Scalby railway station

Former railway station in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England

54°18′03″N 0°26′29″W / 54.300800°N 0.441391°W / 54.300800; -0.441391Grid referenceTA015905Platforms1Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyScarborough & Whitby RailwayPre-groupingNorth Eastern RailwayKey dates16 July 1885Opened2 March 1953Closed for regular passenger services1964Closed completely

Location

Scalby railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway.

History

The station opened on 16 July 1885, and served the village of Scalby.^[1] It was situated immediately north of Scalby Viaduct and had a single platform, a goods bay, and another siding.^[2]

The station closed to regular traffic on 2 March 1953,^[1] the station building was then converted into a camping cottage. Two camping coaches were positioned here by the North Eastern Region from 1954 to 1956 and four coaches were here from 1957 until 1964.^[3] Occasional trains stopped for users of these facilities until final closure in 1964, Quick (2022) notes that two or three trains each way had definite calls in the working timetable of June 1961.^[1]

In 1974 the station was completely demolished, and a road called Chichester Close has been built on the site since. Some of the stonework has been reused as corner stones, embedded in the brickwork, of houses in this street.^[4]

Scalby Viaduct still stands, and has four spans of 35 feet (11 m) each.^[5]

Accidents and incidents

On 24 April 1956, BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T No. 80119 was derailed when the track spread under it during shunting. An instruction banning heavy locomotives from the goods yard had been forgotten.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 402. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
^ "Scalby station on OS 25 inch map Yorkshire LXXVII.12 (Scalby; Scarborough)". National Library of Scotland. 1892. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
^ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 33 & 40. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
^ Nick Catford. "Scalby station". Disused stations.
^ Lidster, J. Robin (1985). The Scarborough & Whitby Railway : a centenary volume : a pictorial and documentary record celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of a Yorkshire coast railway. Nelson: Hendon. 10. ISBN 0-86067-097-X.
^ Hoole, Ken (1983). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 32. ISBN 0-906899-07-9.