Pateley Bridge, 1955

A Memory of Pateley Bridge.

This view shows the old North Eastern Railway Station at Pateley Bridge, this line from Harrogate, opened in May 1862 and closed to passengers in March 1951, just three years before we went to live in Pateley Bridge, however there was a pick up goods service until 1964. There was a large pair of crossing gates at the bottom of the High Street and I can remember the lunch time goods arriving and the gates shutting to road traffic as the locomotive and wagons crossed to deliver and pick up at Stockdales Animal Feedstuffs cornmill.