York railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | York |
| Local authority | City of York |
| Coordinates | 53°57′30″N 1°05′35″W / 53.9583°N 1.0930°WCoordinates: 53°57′30″N 1°05′35″W / 53.9583°N 1.0930°W |
| Grid reference | SE596517 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | YRK |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains East Coast |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 11 |
| DfT category | A |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 7.581 million |
| – Interchange | 1.203 million |
| 2012/13 |
7.721 million |
| – Interchange | 1.179 million |
| 2013/14 |
8.223 million |
| – Interchange | 1.190 million |
| 2014/15 |
8.586 million |
| – Interchange | 1.386 million |
| 2015/16 |
8.848 million |
| – Interchange | 1.419 million |
| History | |
| 1877 | Opened |
| 1909 | Extended |
| Listed status | |
| Listing grade | II* |
| Entry number | 1256554 |
| Added to list | 1 July 1968 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at York from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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York railway station is on the East Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom, serving the city of York, North Yorkshire. It is 188 miles 40 chains (303.4 km) down-line from London King's Cross and on the main line it is situated between Doncaster to the south and Thirsk to the north. Its three-letter station code is YRK.
Despite the small size of the city, York's station is one of the most important on the British railway network because of its role as a key junction approximately halfway between London and Edinburgh. It is approximately five miles north of the point where the Cross Country and TransPennine Express routes via Leeds join the main line, connecting Scotland and the North East, North West, Midlands and southern England. The junction was historically a major site for rolling stock manufacture, maintenance and repair.
The first York railway station was a temporary wooden building on Queen Street outside the walls of the city, opened in 1839 by the York and North Midland Railway. It was succeeded in 1841, inside the walls, by what is now York old railway station. In due course, the irksome requirement that through trains between London and Newcastle needed to reverse out of the old York station to continue their journey necessitated the construction of a new through station outside the walls. This was the present station, designed by the North Eastern Railway architects Thomas Prosser and William Peachey, which opened in 1877. It had 13 platforms and was at that time the largest station in the world. As part of the new station project, the Royal Station Hotel (now The Royal York Hotel), designed by Peachey, opened in 1878.
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