Skinningrove railway station

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Skinningrove
Skinningrove railway station (site), Yorkshire (geograph 4488842).jpg
Site of the former station (2015)
General information
Location Skinningrove, Redcar and Cleveland
England
Coordinates 54°33′37″N0°54′19″W / 54.560400°N 0.905200°W / 54.560400; -0.905200 Coordinates: 54°33′37″N0°54′19″W / 54.560400°N 0.905200°W / 54.560400; -0.905200
Grid reference NZ708188
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company WR&MUR
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1875Opened as Carlin How
1903Renamed Skinningrove
1952Closed to regular passenger trains
1958Closed to all traffic

Skinningrove railway station was on the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1875, and served the villages of Skinningrove and Carlin How in North Yorkshire, England. [1] It was originally named "Carlin How", but was renamed on 1 October 1903 by the North Eastern Railway. [2] It had no goods service, but a zig zag track branched off just outside the station from a point on the main line towards Saltburn, [3] serving the Loftus Mines in the valley below, where ironstone was mined. [4] This closed in 1958. [3] Further north towards Brotton, near the village of Carlin How, the tracks serving Skinningrove Steelworks branch off the line. [4]

Skinningrove station closed to regular passenger traffic on 30 June 1952, but retained a workmen's service to the Skinningrove Steelworks until 5 May 1958. Very little remains of the former station. [3]

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References

  1. Suggitt, Gordon (2005). Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 68. ISBN   978-1-85306-918-5.
  2. Hoole, K (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newt Abbot: David & Charles. p. 189. ISBN   0-7153-8527-5.
  3. 1 2 3 Ken Mell. "Disused Stations: Skinningrove Station" . Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  4. 1 2 Sheet NZ71 & Parts of NZ72. Chessington, Surrey: Ordnance Survey. 1954.
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Brotton
Line open, station closed
  North Eastern Railway
WR&MU
  Loftus
Line open, station closed