Staithes railway station

Staithes
The former station buildings at Staithes
Location
Place	Staithes
Area	Scarborough
Coordinates	54°33′19″N 0°47′35″W / 54.555300°N 0.793000°WCoordinates: 54°33′19″N 0°47′35″W / 54.555300°N 0.793000°W
Grid reference	NZ781185
Operations
Original company	WR&MUR
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
1883	Opened
1958	Closed
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Staithes 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 Staithes and Dalehouse in North Yorkshire, England. It closed on 5 May 1958.

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, but due to the strong winds in the area trains could only cross at 20 mph in windy conditions, and the viaduct was closed completely in high winds.^[1] 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. Staithes Town Web http://www.staithes-town.info/history/railway_in_staithes.htm

• 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

• Staithes station on navigable 1955 O. S. map