Crakehall railway station was a railway station that served the village of

Crakehall Crakehall is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, approximately west of Bedale. More known as Thomas Barkers home grounds. The village lies along the route of the A684 and is split into two parts b ...

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History

Opened by the Bedale and Leyburn Railway, it became part of the

London and North Eastern Railway The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the " Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. At th ...

during the

Grouping Grouping may refer to: * Muenchian grouping * Principles of grouping * Railways Act 1921, also known as Grouping Act, a reorganisation of the British railway system * Grouping (firearms), the pattern of multiple shots from a sidearm See also ...

of 1923. The line then passed on to the

Eastern Region of British Railways The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings. Together with the North Eastern Region ( ...

nationalisation Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization usually refers to pri ...

in 1948. It was then closed by

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

in April 1954.

The site today

Track still passes through the station site, providing rail access for the

Wensleydale Railway The Wensleydale Railway is a heritage railway in Wensleydale and Lower Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England. It was built in stages by different railway companies and originally extended to railway station on the Settle-Carlisle line. Since ...

which operates west from

Leeming Bar Leeming Bar is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The village lay on the original Great North Road (Great Britain), Great North Road (Dere Street) before being bypasse ...

. The crossing is now manually operated by a crossing keeper when the heritage line is operating. The station building remains intact and is used as a private house.Crakehall station (2012)
Templeman, Roger ''Geograph.org.uk''; Retrieved 21 June 2017

References

External links

Crakehall station video footage

Crakehall station homepage
Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1921 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Wensleydale {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub