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Description: Former station at Cliffe Common, 1988. View eastward, towards Market Weighton etc. on ex-NER Selby - Market Weighton - Bridlington line, closed 14/6/65. This substantial station house had been on the Down side of this line, the station having been closed earlier (20/9/54). Cliff Common had also been the terminus of the Derwent Valley Light Railway from York (Layerthorpe), until 1/9/26 when passenger services ceased - after only 13 years, but the DVLR carried goods traffic to Cliff Common until 9/2/65, when it was cut back to York in stages, finally ending on 27/9/81.
Title: Cliffe Common former station geograph-3150075-by-Ben-Brooksbank
Credit: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Ben Brooksbank
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