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| The Route of the Former Scarborough and Whitby Railway, 1885-1965. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Staion House Cloughton is unique in that it is the only former station building on the Scarborough to Whitby railway line offering accommodation. It offers a fascinating glimpse into a time when steam and railways were an important link in the life of the people of th e North Yorkshire coast. | This page offers a brief glimpse back into the history of the railway and has some rare photographs of some of it's more stunning features. Anyone wishing to find out more about the railway and this historic part of North Yorkshire will find The Station House and excellent base for your explorations. | ||||||||||||||||
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| The Scarborough and Whitby Railway.
The Scarborough and Whitby Railway was well known to many thousands of tourists who spent their holidays on this part of the Yorkshire coast between 1885 and 1965. Before that time the coast between the two towns was rarely visited by the holidaymaker and Robin Hood's Bay was a relatively un-known fishing village. This was soon to change with the advent of the railway and prophetic words were printed in the Scarborough Gazette in 1884 when, in reference to the comin railway, it reported: "Robin Hood's Bay has hitherto been almost inaccessible from Scarborough, and will ere long undoubtedly develop into a favourite watering place". The railway line also became a favourite haunt of local railway photographers for whom the sight of a double headed excursion train stopping on its way up the steep gradient out of Robin Hood's Bay to Ravenscar was unforgettable. Surprisingly though very little has been written about the line and many aspects of its history have remained obscure. This part of the web site for the Station House is intended to give a brief glimpse of its past. The Railway was opened on the 16th July 1885. The first suggestion to link Scarborough and Whitby by rail cam e in 1848, three years after the opening of the York-Scarborough line which branched out at Rillington to connect up to the hitherto independent Whitby-Pickering line. |
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| Larpool Viaduct Whitby- A DMU heads into Whitby Town under the Viaduct after travelling across it. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Ravenscar Station- the highest point on the railway line at 631 feet above sea level. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Acknowledgements. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Robin Hoods Bay Station with it's four camping coaches avaible for hire to visitors. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The text on this page and the map of the railway route is taken from the book 'The Scarborough and Whitby railway' by Scarborough author and historian J. Robin Lidster. Robin's own web site and specialist inerest with many more North Yorkshire images on can be seen at www.magiclanternman.com |
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| Staintondale Station, where in October 1885 the first consignment of mineral traffic on the line left from. | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Station House Station Lane Clocughton Scarborough North Yorkshire YO13 OAD |
Tel (+44) 01723 870896 E-mail: cloughtonstation@yahoo.co.uk Web www.cloughtonstation.co.uk |
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