York Wagon Works

[map 1][2] The building was extended westward in 1864, to give a production capacity of 100 wagons per week.

[3] After nationalisation into British Railways under the Transport Act 1947 further rationalisation for wagon production took place.

[6] After Richard Beeching became chairman of the British Transport Commission (1961) all workshops came under centralised control from regional control, and a new report was commissioned,[note 3] which recommended a similar pattern of closure as the 1959 report; York Wagon Works was to close in 1963.

[citation needed] Between 1997 and 2002 wagon manufacture was undertaken for English Welsh and Scottish Railway by Thrall Europa (Thrall Car Manufacturing Company) at the Holgate Road carriage works, York.

[9][10] Two minor buildings were demolished as part of a construction of an earth bund south of the main works, c. 2011.