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
Eggborough Methodist Hall and the Westfield Centre. Although the village is situated within the boundaries of North Yorkshire, the postal address for Eggborough is "Eggborough, Near Goole, East Yorkshire". It has a DN (Doncaster, South Yorkshire) postcode and the STD telephone code is 01977 (Pontefract, West Yorkshire). The village also has its own football team called Eggborough Eagles, which is based at the Eggborough Sports and Leisure Complex. The Eggborough Eagles was founded in 2011 by Chairman James Lancaster, Secretary Michael Corr and Manager Michael Shaughnessy. They came 4th in their first ever season recognised in the Selby and District Invitational