Trenholme Bar railway station

Trenholme Bar railway station was a railway station built to serve the hamlet of Trenholme Bar in North Yorkshire, England. The station was on the North Yorkshire and Cleveland's railway line between Picton and Stokesley, which opened in 1857. The line was extended progressively until it met the Whitby & Pickering Railway at Grosmont. Trenholme Bar station was closed in 1954 to passengers and four years later to goods. The station was located 9 miles (14 km) south of Stockton, and 10 miles (16 km) west of Battersby railway station.[1]

Trenholme Bar
LocationHambleton, North Yorkshire
England
Coordinates 54.4386°N 1.3235°W / 54.4386; -1.3235
Grid referenceNZ439050
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyNorth Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway
Pre-groupingNorth Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
April 1857Station opened
14 June 1954Closed to passengers
1 December 1958Closed completely

The A19 trunk road now runs through part of the station site.

History
Peter Hill Bridge, Trenholme Lane. This was just east of the station site

The station was opened with the line in 1857 when the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway Company built their line between Picton and Stokesley,[2] but just two years later, the line and stations were taken over by the North Eastern Railway (NER).[3] Whilst the station was situated in a hamlet that had a crossing over a main north/south road (later the A19),[4][5] it was the nearest railway station for Crathorne to the north and Mount Grace Priory to the south.[6][7]

A derailment occurred some 300 yards (270 m) east of the station on 7 September 1866.[8] A late-running train that was not due to stop at Trenholme Bar, left the rails and fell to the south side of the running line. The train was believed to have been travelling at between 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) and 35 miles per hour (56 km/h) at the time.[9] It caused some injuries and two deaths, with the bodies being moved to an inn at nearby Hutton Rudby, where an inquest was opened soon afterwards. The Board of Inquiry found that the engine was a goods engine which was too heavy for the line it was on and it was stated that "...the permanent way was unable to withstand the strain thus put upon it."[8][10]

Bradshaw's timetable of 1877 shows five out and back workings between Stockton railway station and Whitby, with connections advertised in Middlesbrough.[11] The timetable of 1906 shows that the station had six services eastbound from Stockton railway station towards Stokesley, with five going all the way to Whitby and one terminating at Battersby railway station. Return services were just five a day with four coming from Whitby. The other service from Whitby reversed at Battersby and went to Stockton via Middlesbrough railway station.[12] By 1946, eight years before closure, the service was down to just three stopping services each way per day, with most of the services from Whitby to Stockton reversing at Battersby and going via Middlesbrough.[1]

The station was furnished with a small goods yard on the south side of the line. It had three sidings, one with a coal depot.[13] The station closed in June 1954.[14] When the A19 road was widened in the 1970s, the dual carriageway took up some of the former station site.[15]

References
  1. Bradshaw's Official Guide for Great Britain and Ireland 1946 at the Internet Archive
  2. Hoole, K (1983). "3: Battersby - Grosmont". Railways of the North York Moors : a pictorial history. Clapham: Dalesman Books. p. 20. ISBN 0-85206-731-3.
  3. Burgess, Neil (2011). The Lost Railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 8. ISBN 9781840335552.
  4. "Trenholme | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. "TRENHOLME | As described in John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)". www.visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  6. "Genuki: CRATHORNE: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890., Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  7. Lefroy, William Chambers (1891). The Ruined Abbeys of Yorkshire. London: Seeley & Co. p. 194. OCLC 1065155900.
  8. "Accident at Trenholme Bar on 7th September 1866" (PDF). railwaysarchive.co.uk. p. 83. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  9. "The Fatal Railway Accident near Stockton". The Leeds Mercury (8, 864). 10 September 1866. p. 3. OCLC 751697369.
  10. Lloyd, Chris (9 September 2016). "Inquest over railway accident". Darlington and Stockton Times. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  11. Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide 1877 at the Internet Archive
  12. Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide 1906 at the Internet Archive
  13. "Explore georeferenced maps - Map images - National Library of Scotland". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  14. Quick, Michael (2019). "Railway Passenger Stations in England, Scotland and Wales; a Chronology" (PDF). rchs.org.uk. p. 402. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  15. "Disused Stations: Trenholme Bar Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Picton
Line and station closed		   NER
Picton-Battersby Line		   Potto
Line and station closed
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