Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station serves the town of

Sherburn in Elmet Sherburn in Elmet (pronounced ) is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, west of Selby and south of Tadcaster. It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is one o ...

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, England. The station is located approximately from the town centre. The railway through Sherburn-in-Elmet was opened in 1840 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 ...

. The station was closed on 13 September 1965Sherburn-in-Elmet Railway Station
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with local authority support. Sherburn-in-Elmet is on both the Dearne Valley Line and the Hull-York Line towards

Selby Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...

. Trains to/from the latter use the curve south of the station to the former

Leeds and Selby Railway The Leeds and Selby Railway was an early British railway company and first mainline railway within Yorkshire. It was opened in 1834. As built, the line ran west/east between two termini, Marsh Lane station, Leeds and Selby railway station. The ...

at Gascoigne Wood Junction, which was opened just a few months after the main Y&NMR route. This line became the main rail route between Hull and York after the route via and fell victim to the

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

in November 1965, though many of its trains were in turn diverted via the newly constructed north curve at Hambleton and the

East Coast Main Line The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a electrified railway between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. The line is a key transport artery on the eastern side of Great Britain running broa ...

Selby Deviation when this opened in 1983. Since the mid-1990s though, a number of Hull - York trains have reverted to the old route to provide Sherburn with commuter links to and from York in the wake of cutbacks to the Dearne Valley line timetable (this had seven trains each way when the station reopened in 1984, but now has only two - see below) and avoid the increasingly busy ECML.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has waiting shelters on each platform (but no other permanent buildings). Tickets must be bought in advance online, or from the Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) located inside the waiting shelter on the York-bound platform. Train running information is provided by timetable posters and telephone (a payphone is located on platform 2). The two platforms are linked by a barrier

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formerly used by road traffic - wheelchair users are advised not to use this due to gaps in the boards. There are access ramps to both platforms.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, there are now eighteen trains per day to York (up from fourteen in the previous timetable) on a basic hourly frequency - these mostly run from via Hull and Selby, though three come from via the Dearne Valley Line. A similar service level operates southbound, with thirteen trains to Selby, Hull and Bridlington, plus three to Sheffield.GB National Rail Timetable December 2019 Edition, Table 33 (Network Rail) Most of the extra trains call in the afternoon and evening, giving the station a much better service at those times. On Sundays, there are six trains to Hull, two to Sheffield and eight to York.

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