Yardley Wood is one of the stops on the Shakespeare (or North Warwickshire) Line out of Snow Hill. It was opened by the GWR in 1908 as Yardley Wood Platform. By the First World War the Platform part of the name had been dropped [1]. Unlike some of the other stations on this line Yardley Wood never had goods facilities and is remarkably unchanged from its earliest days.
When built Yardley Wood was built in a very rural area with few houses nearby though now is a suburb in the South East of Birmingham (though is not to be confused with Yardley in the East of the city).
Despite still having the original (and decent sized) main station building still being in place on the up platform the ticket office is on another building at road level.
A LM Class 172 pauses on a service to Whitlocks End
Main station building
Shelter on the down platform
Looking down towards Stratford
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Moor St (Middleton Press, 2006) p. 79
Yeo Mill Halt was a stop on the Devon & Somerset Railway in Devon between East Anstey and Bishops Nympton & Molland.
Yeo Mill Halt (KD collection)
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Devon & Somerset Railway)
Opened:
1932
Closed:
1966
Platforms:
1
The station was the last to be opened on the Devon & Somerset Railway (which opened in 1871), Yeo Mill Halt was not opened until 1932. The station was very basic with a single wooden platform and a shelter. The station was managed from East Anstey. It was closed along with the rest of the line in 1966. The station was demolished and within a few years there was little trace left of the halt.
Ynyslas was a stop on the Cambrian Line in Ceredigion, Wales between Glandyfi and Borth.
Information
Type:
National Rail
(Cambrian Line)
Opened:
1867
Closed:
1965
Platforms:
2
The station was opened by the Cambrian Railway in 1867 on it's line to Aberystwyth. The station had wooden station buildings and platforms, with a signalbox behind one of the platforms. The station has a couple of sidings to serve the riverside wharves.
The station was closed in 1965.
Ynyslas in it's latter days, the signalbox is fire damaged (Photo by HB Priestley in 1963, KD collection)
York is about half way between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh on the East Coast Main Line and is a major junction and railway hub in the North East. It is also next to the National Railway Museum (see below).
Information
Type:
National Rail
(East Coast Main Line)
Station code:
YRK
Opened:
1877
Platforms:
11
York's first railway station opened in 1839 on a different site, followed by another station inside the city walls in 1841. The current York station opened in 1877 just outside the city walls as a through station and was the largest station in the world when it was built.
Most platforms are covered by a long curving roof. The station was extensively damaged in the Second World War by bombing but was repaired in 1947 and is now Grade II* listed.
York once had fifteen platforms though some have been removed due to remodelling, a major example taking place in 1988 as part of the East Coast Main Line's electrification. The station was renovated in 2009. York is currently managed by London Northeastern Railway (LNER) and is also served by Cross Country, East Midlands Trains, Northern, Hull Trains, Trans Pennine Express and Grand Central.
Virgin Trains East Coast 43 305 pauses with a ECML express
A Northern Pacer in one of the bay platforms
TPE 185 123 under the curved roof
Northern 142 023 in one the bays, a former platform is to the right
A Class 800 Azuma, the future of traction at York
National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum is home to much of the National Collection of rolling stock and other preserved items. The museum was opened on the site of a former roundhouse next to the ECML (and York station) in 1975. Exhibits include Mallard, Flying Scotsman and the first Modernisation Plan diesel locomotive D8000 (below).
