Goathland Bank Top railway station

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Goathland Bank Top
Goathland (Incline Top) station site today.jpg
The site of the station, c. 2000
General information
Location Goathland, Scarborough
England
Coordinates 54°24′07″N0°43′08″W / 54.402°N 0.719°W / 54.402; -0.719
Grid reference NZ831015
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Whitby and Pickering Railway
Key dates
26 May 1836Opened
1 July 1865Closed

Goathland Bank Top was a short lived, early, railway station in Goathland, North Yorkshire, England. The station at the top of the Beckhole Incline (sometimes referred to as the Goathland Incline) was opened with the opening throughout of the Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) on Thursday 26 May 1836. [1] The station closed with the opening of the NER's Deviation line (which bypassed the by then anachronistic cable worked incline) on 1 July 1865. [2] Thus, the station had a life of less than thirty years. A new Goathland station (initially called Goathland Mill to distinguish it from the earlier station) was opened on the deviation line. [3]

Contents

Whitby and Pickering Railway (1836-45)

'Ash Tree Cottage, the W&P's overseers house situated at the top of the incline Ash Tree Cottage.jpg
'Ash Tree Cottage, the W&P's overseers house situated at the top of the incline

Little is known about what facilities the horse-worked W&P provided at Goathland, they did build an 'overseers cottage' at the head of the incline, that cottage survives, now known as 'Ash Tree Cottage', it is probably the only surviving inhabited W&P structure which is now a grade II listed building that passed into private ownership in 1913. [4]

The incline was built with a 1-in-15 gradient to the design of the W&P's Engineer George Stephenson and was self-acting with the descending traffic hauling up the ascending traffic. [5] The descending coach or wagons was given additional weight by means of a wheeled water butt, which was filled before descending, then drained at the bottom and returned to the top with the next ascending load. [6] The machinery for working the inclined plane was obtained from Robert Stephenson at a cost of £135 14s 6d. The original rope for the incline manufactured by Mr. Henry Simpson was 1,500 yards long and 5.5 inches in circumference. [7]

The W&P built a stable 'at the top of Goathland Inclined Plane', the directors accepting a tender from a Mr. Langdale of £230. The York & North Midland Railway (Y&NM) replaced the water gravity system with a stationary steam engine in 1846. [8]

Preservation

A historic Rail Trail follows the original alignment gives away the one-time presence of a railway. [9] A track traces the original rail alignment, the former W&P cottage remains at the top of the incline. [10]

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References

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  2. ↑ Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways around Whitby (3 ed.). Halifax: Martin Bairstow. p. 17. ISBN   978-1-871944-34-1.
  3. ↑ Burgess, Neil (2011). The lost railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 21. ISBN   9781840335552.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Ash Tree Cottage, Goathland (Grade II) (1316176)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Haigh, A.; Joy, David (1979). Yorkshire railways : including Cleveland and Humberside. Clapham, N. Yorkshire: Dalesman. p. 6. ISBN   0-85206-553-1.
  6. ↑ Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale. Todmorden: Bellcode Books. p. 4. ISBN   9781871233193.
  7. ↑ Tomlinson, William Weaver (1915). The North Eastern Railway, its rise and development. London: Longmans & Co. p. 302. OCLC   854595777.
  8. ↑ Vanns, Michael (2017). "Early Days to Best Years". The North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Barnsley: Pen & Sword. p. 17. ISBN   9781473892088.
  9. ↑ "Walks". nymr.co.uk. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Goathland Conservation Area Character Appraisal" (PDF). northyorkmoors.org.uk. November 2017. p. 72. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
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