Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station

Disused railway station in North Yorkshire, England

54°16′30″N 0°24′38″W / 54.275114°N 0.410500°W / 54.275114; -0.410500Grid referenceTA034877Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyNorth Eastern RailwayPre-groupingNorth Eastern RailwayPost-groupingLondon and North Eastern RailwayKey dates8 June 1908opened1 June 1933renamed and upgraded to a public station25 August 1963closed for passengers4 July 1966closed completely

Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station, originally called Washbeck Excursion Station, was built as an excursion station to ease operating pressure at Scarborough Central in the holiday resort of Scarborough. It had a through and a bay platform.^[1] 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,^[2] but it was not advertised in public timetables until 1933, after it had been upgraded to a public station. It had one through platform which could handle a 14-carriage train, and a south-facing end platform which could handle 11-carriage trains.^[3] It was closed to passenger trains by British Railways on 25 August 1963, but remained in use for stabling coaching stock^[1] until its official closure on 4 July 1966.^[4]

The station building and the 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. However, most of the platform has been demolished due to the construction of a new service depot for TransPennine Express trains.

References

^ ^a ^b Nick Catford. "Scarborough Londesborough Road". Disused Stations. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
^ Tomlinson, William (1914). The North Eastern railway; its Rise and Development. Green. p. 763. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^ Bairstow, Martin (1990). Railways in East Yorkshire. Halifax: Martin Bairstow. p. 20. ISBN 1-871944-03-1.
^ 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. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.