Ampleforth railway station

Ampleforth railway station, served the village of Ampleforth, in the Northern English county of North Yorkshire. It was located on a line which ran from Pickering to the East Coast Main Line at Thirsk. The station was close to the noted Ampleforth College although passengers for the college used the station at Gilling further east as this was more convenient for onward transfer to the college.

Ampleforth
Station building in 1993
Location	Ampleforth, Ryedale England
Coordinates	54.1830°N 1.1207°W
Grid reference	SE574767
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
19 May 1853	Station opened
5 June 1950	Station closed

History

Opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway in May 1853,[1] then absorbed by the North Eastern Railway the station joined the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.[2]

The station was located 8 miles (13 km) east of Sessay Wood Junction on the East Coast Main Line and 12 miles (19 km) west of Malton.[3] Ampleforth station was quite small as it was some 1.75 miles (2.82 km) distant from Ampleforth village and most passengers and traffic for the college alighted at, or were loaded at, Gilling station further east, which was also the terminus for the Ampleforth College Tramway.[4] The station consisted of one running line with one platform and a small goods yard which forwarded mostly livestock and potatoes with coal being the most common inward commodity.[5]

On 30 December 1865, a Gilling to Thirsk passenger train was running non-stop through the station when it was routed off the running line and onto the station siding. At the time, some builders were loading roof tiles onto their truck and one of them was killed. It was later determined that the points were set incorrectly for the siding and as the engine was running tender first, the driver's sight of the track ahead was hindered.[6]

The station was closed by the British Transport Commission in June 1953, three years before the rest of the stations on the line were closed down.[7]

References

1. Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale. Todmorden: Bellcode Books. p. 5. ISBN 9781871233193.
2. Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost Railways of North & East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5.
3. Howat, Patrick (1988). The Railways of Ryedale and the Vale of Mowbray. Nelson: Hendon Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0-86067-111-9.
4. Young, Alan (2015). Lost Stations of Yorkshire; the North and East Ridings. Kettering: Silver Link. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-85794-453-2.
5. Hoole, Ken (1985). Railway Stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 151. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
6. "North Eastern Railway Ampleforth" (PDF). railwaysarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
7. Burgess, Neil (2011). The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 38. ISBN 9781840335552.

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map.

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