York and North Midland Railway

The York and North Midland Railway was an English railway company, authorized by an 1836 act of Parliament and opened in 1839 to connect York with the Leeds and Selby Railway. Chaired by the financier George Hudson, known as the Railway King, the company expanded through the 1840s to reach Hull, Scarborough, Whitby, Market Weighton and Harrogate, but an investigation into inflated traffic figures and misclassified capital spending forced Hudson's resignation as chairman in 1849. On 31 July 1854 the company merged with the Leeds Northern Railway and the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway to form the North Eastern Railway, then the largest railway company in Britain with more than 700 route miles. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/