Milford Junction railway station

Former railway station in North Yorkshire, England

53°46′16″N 1°14′15″W / 53.7710°N 1.2375°W / 53.7710; -1.2375

Milford Junction
Station site in July 2020 showing Milford Sidings
General information
LocationSouth Milford, North Yorkshire
England
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyYork and North Midland Railway
Pre-groupingNER
Key dates
1840Opened
1904Closed

Milford Junction railway station was a railway station near to Milford Junction on the York and North Midland Railway south of the south-east connecting chord of 1840 between that railway and the Leeds and Selby Railway. The station closed on 1 October 1904, but the site remained in use for locomotive swapping. The station buildings were demolished in 1960.[1]

See also

  • The film Brief Encounter and the one-act play upon which it was based Still Life were both set in a station called Milford Junction. The railway station scenes in the film were actually shot in Carnforth railway station in Lancashire.

References

  1. ^ Ken Hoole (1986), A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Vol 4, The North East (3rd ed.), David and Charles, p. 32

External links

  • University of Portsmouth, "History of Milford Junction, in Selby and West Riding", A Vision of Britain through Time


Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Burton Salmon   NER
York and North Midland Railway 		  Sherburn-in-Elmet
Line and station open
    Gascoigne Wood Junction
Line open, station closed


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