Husthwaite Gate railway station

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

Husthwaite Gate
Old railway track at Husthwaite Gate looking east; the row of bricks indicates the edge of the platform
Location	Husthwaite, Hambleton England
Coordinates	54.174518°N 1.210406°W
Grid reference	SE516717
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
c. 1856	opened
31 January 1953	closed for passengers
7 August 1964	closed for freight

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]

References

1. "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

• Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways Around Whitby; Volume One (2 ed.). Farsley: Bairstow. ISBN 978-1-871944-34-1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Howat, Patrick (1988). The Railways of Ryedale and the Vale of Mowbray. Nelson: Hendon Publishing. ISBN 0 86067 111 9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Disused stations listing for Husthwaite Gate

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