Nidd Valley Railway

Nidd Valley Railway
Hampsthwaite railway station
Overview
Status	Closed
Stations	6
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	North Eastern Railway 1862–1923 London and North Eastern Railway 1923–1948 British Railways (N.E region) 1948 to closure
History
Opened	1 May 1862 (1862-05-01)
Closed	30 October 1964 (1964-10-30)
Technical
Track length	11.5 miles (18.5 km)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map Legend Nidd Valley Light Railway Angram Reservoir Pateley Bridge Dacre Darley Birstwith Hampsthwaite Ripley Valley Leeds–Northallerton Railway Starbeck Harrogate   to Knaresborough Harrogate Line to Leeds

The Nidd Valley Railway was a 11.5-mile (18.5 km) long single-track branch railway line that ran along the valley of the River Nidd in North Yorkshire, England. Built by the North Eastern Railway, it ran from Ripley Junction, on the Harrogate to Ripon Line, to Pateley Bridge via five intermediate stations, Ripley Valley, Hampsthwaite, Birstwith, Darley, and Dacre.^[1]