Beckhole railway station

Beckhole
Beckhole station site 1988
Location
Place	Beck Hole
Area	Scarborough
Coordinates	54°24′28″N 0°44′11″W / 54.407889°N 0.736475°WCoordinates: 54°24′28″N 0°44′11″W / 54.407889°N 0.736475°W
Grid reference	NZ821020
Operations
Original company	Whitby and Pickering Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
History
1836	Opened
1914	Closed for passengers
1951	closed for freight
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Beckhole railway station was a railway station at Beck Hole in the North Yorkshire Moors on part of the original Whitby and Pickering Railway line. It opened in 1836, and closed in 1914.

History

The station opened in 1836 as part of the Whitby and Pickering Railway.^[1] A deviation of the line was built in 1865 to avoid the use of a rope-hauled inclined plane; a short section of the replaced line from Grosmont to Beck Hole remained open as the Beck Hole branch.^[2]

From 1908 to 1914 the branch was used for summer passenger traffic from Whitby, after which the line only carried freight traffic. Freight traffic ended in 1951.^[2]

References

1. Historic England. "Beck Hole station (500195)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
2. Historic England. "North Yorkshire Moors Railway (63233)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 February 2013.

Literature

• Hoole, Ken. A regional history of the railways of Great Britain vol.4 - The North East. pp. 66–8, 78, 92.
• Potter, G.W.J. (1969). A History of the Whitby and Pickering. SR Publishing. ISBN 0-85409-553-5.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Terminus		NER Grosmont Old Branch		Grosmont
Goathland (Incline Top)		Whitby and Pickering Railway		Grosmont