York Historic Environment Record

Following the creation of the North Eastern Railway, the Company gradually rationalised its many workshops concentrating locomotive construction and major repairs at Darlington, wagon-building at Shildon and Darlington, and carriage-building and major repairs at York.
In the later years of British Rail, York became one of very few major train-building workshops left in Britain, and constructed vehicles for export as well as the home market. However, it was fundamentally reliant on home orders, and a three-year moratorium on these in the run-up to BR privatisation led the owners, ABB Rail Vehicles, to decide on closure in 1995.

Dr Bill Fawcett, John A Ives and Alison Sinclair, 2013, YORK CENTRAL AUDIT OF HERITAGE ASSETS,NOVEMBER 2013 (Report). SYO1457.