remodelled again in 1988 as part of the resignalling scheme that was carried out prior to the electrification of the ECML shortly afterwards by British Rail. This resulted in several bay platforms (mainly on the eastern side) being taken out of service and the track to them removed. Consequently, the number of platforms was reduced from 15 to 11. At the same time a new signalling centre (York IECC) was commissioned on the western side of the station to control the new layout and also take over the function of several other signal boxes on the main line. The IECC here now supervises the main line from Temple Hirst (near Doncaster) through to , along with sections of the various routes branching from it. It has also (since 2001–2) taken over responsibility for the control area of the former power box at and thus signals trains as far away as and . In 2006–7, to improve facilities for bus, taxi and car users as well as pedestrians and cyclists, the approaches to the station were reorganised. The former motive power depot and goods station now house the National Railway Museum. The station was renovated in 2009. Platform 9 has been reconstructed and extensive lighting alterations were put in place. New automated ticket gates (similar to those in Leeds) were planned, but the City of York Council wished to avoid spoiling the historic nature of the station. The then operator National Express East Coast planned to appeal the decision but the plans were scrapped altogether upon handover to East Coast. Stationmasters Edward Oates ca 1850–1880 William Lackenby 1880–1890 John Bradford Harper 1890–1893 Samuel Holliday 1893–1897 (afterwards stationmaster at Newcastle) James Brown 1897–1902 William Thompson 1902–1913 (afterwards stationmaster at Newcastle) Thomas Clements Humphrey 1913–1923 (afterwards stationmaster at Newcastle) Frank Wilfred Wheddon 1923–1926 Harry A. Butcher 1926–1932 (afterwards stationmaster at Newcastle) George W. Pattinson 1932–1939 Edwin Oliver Wright 1941–1946 G. W. Anson 1946–1949 W. H. Burton 1949–1950 (afterwards station master at Newcastle) Harold Gardner 1950–1953 Accidents and incidents On 31 March 1920, a passenger train was derailed as it entered platform 8. On 5 August 1958, a passenger train crashed into the buffers at platform 12. On 18 January 2006, a freight train wagon derailed on points entering platform 3 before re-railing 400 sleepers later causing extensive damage to trackworks through the station. The derailment happened due to faulty suspension on one of