Harrogate railway station

Harrogate railway station serves the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. Located on the Harrogate Line it is 18.25mi north of Leeds. Northern operate the station and provide nearly all passenger train services except a daily Virgin Trains East Coast service to and from London King's Cross.HistoryThe station was opened by the North Eastern Railway on 1 August 1862. It was designed by the architect Thomas Prosser and was the first building in Harrogate built of brick and had two platforms. Before it opened (and the associated approach lines), the town's rail routes had been somewhat fragmented - the York and North Midland Railway branch line from via Tadcaster had a terminus in the town (see below), but the Leeds Northern Railway main line between Leeds and bypassed it to the east to avoid costly engineering work to cross the Crimple Valley and the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway from terminated at. Once the individual companies had become part of the NER, the company concentrated all lines at a new single depot.A storm in November 1866 caused a chimney stack to fall through the station roof causing considerable damage. In 1873, a footbridge was added.