York & Selby Lines

The York & Selby Lines is the name given to a group of services in the West Yorkshire Metro area, connecting Leeds with places to its north and east: as well as the Northern Rail local services to York and Selby, the services extend to:

• Newcastle by TransPennine Express and Virgin Trains
• Scarborough by TransPennine Express
• Middlesbrough by TransPennine Express
• Hull by TransPennine Express

The routes

Before the 1923 Grouping all the routes over which these services operate were worked by the North Eastern Railway. The routes are as follows (Stations in bold are still open):

Leeds - Micklefield

• Leeds New station (now part of the Leeds City station)
• Marsh Lane: the original terminus of the line into Leeds: now closed
• Cross Gates
• here was the junction of a line to Wetherby
• Garforth
• here was the junction of a line to Castleford via Kippax
• East Garforth
• Micklefield here is the junction between the two routes and the limit of the MetroCard ticket scheme

Selby route

• South Milford and Sherburn-in-Elmet
• here was a connection with a line from Castleford to York (Gascoigne Wood Junction)
• Hambleton (closed station)
• Selby
• here was a swing bridge over the River Ouse
• Between Selby and Brough there were stations serving the following places:
  • Hemingbrough closed.
  • Wressle
  • Howden (also served by the Hull and Barnsley Railway (HBR)
  • Eastrington also served by the HBR
  • Staddlethorpe where a branch came in from Goole
  • Broomfleet
• Brough and Elloughton
• two more stations serving:
  • Ferriby
  • Hessle
• Hull Paragon station for Kingston upon Hull

York route

This section of the route is also called the Dearne Valley line (DVL)

• Church Fenton here the DVL heads south for Doncaster; there was also a branch from here to Harrogate via Wetherby
• Ulleskelf and Kirkby Wharf
• there were two places served by the railway now closed:
  • Bolton Percy
  • Copmanthorpe
• York (also served by the Harrogate Line)

Beyond York the main line trains (as detailed above) operate.

External link

• List of all train services operating in West Yorkshire

Railway lines in Northern England:
Main lines:	Cross-Country Route   East Coast Main Line   Midland Main Line   West Coast Main Line  Chester-Manchester Line    Hope Valley Line   Liverpool-Manchester Line    Manchester-Preston Line   Settle-Carlisle Railway
Commuter lines:	Airedale Line Blackburn-Bolton Line   Caldervale Line   Mid-Cheshire Line   Dearne Valley Line    East Lancashire Line   Glossop Line   Hallam Line   Harrogate Line   Huddersfield Line Kirkby Branch Line    Lancaster-Heysham Line   Leeds-Bradford Lines   Liverpool-Wigan Line    Manchester Airport Line    Manchester-Southport Line   Northern Line   Oldham Loop Line   Northallerton-Eaglescliffe Line    Ormskirk Branch Line   Pontefract Line   Sheffield-Hull Line   Sheffield-Lincoln Line   Stockport-Stalybridge Line    Wakefield Line   Wharfedale Line   Wirral Line   York & Selby Lines  York-Scarborough Line
Rural lines:	Barton Line   Borderlands Line   Buxton Line   Cumbrian Coast Line   Doncaster-Lincoln Line    Durham Coast Line   Esk Valley Line   Tees Valley Line   Furness Line   Hull-York Line     Oxenholme-Windermere Line   Penistone Line   Ribble Valley Line   Newcastle and Carlisle Railway    Yorkshire Coast Line