Whitley Bridge railway station line to be put through the formal closure process. The line is however also used for freight traffic to/from Drax Power Station. Whitley Bridge railway station Whitley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Eggborough and Whitley in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is east of . It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1848, on their line between and Goole via . The station is unmanned and has only basic amenities – no permanent buildings remain other than standard glass and metal shelters on each platform. There is a single
Drax, North Yorkshire born at Darlton, Notts. and became a wealthy shipper in Kingston upon Hull. Two years later, Read's will endowed the school at Drax and founded further grammar schools at Tuxford in Notts. and Corby Glen in Lincolnshire. Read also funded the building of six almshouses in Drax for elderly people, stipulating that they should be for three men and three women. Drax had two railway stations: both are now closed. Drax Hales railway station was on the North Eastern Railway's (NER) Selby to Goole Line: British Railways closed it in 1964. Drax Abbey was on the Hull and Barnsley Railway