Sandsend railway station
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Sandsend railway station was a railway station on the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 3 December 1883, and served the villages of Sandsend and Lythe. It closed on 5 May 1958.[1] The station building is now a private residence.[2] It was the only station between Whitby and Loftus not to possess a passing loop.
History
Sandsend railway station was located on the Whitby, Middlesbrough and Redcar Union Railway, some 4 miles 2 chains (6.5 km) north west of Whitby West Cliff and 12 miles 64 chains (20.6 km) south east of Loftus.[3] It had a single platform, a brick station building which included the stationmaster's house, and a single siding serving coal drops (now converted into garages) behind the station.[4] Camping coaches were stationed on the siding in later years.[5][6]
A passing loop was never added because of the extensive works it would have required. This made Sandsend, the only one of the seven stations between, and including Whitby and Loftus, which did not have a passing loop.[4][7] A small goods yard with a warehouse and a 2-tonne (2.2-ton) crane was situated 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the station at East Row, towards Whitby.[2][8] This yard also had space for camping coaches, with three being normally located there.[9]
In October 2020 the Mulgrave Estate, owners of the land that the station covered, successfully applied to site railway coaches on the platform as holiday accommodation. The two railway vehicles will sit on the platform on a short section of track. One is a former passenger-carrying coach whilst the second is a converted freight wagon.[10][11]
Services
Originally, the services on the line were worked only as far as Whitby West Cliff, until the opening of the line southwards through Robin Hood's Bay to Scarborough. Between 1910 and 1922, services in the summer consisted of six daily trains each way. This had risen by 1938 to 14 each way, though in winter, the number of services could be as low as three.[12]
In popular culture
In the 1947 British comedy drama Holiday Camp, the opening shots of a train arriving at a seaside cliff-top station and passengers boarding buses outside the station were filmed at Sandsend.[13][14]
References
- Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 401. Archived from the original(PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Ken Mell. "Sandsend Railway Station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
- ^ Hoole 1983, p. 57.
- ^ ISBN 9781871233186.
- ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
- ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
- ^ Bairstow 2008, p. 32.
- ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
- ^ Bairstow 2008, p. 4.
- ISSN 2516-5348.
- ISSN 2516-5348.
- ^ Bairstow 2008, pp. 81–82.
- ^ "Holiday Camp". REELSTREETS. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ISBN 9781857943344.
Sources
- Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways Around Whitby, Volume 1. Farsley: Bairstow. ISBN 978-1-871944-34-1.
- Hoole, Ken (1983). Railways of the North York Moors. Clapham: Dalesman. ISBN 0-85206-731-3.
Further reading
- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010). 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find.' A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 (M.A. thesis). University of York.
External links
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Kettleness Line and station closed |
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Whitby West Cliff Line and station closed |