Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station

Scarborough Londesborough Road
Location
Place	Scarborough
Area	Scarborough
Coordinates	54°16′30″N 0°24′38″W / 54.275114°N 0.410500°WCoordinates: 54°16′30″N 0°24′38″W / 54.275114°N 0.410500°W
Grid reference	TA034877
Operations
Original company	North Eastern Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
History
8 June 1908	opened
25 August 1963	closed for passengers
4 July 1966	closed completely
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Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station was built as an excursion station to ease operating pressure at Scarborough Central in the holiday resort of Scarborough. Excursion trains from all over the country could be routed into it rather than the main Central station to disembark their passengers before heading onwards to the Whitby branch line to be stabled in carriage sidings at Northstead/Gallows Close on the town's northern outskirts. Return services would follow the same route in the opposite direction to load up before departure.

It was opened on 8 June 1908 by the North Eastern Railway,^[1] but it was not advertised in public timetables until 1933. It was then closed to passenger trains by British Railways on 25 August 1963 but used for stabling coaching stock until its official closure, on 4 July 1966. ^[2]

The station building and remains of the 14 coach long platform can still be seen from trains on the Yorkshire Coast Line and on the York to Scarborough section of the North TransPennine route on the west side of the tracks approaching Scarborough.

References

1. Tomlinson, William (1914). The North Eastern railway; its Rise and Development. Green. p. 763. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
2. Body, G (1988). PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 149. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.

External links

• Scarborough Londesborough Road station (lower left) on navigable 1947 O. S. map
• "Station Name: Scarborough Londesborough Road". Disused Stations. Subterranea Britannica. Retrieved 10 December 2011.