York railway station

York railway station is a mainline railway station in the historic city of York. It lies on the East Coast Main Line between London's Kings Cross station and Edinburgh's Waverley Station. Originally it was part of the Great Northern Railway.

The station provides connections to:

• Doncaster, Peterborough, London and other stations on the ECML south
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and other stations on the ECML north
• Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, and stations through to Birmingham and the far south west
• Harrogate
• Stations on the east coast of Yorkshire

The station's former motive power depot now houses the National Railway Museum.

The first York railway station was built within the walls of the city in 1839 by the North Midland Railway, and served as a terminus for trains to the south. The current station, built to serve many more routes, was built immediately outside the walls and opened in 1877. In 1909 new platforms were added, and in 1938 the current footbridge was built. The building was damaged during World War II and extensively repaired in 1947. Between April and December 2005, work is underway to rationalise and improve the approach to the station, which remains largely as in was in the 1870s, for bus, taxi, and car users as well as pedestrians and cyclists.

External links

• Train times for York railway station from National Rail
• Street map and aerial photo of York railway station from Multimap.com