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Ulleskelf railway station serves Ulleskelf in North Yorkshire, England. The station is 8.75 miles (14 km) south of York.

Ulleskelf
Northbound view
General information
LocationUlleskelf, Selby
England
Coordinates53.853560°N 1.214060°W / 53.853560; -1.214060
Grid referenceSE517399
Managed byNorthern
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeULL
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1839
Passengers
2016/17 8,376
2017/18 7,480
2018/19 7,256
2019/20 13,236
2020/21 3,100
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History


The station opened on 29 May 1839 on the York and North Midland Railway near where it crossed the River Wharfe.[1] The station appears to have been subsequently redesigned and slightly relocated following the construction of the bridge carrying New Road (the B1223) over the tracks: the 1849 Ordnance Survey map (which predates the bridge) implies that the first station building was either adjacent to, and at right angles to, the Ulleskelf Arms public house, or directly across the track from the pub on West End Road.[2] Neither of these two candidate buildings survives. The map drawn from the 1888 survey shows the station in its current position on the south side of the new road bridge,[3] with a new access road from the east end of the bridge across Hall Garth to the junction of Main Street and a newly-extended Church Fenton Lane. This map shows the station alongside a goods yard built on the site shown to be a plant nursery on the 1849 map. Further evidence of this change in layout is the existence of the terrace called 'Station Cottages' on Main Street at the junction of Church Fenton Lane, now some 200m north of, and out of sight of, the modern station. The station avoided the Beeching Axe in the mid 1960s due to the poor road network in the area (there being no easily accessible road bridge over the river for York-bound commuters).[4] Today the station is unstaffed with all trains operated by Northern. Though there are four tracks in the vicinity, the island platform only serves the eastern pair.


Accidents and incidents



Services


Twelve trains call at Ulleskelf on weekdays and Saturdays. Six to York northbound and three to Leeds (with one of those continuing to Blackpool North) and three to Hull (with one of those continuing to Bridlington) southbound.

In addition, due to Northern Rail running rail replacement buses between Moorthorpe and York, 3 buses run in each direction on weekdays and Saturdays.

Thirteen trains call here on Sundays: six trains to York, two to Sheffield, four to Hull and one to Selby.

In December 1997, a wheelchair accessible footbridge opened.


Modernisation/electrification


In May 2021 as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade, it was confirmed electrification of the line between York and Church Fenton would happen along with other upgrades.[7] Further confirmation of the upgrade came from the publishing in November 2021 of the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP)[8][9] includes full electrification between York through Church Fenton to Manchester.


References


  1. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  2. "View map: Yorkshire 205 (includes: Church Fenton; Kirkby Wharfe and North Milford; Saxton ... - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  3. "Explore georeferenced maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  4. Body, G. (1988), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1, p.172
  5. Hoole, Ken (1982). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 3. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 14. ISBN 0-906899-05-2.
  6. "Report on the Derailment that occurred on the 8th December 1981 near Ulleskelf" (PDF). Railways Archive. Department of Transport. 8 December 1982. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  7. "Government announces £317m in Transpennine Route Upgrade investment". Rail Technology Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  8. Department for Transport (18 November 2021). Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (PDF). UK Government. ISBN 978-1-5286-2947-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  9. Media, Insider. "Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade project moving to next phase". Insider Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2021.


Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern
Dearne Valley Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
Northern
Hull-York Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
Northern
York & Selby Lines
Mondays-Saturdays only
  Historical railways  
Church Fenton
Line and station open
  North Eastern Railway   Bolton Percy
Line open, station closed





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