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It carried trains from 1878 to 1968, with the last passenger train crossing on September 5, 1964 and the last goods train in May 1968 by the Stephenson Locomotive Society, when the branch was closed by the Beeching cuts.
This section of the former Midland Railway's main line to Manchester was closed to passengers in 1968 (the same year mainline steam came to an end) as a consequence of the Beeching cuts and the recent electrification of the West coast route from London Euston to Manchester.
The station on the York to Beverley railway line was opened in 1847 and closed in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts.
The ground, as the name suggests, was once close to the town's railway station, situated on the Caledonian Railway's main line from Aberdeen to Glasgow and London, but this station was closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching cuts.