Rowntree Halt railway station

Rowntree Halt
Location
Place	York
Area	City of York
Coordinates	53°58′25″N 1°04′48″W / 53.973600°N 1.079926°WCoordinates: 53°58′25″N 1°04′48″W / 53.973600°N 1.079926°W
Grid reference	SE604534
Operations
Original company	London and North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
History
1927	opened
1988	closed
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Rowntree Halt was a minor unmanned railway stop on the Foss Islands Branch Line in York. Located on the southern edge of the Rowntree's chocolate factory, Rowntree Halt was opened in 1927 by the London and North Eastern Railway to provide a small untimetabled passenger service to the Rowntree factory for workers commuting from areas south of York such as Selby and Doncaster. The Halt itself was little more than a signal and a single short platform located a few yards west of the siding that allowed freight directly into the factory complex. The Halt was closed on 8 July 1988,^[1] a year before the branch line itself was closed, and the line was dismantled and turned into a cycle track.

References

1. "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)". Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Retrieved 2008-08-09.