The train stations pictured below date back to the early to late 19th century and have contributed to the transport industry in Yorkshire. The first train station built in Yorkshire was opened in 1834 and since then stations were built in York, Sheffield, Wakefield and Scarborough.
Railways also contributed to the expansion of Rowntree’s Cocoa Works, founded by Henry Isaac Rowntree in 1862 and by 1900 the railways and confectionery had become York’s two major industries.
1. Scarborough Railway Station
Crowds of day-trippers and holidaymakers arriving on a platform at Scarborough railway station in 1913. Photo: Alfred Hind Robinson / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
2. Woodhouse Railway Station Disaster
A damaged engine of the Great Central Railway after the disaster at Woodhouse near Sheffield in February 1908. Just after midnight on Saturday 29th, a rear end collision occurred between two engines on the Great Central Railway between Woodhouse East and West Junctions. Photo: Topical Press Agency / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
3. Wakefield Railway Station
An LNER train arrived at Wakefield railway station in August 1927. Photo: E. Bacon / Topical Press Agency / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
4. Ripon Train Station
London and North-Eastern Railway locomotive at the City Of Ripon circa 1930. Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images