page_title: York–Beverley line
section_title: Post closure
hierarchical_section_title: York–Beverley line / Post closure
caption_attribution_description: English: Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.Old Level crossing over abandoned Railway line at the former station.
context_page_description: The York–Beverley line was a railway line between York, Market Weighton and Beverley in Yorkshire, England. The line was sanctioned in 1846 and the first part, the York to Market Weighton Line opened in 1847. Construction of the second part to Beverley was delayed for 17 years in part by the downfall of George Hudson, and a less favourable financial environment following the collapse of the 1840s railway bubble; the North Eastern Railway revived and completed the scheme in the 1860s; the Market Weighton to Beverley Line opened in 1865.
  The line left the York and Scarborough Railway at a junction north of York and turned eastward, crossing the largely flat terrain of the Vale of York via Stamford Bridge, Pocklington and Market Weighton before making its way through a hillier ground through a gap in the Yorkshire Wolds, between Market Weighton and Goodmanham; the line then ran steadily downhill to the River Hull valley past Cherry Burton to a junction with the Hull to Scarborough Line at Beverley.
context_section_description: As of 2015, much of the former trackbed is still extant, with exceptions within the towns of Pocklington, Stamford Bridge and the York urban area where building development has taken place. The heavier engineering works east of Market Weighton are more visible, whilst west in the Vale of York parts of the line are no longer evidenced on the ground, more than half of the route is discernible as earthworks or field boundaries. The route between Beverley and Market Weighton has been converted into a cycleway, Hudson Way (also known as Wilberforce Way).
  Many of the line's structures are still extant; exceptions include the station buildings at Market Weighton demolished in 1979, as well as Earswick station, also demolished.
  At Stamford Bridge the station house and platforms survive, as does the goods shed.  The listed iron bridge and viaduct over the River Derwent at Stamford Bridge was proposed for demolition by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in the early 1990s, but the decision was reversed in 1992.
  At Pocklington the station, station master's house, and station goods shed are all still extant, and listed structures. Several other station buildings survive including Fangfoss, Warthill, Holtby,  Nunburnholme, Londesborough, Cherry Burton, and Kiplingcotes.
  Two of the former gate keepers cottages are now Grade II listed buildings, Market Weighton and Barmby Moor.
caption: The former station at Stamford Bridge (2006)
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