York Rail Station in the evening. City of York, North Yorkshire, England
York railway station is a main line railway station in the historic city of York It lies on the East Coast Main Line ECML 303 km 188 miles north of London s King s Cross station towards Edinburgh s Waverley Station Originally it was part of the North Eastern Railway The first York railway station was a temporary building on Queen Street outside the walls of the city opened in 1839 by the York and North Midland Railway and was the terminus of the original trunk route for trains to London via Derby and Birmingham A second station inside the walls was built by George Townsend Andrews in 1840 and opened on 4 January 1841 This station closed in 1877 when the present station opened but remained in use for a further 88 years as carriage storage space Andrews also designed the neo Tudor arch where the walls were breached and the hotel across the head of the lines completed in 1853 This station was the first to incorporate a hotel in its structure The hotel and flanking departure and arrival buildings now used as offices still stand on Toft Green Tanner Row although the train shed was largely demolished in 1965 It was replaced by the present station designed by the North Eastern Railway architect Thomas Prosser and William Peachey On completion in 1877 it had 13 platforms and was the largest in the world In 1909 new platforms were added and in 1938 the current footbridge was built The building was damaged during the Second World War and extensively repaired in 1947 In 2006 7 the approaches to the station were reorganised in order to improve facilities for bus taxi and car users as well as pedestrians and cyclists The former motive power depot and goods station now house the National Railway Museum
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Location: York Railway Station, york, north yorkshire, england, united kingdom
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