Gilling railway station

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Gilling
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Former station building, 2009
General information
Location Gilling East, North Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 54°11′15″N1°03′32″W / 54.187400°N 1.058927°W / 54.187400; -1.058927
Grid reference SE615772
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1853opened
1953closed for regular passenger service
1964closed completely

Gilling railway station is a disused railway station in North Yorkshire, England that served the village of Gilling East. East of it, the Gilling and Pickering line branched off the Thirsk and Malton line.

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History

The station opened in 1853. [1] On 26 November 1875 [2] a horse box and cattle truck in the last train from Thirsk to Malton derailed and were overturned. Three sheep were killed and passengers in the other carriages were seriously shaken. [3]

Regular passenger services to Malton closed in 1930, between Thirsk and Pickering on 2 February 1953, but freight traffic and occasional special passenger trains continued to use the station until 27 July 1964.

Ampleforth College Tramway

Gilling was the station for passengers wishing to go to Ampleforth College, a Roman Catholic independent school near Ampleforth, and special trains would be run at the start and the end of term time. The college was equidistant between Ampleforth and Gilling Stations, but access was easier from Gilling.

On 3 August 1895 the college signed an agreement with the NER to build a tramway from Gilling station. [4] Construction of the 3 feet (0.91 m) gauge Decauville track tramway started in 1894 (a year before the agreement was signed) and it was opened by Christmas 1895 to connect Gilling with the College and its gasworks. [5] The tramway was built by Mr. White at a cost of £1,072 8s 7d (equivalent to £130,000in 2021). [6]

Open wagons were supplied to transport staff and pupils to the college from the station, but they were secondary to the main traffic which was coal for the gas boilers. Six tip wagons were provided by Alexander Penney and Sons, Engineers of London.

The line was horse-drawn throughout its history (though at least one diesel/petrol locomotive was used). For a time a winch was used using the steam engine in the mortar mill to haul wagons from the cricket pitch up hill to the building site where the monastery was being constructed.

It was closed sometime after 1923 when the college changed over to electric lighting. The exact date is not recorded but the agreement with the NER was terminated on 25 April 1929.

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References

  1. ↑ Catford, Nick. "Station Name: Gilling". Disused Stations. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Accident at Gilling – Nunnington on 26th November 1875". Railways Archive. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Near Gilling railway station" . Grantham Journal. England. 4 December 1875. Retrieved 26 February 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ Howat, Patrick (1985). "Ampleforth College Tramway" (PDF). Ampleforth Journal. 90 (2): 33–40. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  5. ↑ Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale. Bellcode Books. ISBN   9781871233-19-3.
  6. ↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.

Further reading

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Ampleforth
Line and station closed		  North Eastern Railway
Gilling and Pickering Line 		  Nunnington
Line and station closed
  North Eastern Railway
Thirsk and Malton Line 		  Hovingham
Line and station closed


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