The roadbridge over the Trans-Pennine Trail at Escrick
Overview
Other name(s)
York and Doncaster branch line East Coast Main Line (old route)
Status
Partially closed
Owner
Network Rail
Locale
Yorkshire
Termini
York (historical) Selby (current)
Doncaster
Stations
11/12[note 1]
Service
Type
Heavy rail High speed rail
Operator(s)
CrossCountry
East Midlands Railway
Grand Central
Hull Trains
LNER
Northern
History
Opened
2 January 1871 (1871-01-02)
Technical
Line length
33.5 mi (53.9 km)
Track length
27 mi (43 km)
Number of tracks
2
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
25 kV overhead (partial)
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York and Doncaster Line
Legend
East Coast Main Line
York–Scarborough line
York
Dringhouses up and down yards
Chaloners Whin Junction
Copmanthorpe
Colton Junction
to Leeds and Pontefract Baghill
Selby Diversion (ECML)
Naburn Swing Bridge
over River Ouse
Naburn
Escrick
Riccall
Selby to Hull line
Selby Swing Bridge
over River Ouse
Selby
to Leeds via Micklefield
Temple Hirst
Selby Diversion (ECML)
River Aire
Temple Hirst Junction
to Knottingley
disused chord
to Goole
M62 motorway
Heck
Balne
Moss
Joan Croft Halt
to Knottingley
Joan Croft Junction
Thorpe Marsh Junction
to Hatfield and Stainforth
Shaftholme Junction
to Wakefield Line
Arksey
to Wakefield Line
South Humberside Main Line
Doncaster
to Rotherham
East Coast Main Line
The York and Doncaster branch was a railway line that opened in 1871 connecting Doncaster with York via Selby in Yorkshire, England. This line later became part of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and was the route that express trains took between London King's Cross, the north of England and Scotland. It was opened by the North Eastern Railway (NER) between York and Shaftholme Junction, some 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Doncaster railway station. Between its opening in 1871 and the grouping in 1923, the line was used by both the NER, and the Great Northern Railway (GNR). All of the intermediate local stations that had opened with the line in 1871 closed down in the 1950s and 1960s leaving just Selby open between the town of Doncaster and the city of York.
In the 1970s, a plan for extracting the coal from underneath the northern section of the line between Selby and York, led to British Rail building an avoiding line, the Selby Diversion, which fully opened to traffic in October 1983.[note 2] The southern section of the line between Doncaster and Selby is still open to enable trains from Doncaster to access the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.[note 3]
The trackbed of the line between Selby and York is now used partly by the A19 (as a bypass at Riccall), whilst the rest of the route forms part of the Trans-Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route 65.
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