03-04-2025
Forgotten York: remember the old railway halt on the edge of Rowntree's factory?
WHO remembers when the railway stopped at Rowntree's?
As our archive photo shows, the Rowntree factory at Haxby Road, once had it's own stop.
The image - from The Press' own photo archive - shows the former Rowntree Halt station, which would have been familiar to generations of Rowntree workers.
Rowntree Halt was a minor unmanned railway stop on the Foss Islands branch line in York.
Located on the southern edge of the Rowntree's chocolate factory, the station was opened in 1927 by the London and North Eastern Railway to provide a low-volume, not publicly advertised passenger service to the Rowntree factory for workers commuting from areas south of York such as Selby and Doncaster.
The halt itself was little more than a single short platform located a few yards west of a signal-protected siding that allowed freight directly into the factory complex.
Passenger services ceased in 1988, and the station was officially closed on 8 July 1989.
The line was dismantled and turned into a cycle track.
Do you remember the Rowntree Halt?
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IF you love delving into York's past and seeing photos and reading stories from yesteryear then make sure you check The Press every day for its regular nostalgia stories. And don't miss our eight-page nostalgia supplement every Wednesday in the paper.
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It would be great to see your old photos of York - and they don't have to be from centuries ago. We all love seeing old photos from our recent past, and some of our more popular stories with readers date from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
