Grinkle railway station

Grinkle
Location
Place Easington
Area Redcar and Cleveland
Coordinates 54°33′04″N 0°51′42″W / 54.551078°N 0.861616°W / 54.551078; -0.861616Coordinates: 54°33′04″N 0°51′42″W / 54.551078°N 0.861616°W / 54.551078; -0.861616
Grid reference NZ737179
Operations
Original company Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2
History
3 December 1883 (1883-12-03) Opened as Easington
1 April 1904 Renamed Grinkle
11 September 1939 (1939-09-11) Closed
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Grinkle railway station was on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 3 December 1883,[1] and served the village of Easington in North Yorkshire, England. It was originally named Easington, but was renamed Grinkle on 1 April 1904[2] after Grinkle Park, to avoid confusion with another Easington railway station on the North Eastern Railway's network.

The station had originally only one platform, a second one was added around 1906 to increase the passenger capacity of the line. A small goods yard with only one siding was situated west of the station, serving a coal depot. There were a brick-built station building and a signal box.[3] It closed on 11 September 1939,[4] but was used as a passing loop afterwards.[3] Since the line was closed and the tracks to Boulby Potash Mine were relaid, the station has been completely dismantled.[5]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Loftus
Line and station closed		   North Eastern Railway
Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway		   Staithes
Line and station closed

References

  1. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 87.
  2. ↑ Butt 1995, pp. 87, 110.
  3. 1 2 Ken Mell. "Disused Stations: Grinkle Station". Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 110.
  5. ↑ Nigel Thompson (10 October 2009). "Grinkle railway station (site), Yorkshire". Geograph.co.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

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.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2016). "The Suez Specials". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (169): 19–27.
  • Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2017). "How the Coast Line could have been saved". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (172): 32–33.


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