The station opened on 17 June 1847[1] by the York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway.

[2] It closed to passengers on 25 September 1950 and to goods traffic on 5 October 1964.

[6] The 1904 Railway Clearing House book, lists Brafferton as being able to handle most goods traffic, but did not have a permanent crane to load or offload goods.

However, military used the line in the First World War to a depot near Myton-on-Swale,[9] and in the Second World War, the former RAF Helperby airbase was turned into an ammunition dump for the airfields of No.

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