Pool-in-Wharfedale railway station was a railway station serving the village of

Pool-in-Wharfedale Pool-in-Wharfedale or Pool in Wharfedale, usually abbreviated to Pool, is a village and civil parish in the Lower Wharfedale area, north of Leeds city centre, north-east of Bradford, and east of Otley. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan ...

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. It was opened by the North Eastern Railway (NER) as part of a branch line constructed to link the line between Leeds and Harrogate with a new joint line, the

Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway The Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway was a railway line running between the towns of Otley and Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The line was managed and run jointly by the Midland Railway (MR) and the North Eastern Railway (NER) and was long. Opened to ...

that the NER was building in conjunction with the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

. The station operated for 100 years, being opened in 1865 and closing as part of the

Beeching cuts The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised British Rail, railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Develop ...

in March 1965."End of the Line"
'History of Pool-in-Wharfedale''; Retrieved 18 November 2016 The station's name appeared as Pool in earlier Bradshaws, but changed to Pool-in-Wharfedale by the October 1931 issue. The defunct railway was lifted in 1966 and the station building was demolished in 1974; a housing development now occupies the site. The trackbed between Burley in Wharfedale, Otley and Pool is to become a

cycleway Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use. Bikeways include bike paths, bike lanes, cycle tracks, rail trails and, where permitted, sidewalks. Roads used by motorists are also cycling infrastructure, except w ...

footpath A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide ...

and

equestrian The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse". Horseback riding (or Riding in British English) Examples of this are: * Equestrian sports *Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...

route known as the

Wharfedale Greenway The Wharfedale Greenway is a proposed Cycling infrastructure#Bikeways, cycleway, footpath and Bridle path, equestrian route which will run along the route of the former Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway between Burley in Wharfedale and Pool in Wharfe ...

, with possible extensions onward to Ilkley alongside the extant railway. Planning permission for the first phase of the greenway was granted in July 2020.

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Pool-in-Wharfedale station on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Leeds Beeching closures in England Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965 1865 establishments in England 1965 disestablishments in England {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub