Staithes railway station

Staithes railway station was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 3 December 1883,[1] and served the villages of Staithes and Dalehouse in North Yorkshire, England.

Staithes
The former station buildings at Staithes
LocationStaithes, Scarborough
England
Coordinates54.555300°N 0.793000°W / 54.555300; -0.793000
Grid referenceNZ781185
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyWR&MUR
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Key dates
1883Opened
1958Closed

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1939 and may have had a coach visiting in 1934 and 1935.[2] A coach was also positioned here by North Eastern Region of British Railways from 1954 to 1958.[3]

The station closed on 5 May 1958.[4]

The Staithes Viaduct, circa 1915. It was demolished in 1960.

The station building is now a private residence and is located next to the modern-day main car park for the village. It was here that the railway passed over the Staithes Viaduct, built in 1875 but not opened to railway traffic until 1883 along with the rest of the railway. The viaduct was built of iron and concrete and was 152 feet (46 m) high and 790 feet (240 m) in length.[5] Due to the strong winds in the area, trains could only cross at 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) in windy conditions, and the viaduct was closed completely in high winds.[6] The viaduct was demolished in 1960 and a plaque near the site of the viaduct details the history of it and the railway.

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Grinkle   Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway   Hinderwell

References
  1. "Lost viaducts brought the coast together". Whitby Gazette. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  3. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. pp. 38 & 40. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
  4. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society.
  5. "Tunnels and viaducts of the Whitby-Loftus line". www.forgottenrelics.co.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  6. Staithes Town Web http://www.staithes-town.info/history/railway_in_staithes.htm

Further reading
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010). 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find.' A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 (M.A. thesis). University of York.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (2012). The Whitby-Loftus Line. Jet Coast Development Trust. ISBN 978-0-9567890-1-3.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2013). "The Whitby - Loftus line: "a more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find." Is this really the case?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (216): 33–46.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2013). "The Viaducts and Tunnels of the Whitby-Loftus Line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (218): 33–47.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (January 2014). "The Tunnels and Viaducts of the Whitby-Loftus line". Forgotten Relics of an Enterprising Age.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2014). "A Difficult Year in the History of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (219): 32–41.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2014). "Closing a line before Beeching: the end of the Whitby-Loftus line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (221): 149–58.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2015). "The importance of fieldwork in researching railway history". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (224): 377–87.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2016). "The Suez Specials". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (169): 19–27.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2017). "How the Coast Line could have been saved". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (172): 32–33.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2018). "The costs of working a failing branch line: a financial study of the Whitby - Loftus line, 1910-1933". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (233): 351–62.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (2019). The Whitby-Loftus Line. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-542-2. Locomotion Papers 244.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (Autumn 2019). "Seconds from disaster". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (179): 88–92.


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