Longbeck railway station

Longbeck
Northern Pacer DMU 142023 at Longbeck heading west.
Location
Place	Marske-by-the-Sea
Local authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Coordinates	54°35′22″N 1°01′52″W / 54.589370°N 1.031180°W / 54.589370; -1.031180Coordinates: 54°35′22″N 1°01′52″W / 54.589370°N 1.031180°W / 54.589370; -1.031180
Grid reference	NZ627220
Operations
Station code	LGK
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	44,976
2011/12	40,638
2012/13	40,010
2013/14	41,224
2014/15	40,386
History
Key dates	Opened 13 May 1985 (13 May 1985)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Longbeck from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Longbeck railway station serves the village of Marske-by-the-Sea and also New Marske in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Tees Valley Line and operated by Northern who provide all passenger train services. The station was opened in May 1985 by British Rail. The small signal box here supervises the junction & station area at nearby Saltburn and the freight line to Boulby as well as the adjacent level crossing.^[1]

Station facilities here have recently been improved as part of the Tees Valley Metro project. The package for this station included new fully lit waiting shelters, renewed station signage and the installation of CCTV. The long-line Public Address system (PA) has been renewed and upgraded with pre-recorded train announcements.

Services

There are two trains per hour in each direction from the station during the day, to Saltburn eastbound and Middlesbrough & Darlington westbound with some of the latter continuing to Bishop Auckland (every two hours off-peak, hourly at peak times).^[2] This drops to hourly in the evenings and on Sundays. Most services are formed using Class 142 Pacer DMUs.

Freight trains operating to and from Boulby also pass through the station.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Marske		Northern Tees Valley Line		Redcar East

Notes

↑ Hunt, J - Article in RAIL Magazine, Issue 610 (January 2009), pp.50-51
↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 44

External links

Train times and station information for Longbeck railway station from National Rail

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Longbeck railway station.

Railway stations in North Yorkshire

East Coast Main Line	(London Kings Cross) → → York Thirsk Northallerton → → (Edinburgh Waverley)

Northallerton to Eaglescliffe Line	Northallerton Yarm → (Eaglescliffe)

Tees Valley Line	(Bishop Auckland) → → Thornaby Middlesbrough South Bank British Steel Redcar Redcar Central Redcar East Longbeck Marske Saltburn

Esk Valley Line	Middlesbrough James Cook Marton Gypsy Lane Nunthorpe Great Ayton Battersby Kildale Commondale Castleton Moor Danby Leaholm Glaisdale Egton Grosmont Sleights Ruswarp Whitby

York to Scarborough Line	York Malton Seamer Scarborough

Hull to Scarborough Line	(Hull) → → Hunmanby Filey Seamer Scarborough

Harrogate Line	York Poppleton Hammerton Cattal Knaresborough Starbeck Harrogate Hornbeam Park Pannal Weeton → → (Leeds)

Leeds to Morecambe Line	(Leeds) → → Skipton Gargrave Hellifield Long Preston Giggleswick Clapham Bentham → → (Morecambe)

Settle to Carlisle Line	(Leeds) → → Skipton Gargrave Hellifield Long Preston Settle Horton-in-Ribblesdale Ribblehead → → (Carlisle)

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