Fyling Hall railway station

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Fyling Hall
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Overgrown platform at former Fyling Hall station (2015)
Location Fylingthorpe, Scarborough
England
Coordinates 54°24′45″N0°32′47″W / 54.412550°N 0.546332°W / 54.412550; -0.546332 Coordinates: 54°24′45″N0°32′47″W / 54.412550°N 0.546332°W / 54.412550; -0.546332
Grid reference NZ944028
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Scarborough and Whitby Railway
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
16 July 1885Opened
1915Closed (temporarily)
1920Re-opened
1965Closed completely
Location
Fyling Hall railway station

Fyling Hall railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and was named after Fyling Hall, near Fylingthorpe. It was a small rural station with one platform, serving a catchment of less than 200 people.

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History

Fyling Hall station opened with the whole line from Scarborough to Whitby in July 1885, [1] and was 13 miles 45 chains (21.8 km) north of Scarborough railway station, and 8 miles 8 chains (13 km) south of Whitby West Cliff railway station. [2] The station had the one platform located on the western edge of the line, with the toilets, goods store, waiting room, booking office and signal cabin all located on the platform itself. [3] A single-road goods yard was located behind the platform capable of handling livestock and general goods, although there was no permanent crane. [4] [5] [6] The station was often mis-spelt as Flying Hall in tourist literature. [2] [7]

In 1911, the North Eastern Railway assessed the station as having a catchment of 200 people, with 5,700 tickets issued in the same surveyed year. [8] It closed temporarily on 1 December 1915 [9] as a wartime economy measure, before reopening on 18 September 1920. [10] In 1934 it became a block post to allow two trains on the line between Ravenscar and Robins Hood Bay travelling at the same time in the same direction. [9] In the same year, the construction of a passing loop was proposed as Fyling Hall was one of four stations on the line which did not possess one, but the proposal was rejected because the traffic levels that would justify it only occurred over short time periods. It became an unstaffed halt from 5 May 1958 [6] with a siding remaining in use for public deliveries. [9]

Freight services were discontinued on 4 May 1964, and the station finally closed on 8 March 1965. [11] The remains of the platforms are now overgrown with vegetation, and the station has been converted to a dwelling. [9] The site is open as part of the railway path between Robin Hood's Bay and Ravenscar. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Lidster 2010, p. 3.
  2. 1 2 Hoole, K. (1983). Railways of the North York Moors : a pictorial history. Clapham: Dalesman Books. p. 47. ISBN   0-85206-731-3.
  3. ↑ 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. 37. ISBN   086067097X.
  4. ↑ Lidster 2010, p. 68.
  5. ↑ The Railway Clearing House handbook of railway stations, 1904. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1970. p. 209. ISBN   0715351206.
  6. 1 2 Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale. Todmorden: Bellcode Books. p. 76. ISBN   9781871233193.
  7. ↑ Lidster 2010, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Hoole, K. (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 164. ISBN   0-7153-8527-5.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Nick Catford. "Disused Stations: Fyling Hall Station" . Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Hoole, K. (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 204. ISBN   0-7153-8527-5.
  11. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways around Whitby : Scarborough - Whitby - Saltburn, Malton - Goathland - Whitby, Esk Valley, Forge Valley and Gilling lines. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. p. 111. ISBN   978-1-871944-34-1.
  12. ↑ Lidster 2010, p. 70.

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Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Ravenscar
Line and station closed		  North Eastern Railway
Scarborough & Whitby Railway 		  Robin Hood's Bay
Line and station closed
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