Selby and Mid-Yorkshire Union Railway
1879 incorporated to build a line from Church Fenton to Wistow. Length 5 miles 4 furlongs and 6.9 chains. (Formerly Church Fenton, Cawood and Wistow Railway)
1882 Authorised to extend the line from Wistow, through Selby to Drax
1883 Name change to Selby and Mid-Yorkshire Union Railway