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Scalby railway station

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Place
  
Scalby

Grid reference
  
TA015905

1885
  
Opened

Area
  
Scarborough

Pre-grouping
  
North Eastern Railway

Platforms in use
  
1

1953
  
Closed for regular passenger services

Original company
  
Scarborough and Whitby Railway

Scalby railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway.

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History

The station opened on 16 July 1885, and served the village of Scalby. It closed to regular traffic on 2 March 1953 - the station building being turned into a camping cottage. Occasional trains still stopped for users of this facility until final closure in 1964. Since closure, a road called Chichester Close has been built on the site.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 24 April 1956. a locomotive was derailed when the track spread under it during shunting. An instruction banning heavy locomotives from the goods yard had been forgotten.

    • References

    Scalby railway station Wikipedia
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