Loftus railway station
Loftus, previously Lofthouse, was a railway station on the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1875 as the terminus of a line from Saltburn, and served the town of Loftus. When the line to Whitby was opened on 3 December 1883, it became a through station with two platforms and a goods yard consisting of three sidings. It closed to passenger traffic on 2 May 1960 and goods traffic on 12 August 1963;[1] the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.
Loftus | |
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Site of the former station with stationmaster's house, 2009 | |
Location | |
Place | Loftus |
Area | Redcar and Cleveland |
Coordinates | 54.552236°N 0.894000°W |
Grid reference | NZ716180 |
Operations | |
Original company | WR&MUR |
Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
1875 | Opened |
1960 | Closed to passengers |
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
Though a single track was relaid from Skinningrove by 1 April 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine, the station remains closed, and most buildings have been demolished. The stationmaster's house is now a private residence, the large brick-build goods shed also remains standing.[1]
References
- Ken Mell. "Disused Stations: Loftus Station". Retrieved 12 June 2017.
- "Scrap Book by Noel Agar". Loftus History. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008.
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.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2018). "The costs of working a failing branch line: a financial study of the Whitby - Loftus line, 1910-1933". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (233): 351–62.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (2019). The Whitby-Loftus Line. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-542-2. Locomotion Papers 244.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (Autumn 2019). "Seconds from disaster". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (179): 88–92.
External links
Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Skinningrove | Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway | Grinkle |