Cloughton railway station
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England
Cloughton | |||||
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 The former station at Cloughton in 1989 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Cloughton, North Yorkshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 54°19′57″N 0°26′45″W / 54.332500°N 0.445850°W | ||||
| Grid reference | TA011941 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Scarborough & Whitby Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1885 | Opened | ||||
| 1965 | Closed | ||||
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Cloughton railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the North Yorkshire villages of Cloughton and Burniston.[1]
The station had a canopied goods shed, and the '1904 Handbook of Stations', listed it as being able to handle general goods, livestock, horse boxes and prize cattle vans. It also had a 1-ton 10 cwt permanent crane.[2] The station was host to a LNER camping coach in 1935, possibly one for some of 1934 and three coaches from 1936 to 1939.[3] Two coaches were positioned here by North Eastern Region of British Railways from 1954 and three from 1959 to 1964.[4]
The station closed on 8 March 1965.[1] The station building has been restored and is currently used as a private house, with guest accommodation provided in a converted railway carriage, a converted goods shed, and two B&B suites. A tea room formerly operated in the station building, but that closed in September 2019. The railway alignment through the station is used by the Cinder Track, a multi-use path between Scarborough and Whitby.[5][6]
