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==Transport== [[File:A64 near Copmanthorpe - geograph.org.uk - 187995.jpg|thumb|right|A64 near Copmanthorpe taken from grade separated junction with A1237 York Outer Ring Road.]] The village is bypassed by the [[A64 road|A64]] [[Leeds]] to [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]] road. This road used to pass through the village along the route of the old Roman road along Hallcroft Lane and Top Lane. The bypass was built in 1975β76<ref name="York Bypass">{{cite web|url=http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=A64|title=York Bypass|access-date=9 June 2012}}</ref> with the grade separated junction linking Manor Heath to Askham Fields Lane and the A1237 York Outer Ring Road being built in 1987.<ref>{{cite book |title= A64 Leeds β York β Scarborough Trunk Road (Copmanthorpe Grade Separated Junction) (Trunking) Order 1987: Highways, England and Wales|last= The Stationery Office|year= 1987|publisher= The Stationery Office |location= London|isbn=978-0-11-078274-4}}</ref> The traffic lights at the end of Top Lane that used to provide access to the bypass for village residents were removed in 2002.<ref name="York Bypass"/> There was a railway station in the village that opened in 1839 on the [[York and North Midland Railway|York & North Midland line]]. The station was closed to passengers in 1959 and closed altogether in 1964.<ref name="story"/> Plans have been put forward to reopen the station along with others in the area surrounding [[York]], but these have failed to materialise.<ref>{{cite web|title=York Suburb Station Plan Derailed Again|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/archive/2004/06/18/York+Archive/7885422.York_suburb_station_plan_derailed_again/|work=The Press|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|access-date=30 May 2011}}</ref> The village is served by one regular local bus service from York, run by Connexions, [[Yorkshire Coastliner]] service, and by a service run by [[Harrogate Coach Travel]] as part of the York to [[Colton, North Yorkshire|Colton]] route.
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