Husthwaite Gate railway station

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Husthwaite Gate
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Old railway track at Husthwaite Gate looking east; the row of bricks indicates the edge of the platform, September 2007
General information
Location Husthwaite, North Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 54°10′28″N1°12′37″W / 54.174518°N 1.210406°W / 54.174518; -1.210406
Grid reference SE516717
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company North Eastern Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
c.1856opened
31 January 1953closed for passengers
7 August 1964 (1964-08-07)closed for freight

Husthwaite Gate railway station is a disused railway station in North Yorkshire, England. It served the nearby village of Husthwaite.

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When the Thirsk and Malton Line was completed in 1853, there was originally no station near Husthwaite. However, a single platform on the north side of the single line was provided by 1856, east of the crossing with the minor road from Husthwaite to Carlton Husthwaite, known as Elphin Bridge Lane. [1] A stationmaster's house, incorporating the ticket office, was built on the opposite side of the crossing. [2]

A goods siding in front of the stationmaster's house was built at the cost of Sir George Wombwell, a local landowner. In 1872, it was taken into public use and Wombwell's outlay was refunded. [1] In 1880, a 200 yards (180 m) tramway was built to connect the goods siding to Angram Wood, north east of the station. This was used to forward timber from Angram to Helmsley for processing. The gauge of the tramway is unknown. [3]

In 1856, a single train plied the route between Pilmoor and Malton three times daily. This had risen to four trains a day by 1895. [4] In 1906, services on the line amounted to six trains each way, five of which went south to York and one which ran north to Pilmoor and offered a connecting service via the Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway to Harrogate. [5]

The station was closed to passengers in January 1953, but the line was still used by long-distance passenger traffic and excursions. [6] It remained as a goods station but became an unmanned delivery siding from October 1963. The station was closed in August 1964, having latterly been serviced with trains only from the east. An accident in March 1963 on the East Coast Main Line damaged Sessay Wood Junction and it was never repaired. [7] The line was closed in 1964, and the track pulled up in the following year. A brick course of the platform remains. The stationmaster's house is a private dwelling, [1] and the station sidings area is now a campsite. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Disused Stations: Husthwaite Gate Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2019.
  2. Ellis, Norman (1995). North Yorkshire railway stations. Ochiltree: Stenlake. p. 47. ISBN   1-872074-63-4.
  3. Howat 1988, p. 9.
  4. Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 97. ISBN   978-1-85306-918-5.
  5. Bradshaw 1906 at the Internet Archive
  6. Bairstow 2008, p. 112.
  7. Bairstow 2008, p. 68.
  8. Wills, Dixe (15 April 2017). "Pitch perfect: the UK's best tiny campsites". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 May 2019.

Sources

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Pilmoor
Line open, station closed
  North Eastern Railway
Gilling and Pickering Line
  Coxwold
Line and station closed
  North Eastern Railway
Thirsk and Malton Line