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.

The Ordnance Survey map of 1936 and the Carriage Works site plan of 1941 both demonstrate the growing range of ancillary structures which were adjoined to the original Mess Room (1888), including an extension to the Time Office. This womens dining room was added during WWII. (Alan Baxter 2024)

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

*Alan Baxter, 2024, Alliance House & canteen building (Unpublished document). SYO3109.