Helmsley railway station

Helmsley railway station served the market town of Helmsley in North Yorkshire from 1871 until 1964, although the regular passenger service (and the line from Kirkbymoorside east to Pickering) ceased in 1953.

Helmsley
Helmsley railway station in 2006
LocationHelmsley, Ryedale
England
Coordinates54.244461°N 1.053900°W / 54.244461; -1.053900
Grid referenceSE617836
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway (UK)
Key dates
9 October 1871opened
2 February 1953closed
10 August 1964closed for freight
The station buildings in 1995

History

The line from Gilling to Helmsley opened on 9 October 1871.[1] The occasion was marked by a dinner held at the Black Swan Hotel.

The extension to Kirby Moorside opened on 1 January 1874.[2]

From here to Pickering the line ran almost parallel to today's A170 trunk road.

There was no railway over the area between Helmsley and Thirsk via Sutton Bank. Instead, there was a route south of Helmsley that passed through a cutting at Caulkeys Bank, Nunnington, and then turned west towards Gilling, where the Thirsk and Malton (T&M) Line from Pilmoor (at the East Coast Main Line) was met. To get to Thirsk, trains would have had to travel to Gilling and Pilmoor first, turning north.

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1935 to 1938 and possibly one for some of 1934.[3]

The station closed on 2 February 1953 but may have been used for excursion trains afterwards until the line closed on 10 August 1964.[4][5]

References
  1. "Helmsley. Opening of the Railway". York Herald. England. 14 October 1871. Retrieved 26 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. "Opening of the Railway between Helmsley and Kirby Moorside". York Herald. England. 3 January 1874. Retrieved 26 February 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  4. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society.
  5. Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 28 (ref 1374). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Nunnington   Gilling and Pickering (G&P) Line   Nawton


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