Driffield railway station serves the town of

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in the

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. It is located on the

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and is operated by Northern, providing all passenger train services.

History

The station was opened by the

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on 6 October 1846, at the same time as the line from Hull to

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. The independent

Malton & Driffield Railway The Malton and Driffield Junction Railway, later known as the ''Malton and Driffield branch'' was a railway line in Yorkshire that ran between the towns of Malton, North Yorkshire and Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The line opened ...

company obtained parliamentary approval to build a branch line between there and Malton in the same year, but more than six years would pass before it was ready for traffic, the first train running in May 1853. This was never more than a rural branch line, but the final route into the town, from

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via

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(opened on 1 May 1890), proved rather more important as it soon became busy with holiday traffic from the West Riding heading for the resorts further up the coast. Today, though only the original coast line remains in use, the Malton line having succumbed to road competition as long ago as June 1950, the Selby line falling victim to the Beeching Axe almost exactly fifteen years later (closing on 14 June 1965).

Station Masters

*Francis Warwick 1846 – 1883 *Thomas House 1883 – 1902 *John Mace/Mais 1902 – 1920 *William James Chapman 1920 – 1925 (formerly station master at Market Weighton) *E.H. Fowler 1925 – 1932 (afterwards station master at Northallerton) *Thomas E. Allen 1932 – 1936 (afterwards station master at Bridlington) *James T. Batty 1936 – 1942 (afterwards station master at Beverley) *James Dennis 1942 – 1944 (afterwards station master at Beverley) *E.W. Hope 1944 – ???? *H. Mattison 1946 – 1951 (formerly station master at Leyburn, afterwards station master at Malton) *H. Bradshaw 1951 – 1953 *A.R. Binner 1953 (formerly station master at Newsham) *F. Newlove 1956 – 1961 (formerly station master at Church Fenton, afterwards station master at Malton) *L. Haigh 1961 – ???? (formerly station master at Bubwith)

Facilities

The station is staffed part-time, with the ticket office open from 07:15 to 13:30 six days per week (closed on Sundays). A ticket machine is also available. Waiting rooms are provided on both platforms. Train running information is offered by digital information screens, telephone and timetable posters. Both platforms have step-free access.

Services

The station has a twice hourly service in each direction to Hull and Bridlington on weekdays, with alternate northbound trains continuing on to

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. Many of the Hull services run through to

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

and

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or . There is an hourly service each way on Sundays to Scarborough and Sheffield throughout the year (rather than in summer only) since the timetable change in December 2009.

Notes

References

External links

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Driffield station at The Yorkshire Wolds Railway Restoration Project
* Railway stations in the East Riding of Yorkshire DfT Category F1 stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1846 Northern franchise railway stations Stations on the Hull to Scarborough line 1846 establishments in England Former York and North Midland Railway stations George Townsend Andrews railway stations Driffield {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub