Sandsend railway station
| Sandsend | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Sandsend |
| Area | Scarborough |
| Coordinates | 54°30′15″N 0°40′26″W / 54.504200°N 0.674000°WCoordinates: 54°30′15″N 0°40′26″W / 54.504200°N 0.674000°W |
| Grid reference | NZ859129 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | WR&MUR |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| 1883 | Opened |
| 1958 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
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Sandsend railway station was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 3 December 1883, and served the villages of Sandsend and Lythe. It closed on 5 May 1958.[1]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kettleness | Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway | Whitby West Cliff | ||
References
- ↑ "Sandsend Railway Station". Disused Stations. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
Further reading
- 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.
External links
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