Weaverthorpe railway station
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Weaverthorpe railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Sherburn on the York to Scarborough Line and was opened on 5th July 1845 by the York & North Midland Railway. It closed on 22nd September 1930. The station was originally named Sherburn, but was renamed Wykeham (after a village 3 miles distant) on 1st April 1874, to avoid confusion with three other stations also named Sherburn. The name changed again after the opening of a station in Wykeham itself (on the Forge Valley Line), and the station became 'Weaverthorpe' on 1st May 1882.
Passengers wishing to go to Weaverthorpe would have been very disappointed as that village was located 5 miles distant, over the Wolds escarpment!
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