Place Beck Hole Grid reference NZ821020 1836 Opened | Area Scarborough Pre-grouping North Eastern Railway 1914 Closed for passengers | |
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Original company Whitby and Pickering Railway | ||
Beckhole railway station was a railway station at Beck Hole in the North Yorkshire Moors on part of the original Whitby and Pickering Railway line. It opened in 1836, and closed in 1914.
History
The station opened in 1836 as part of the Whitby and Pickering Railway. A deviation of the line was built in 1865 to avoid the use of a rope-hauled inclined plane; a short section of the replaced line from Grosmont to Beck Hole remained open as the Beck Hole branch.
From 1908 to 1914 the branch was used for summer passenger traffic from Whitby, after which the line only carried freight traffic. Freight traffic ended in 1951.
References
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