Milford Sidings

Milford Sidings

66592 passes Milford Sidings with a coal train
Location
Location	South Milford, North Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53°46′18″N 1°14′14″W / 53.7718°N 1.2371°W / 53.7718; -1.2371
OS grid	SE504308
Characteristics
Owner	Network Rail
Type	Wagon storage sidings
Roads	11 dead end sidings, 9 through sidings
History
Opened	1983
BR region	Eastern

v t e Railways around Milford Sidings
Legend
to Church Fenton Sherburn-in-Elmet to Hambleton Junction Former marshalling yard Gascoigne Wood terminal Former marshalling yard Gascoigne Wood Junction South Milford to Micklefield Milford North Junction 6 through sidings 1 through siding/loop 3 through sidings 5 dead-end sidings 6 dead-end sidings Milford Junction Milford Junction Monk Fryston Burton Salmon to Castleford to Ferrybridge and Knottingley

Milford Sidings are a set of railway sidings in South Milford, North Yorkshire, England. The railways through the site were initially opened in 1834 and 1840, when transfer and marshalling yards opened too, which handled mostly coal. However, the current sidings were developed in the 1980s to function as layover (staging in railway parlance)^[1] sidings for coal trains to and from the Aire Valley power stations. The sidings have access to several railway lines radiating in almost all directions.

With the drawdown of coal-fired power stations in line with UK government directives, the sidings have been used less due to the loss of coal trains. However, they are still used to stage other freight trains.