Danby railway station

Danby railway station serves the village of Danby in the parish of Danby, North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Trains who provide all of the station's passenger services.

Danby
Location
Place	Danby
Local authority	Scarborough
Coordinates	54.466200°N 0.911000°W / 54.466200; -0.911000
Grid reference	NZ706084
Operations
Station code	DNY
Managed by	Northern Trains
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	8,440
2015/16	7,084
2016/17	6,334
2017/18	6,810
2018/19	6,184
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Danby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station opened in 1865 with the line.[1]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939 and may have had a coach visiting in 1934.[2]

Danby is the location of the North York Moors National Park visitors centre. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) from the station to the centre on foot.[3]

Services

Northern Trains Route 5: Esk Valley Line
Durham Coast Line to Newcastle & Tees Valley Line to Bishop Auckland Middlesbrough Tees Valley Line to Saltburn James Cook Marton Gypsy Lane Nunthorpe Great Ayton Battersby Kildale Commondale Castleton Moor Danby Lealholm Glaisdale Egton North York Moors Railway to Pickering Grosmont for North York Moors Railway Sleights Ruswarp Whitby

There are four trains to Whitby and five to Middlesbrough on weekdays and Saturdays, (plus one additional evening service each way on summer Fridays) and four each way on Sundays.[4] Some trains continue beyond Middlesbrough to Newcastle via the Durham Coast Line.

References

1. Cobb, M H (2003). Railway Atlas of Great Britain. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 439. ISBN 0711030030.
2. McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
3. "The Moors National Park Centre". North York Moors. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
4. Table 45 National Rail timetable, December 2018

External links

Media related to Danby railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Castleton Moor		Northern Trains Esk Valley Line		Lealholm