page_title: Cliffe, Selby
section_title: Railways
hierarchical_section_title: Cliffe, Selby / History / Railways
caption_attribution_description: English: Former station at Cliffe Common, 1988. View eastward, towards Market Weighton etc. on ex-NER Selby - Market Weighton - Bridlington line, closed 14/6/65. This substantial station house had been on the Down side of this line, the station having been closed earlier (20/9/54). Cliff Common had also been the terminus of the Derwent Valley Light Railway from York (Layerthorpe), until 1/9/26 when passenger services ceased - after only 13 years, but the DVLR carried goods traffic to Cliff Common until 9/2/65, when it was cut back to York in stages, finally ending on 27/9/81.
context_page_description: Cliffe is a small village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. Until 1974 it was in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  The civil parish includes the villages of Cliffe Common, South Duffield, Lund, and Newhay.
  The site of the former Selby Coalfield Whitemoor mine in the north of the parish is now a business park.
context_section_description: The Hull and Selby Railway  arrived in Cliffe in 1848, and a station was opened in the village as Cliffe Common Gate. It was later renamed Cliffe Common. The station closed in 1954, and the line closed in 1965.
  The Derwent Valley Light Railway opened in 1913 a branch from Cliffe Common; it closed to passengers in 1926; the section between Wheldrake and Cliffe Common closed completely in 1965.
caption: Former station building of Cliffe Common
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