Birstwith railway station

Birstwith railway station served the village of Birstwith, North Yorkshire, England from 1862 to 1964 on the Nidd Valley Railway.

The station opened on 1 May 1862 by the North Eastern Railway. One of the two important intermediate stations on the Nidd Valley Branch, , it had a three-storey station building with the platform at first floor level, with access by steps from the yard. This was a stone building to the designs of NER Architect Thomas Prosser, and with its stepped gables it resembled those at Ripley, Dacre and Pateley Bridge. There was a large goods yard with 6 coal cells, a warehouse, a hand crane, a weigh office and five cottages for railway staff on the northern boundary. The signal and point levers were originally located on the platform but in April 1910 a new signal cabin was put into use at the Ripley end of the platform. Although there was a loop off the single line at Birstwith , this could only be used by freight trains - in fact the timetable did not require passenger trains to cross at intermediate stations.

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