Railway stations served by Northern Trains Railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire DfT Category E stations Former York and North Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846 Railway stations served by Hull Trains Northern franchise railway stations Stations on the Hull to Scarborough line Beverley Grade II listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire Grade II listed railway stations 1846 establishments in England George Townsend Andrews railway stations