Thirsk railway station
Thirsk 
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View north from the footbridge, showing the lack of platforms for the two centre tracks
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| Location | |
| Place | Thirsk |
| Local authority | District of Hambleton |
| Coordinates | 54°13′42″N 1°22′21″W / 54.228240°N 1.372620°WCoordinates: 54°13′42″N 1°22′21″W / 54.228240°N 1.372620°W |
| Grid reference | SE409816 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | THI |
| Managed by | TransPennine Express |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.189 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.191 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.194 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.212 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.218 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Great North of England Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 31 March 1841 | Opened as Newcastle Junction |
| ? | Renamed Thirsk |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Thirsk from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Thirsk railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the town of Thirsk, North Yorkshire. It is 210 miles 56 chains (339.1 km) down-line from London King's Cross and is situated between York to the south and Northallerton to the north. Its three-letter station code is THI.
The station is about 1.5 miles (2 km) outside of Thirsk town centre and is actually on the edge of the village of Carlton Miniott.
There are four tracks, but only the outer two have platforms. From satellite imagery it can look as if there are platforms on the inner two tracks, but examination on the ground shows this not to be true; the platform faces serving the innermost pair of tracks were removed in the 1970s in preparation for higher-speed main line running using InterCity 125 trains. The station is operated by First TransPennine Express. Other train services are provided by the open-access operator Grand Central Railway.
The railway line between York and Darlington was built by the Great North of England Railway, most of which was authorised in 1837; the line was formally opened on 30 March 1841. The station at Thirsk, which opened to the public on 31 March 1841, was originally named Newcastle Junction.
In 1933 Britain's first route-setting power signal box using a switch panel rather than a lever frame opened at Thirsk, to the specification of the LNER's signalling engineers A.F. Bound and A. E. Tattersall, forming the template for many such future installations on the nation's railway network. Larger schemes to a similar design followed at other locations on the former North Eastern Railway network, such as Hull Paragon (1938), Northallerton (1939) and York (1951 - the resignalling project was interrupted by the Second World War and not completed until after nationalisation). Thirsk signal box itself, after various alterations over the course of its life, eventually closed around 1989 under the York IECC signalling scheme.
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