page_title: Derwent Valley Light Railway
section_title: Route
hierarchical_section_title: Derwent Valley Light Railway / Route
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: The Derwent Valley Light Railway was a privately owned standard-gauge railway in North Yorkshire, England, and was unusual in that it was never nationalised, remaining as a private operation all its life. It ran between Layerthorpe on the outskirts of York to Cliffe Common near Selby. It opened in two stages, in 1912 and 1913, and closed in sections between 1965 and 1981. Between 1977 and 1979, passenger steam trains operated between Layerthorpe and Dunnington — the entire length of track at that time. In 1993 a small section was re-opened as part of the Yorkshire Museum of Farming at Murton.
  The line gained its nickname of The Blackberry Line in the days when it used to transport blackberries to markets in Yorkshire and London.
context_section_description: The original railway was 16 miles (26 km) long, and served the following places:
  Layerthorpe
  Osbaldwick
  Murton Lane
  Dunnington Halt
  Dunnington (for Kexby)
  Elvington
  Wheldrake
  Cottingwith
  Thorganby
  Skipwith
  Cliffe Common, which connected with the Selby to Driffield Line
caption: Former station at Cliffe Common, 1988
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