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== History ==
Opened by the [[Midland Railway]], it became part of the [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]] during the [[Railways Act 1921|Grouping]] of 1923. Passing on to the [[Eastern Region of British Railways]] on [[nationalisation]] in 1948, it was then closed by the [[British Railways Board]] as part of the [[Beeching Axe]] in March 1965. It was demolished several years later and the site is now a housing estate. The bridge and abutments have also been demolished, but an embankment remains.
== Preservation ==
There are plans in the future to extend the [[Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway]] back to [[Addingham]] to a replica LMS style station on the embankment a few metres near the original station site on a
The picture showing Addingham Station Fisheries is where the railway bridge crossed Addingham Main Street. The actual Addingham station was about 200yards further up the road on the left hand side.
▲The picture showing Addingham Station Fisheries is where the railway bridge crossed Addingham Main Street. The actual Addingham station was about 200yards further up the road on the left hand side. Unfortunately this has houses built there but the original goods yard is still used as an entrance drive to the houses built there and some of the old boundary walls still exist from Victoria terrace side.
== References ==
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