Starbeck railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Starbeck
code = SBE


manager = Northern Rail
locale = Starbeck
borough = Harrogate
start = 1848
platforms = 2
usage0405 = 0.133
usage0506 = 0.133
usage0607 = 0.128

Starbeck railway station is located in the eastern suburbs of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Harrogate Line 3 km (2¼ miles) east of Harrogate and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services.The station dates from 1 September 1848 and was the first to serve Harrogate, although intending passengers initially had to make the two and a half mile connection from the town centre on foot or by horse bus as the Leeds & Thirsk company had elected to take an easily-graded route to the east rather than cross the Crimple Valley and serve the town itself. The line on to Ripon and Thirsk was opened the following July, with a further line to Knaresborough and York (courtesy of the "East & West Yorkshire Junction Railway") being completed on 1 October 1851. However it wasn't until both concerns had been absorbed by the North Eastern Railway some years later that the issue of a link into the centre of Harrogate was addressed, with a route via Dragon Junction to a new central station (and on via Crimple Viaduct to Pannal Junction) being commissioned on 1 August 1862 [Body, p.160] . This new loop soon became the preferred route for most through traffic between Leeds and Teesside, leaving Starbeck to be served primarily by York trains although some freight and excursion traffic continued to use the original L&T line for many years thereafter.
Services the old line to Pannal ended in October 1951 [Body p.109] , whilst the Leeds Northern main line to Ripon & Northallerton was closed to passengers in 1967 and completely two years later.

ervices

During Monday to Saturday off-peak, there is a half-hourly service from Starbeck westbound to Leeds and a half-hourly service eastbound to Knaresborough with one train per hour onwards to York.

During evenings and on Sundays there is an hourly service in each direction.

There are proposals to create another station between Starbeck and Harrogate at Bilton.

Notes

References

*Body, G. (1988), "PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2", Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1

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