Whitby West Cliff railway station

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Coordinates: 54°29′16″N 0°37′41″W / 54.487708°N 0.628000°W / 54.487708; -0.628000
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Whitby West Cliff
North Eastern Railway
Key dates
3 December 1883Opened
12 June 1961Closed
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Whitby West Cliff railway station was a

Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. It was one of two stations serving Whitby; the other was Whitby Town railway station, which served the lines to Malton and Battersby
.

West Cliff closed on 12 June 1961 meaning trains from Scarborough had to reverse at Prospect Hill Junction to go to Whitby Town.

History

The station was opened in December 1883, when the extension from Loftus opened southwards towards Whitby.[1] South of the station, an incline allowed trains to descend to the railway station in Whitby town. In July 1885, a second line from the south was opened which spanned the River Esk over Larpool Viaduct. This line was the Scarborough and Whitby Railway and meant that trains for Whitby from Scarborough, had to reverse at West Cliff station to enable them to terminate in Whitby Town railway station. This procedure continued until 1961, when the trains reversed at Prospect Hill Junction.[2]

It originally had nameboards that displayed West Cliff only. This was changed as many people did not know that they had arrived in Whitby, and so travelled on to Hawsker, the next station down the line.[3]

West Cliff was 15 miles (24 km) south of Loftus and 21.5 miles (34.6 km) north of Scarborough.[4] Whitby Town station was 1 mile 36 chains (2.3 km) east of West Cliff via a loop line that went through Prospect Hill and Bog Hall junctions.[5] From West Cliff to Prospect Hill was a downhill gradient of 1-in-60, and from Prospect Hill to Bog Hall was 1-in-52.[6]

Although the station was built with a goods yard (at the north eastern end of the southbound platform),

Sentinel steam railcars.[12] This led to the LNER converting the horse dock at the south end of the station into a third platform.[13][9]

The line north from West Cliff closed in May 1958 and thereafter, the station was the reversing location for trains between Whitby Town and Scarborough.[14] The station closed completely in June 1961. Services for the Scarborough and Whitby Line reversed at Prospect Hill Junction until closure of that line in 1965.[15]

After closure, the site was used as a storage facility and then as offices for the local water board.

Beeching axe.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ Bairstow 2008, p. 111.
  2. ISBN 978-1871233193
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  3. ISBN 0860670791
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  4. ISBN 1-85260-072-1
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  5. ^ Hoole 1983, p. 57.
  6. ^ Bairstow 2008, p. 62.
  7. ISBN 1-872074-63-4
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  8. OCLC 912948513
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  9. ^ a b Hoole 1983, p. 54.
  10. ISBN 0-7153-6439-1
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  11. ^ Bairstow 2008, p. 81.
  12. ISBN 978-1-84868-668-7
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  13. ^ Bairstow 2008, pp. 74–81.
  14. ^ Hoole 1983, p. 56.
  15. ISBN 978-1871233193
    .
  16. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5
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  17. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5
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  18. ISBN 978-1-4456-0429-9
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Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Sandsend
Line and station closed 		 
WR&MU
   Whitby Town
Line closed, station open
Hawsker
Line and station closed 		 
Scarborough & Whitby Railway
   Terminus
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