EXPLORING YORKSHIRE BY RAIL

After leaving Horsforth, the train passes through the two-mile long Bramhope Tunnel before making its next stop, and immediately the scenery outside the window becomes strikingly more rural. The first stop is at Weeton Railway Station, which isn’t actually in Weeton at all: it is in neighbouring Huby, a small but ancient village, which lacks a pub, shop or post office, although it did have the last of those until the nineteen nineties. Weeton itself is nearly a mile from the

North Yorkshire was created in 1974, and as well as including most of the North Riding (and some of the East Riding), it includes the top part of the West Riding, except for the Sedbergh Rural District, which ended up in Cumbria, and which we will be visiting later. It also includes the City of York, although York itself was never in any of the three Ridings, instead existing in isolation at their intersection. Unlike South and West Yorkshire, it doesn’t contain any Metropoli

Our final station in Calderdale serves the town of Todmorden, located on the very western edge of Yorkshire and in fact straddling the historic boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire, which is formed at this point by Walsden Water, a tributary of the River Calder. The Local Government Act 1888 moved the official boundary, bringing the whole of the town into the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of course today is falls within the Metropolitan and Ceremonial County of West York