Wensley railway station is a disused railway station on 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 ...

, in

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. It was opened by the North Eastern Railway on 1 February 1877, and served the village of Wensley. The station was host to

camping coach Camping coaches were holiday accommodation offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from the 1930s. The coaches were old passenger vehicles no longer suitable for use in trains, which were converted to ...

from 1936 to 1939 and may have had a coach visiting in 1934 and 1935. The station closed on 26 April 1954. The station buildings and platforms survive as a private residence. The railway through the station was reopened as the

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Wensley station on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Video footage of Wensley Railway Station
Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954 Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Wensleydale {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub