Scalby railway station

The station opened on 16 July 1885, and served the village of Scalby.{{Quick-stations-5|page=402}} It was situated immediately north of Scalby Viaduct and had a single platform, a goods bay, and another siding.{{cite web |title=Scalby station on OS 25 inch map Yorkshire LXXVII.12 (Scalby; Scarborough) |year=1892 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/125628931#zoom=5&lat=9686&lon=2454&layers=BT |website=National Library of Scotland |accessdate=15 July 2020}}

The station closed to regular traffic on 2 March 1953, the station building was then converted into a camping cottage. Two camping coaches were positioned here by the North Eastern Region from 1954 to 1956 and four coaches were here from 1957 until 1964.{{cite book|last=McRae|first=Andrew|title=British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s |volume=Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two) |publisher=Foxline |year=1998 |isbn=1-870119-53-3|pages=33 & 40}} Occasional trains stopped for users of these facilities until final closure in 1964, Quick (2022) notes that two or three trains each way had definite calls in the working timetable of June 1961.

In 1974, the station was completely demolished, and a road called Chichester Close has been built on the site since. Some of the stonework has been reused as corner stones, embedded in the brickwork, of houses in this street.{{cite web | author = Nick Catford | url = http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/scalby/index.shtml | title = Scalby station |website=Disused stations}}

Scalby Viaduct still stands, and has four spans of {{convert|35|ft}} each.{{cite book |last1=Lidster |first1=J. Robin |title=The Scarborough & Whitby Railway : a centenary volume : a pictorial and documentary record celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the opening of a Yorkshire coast railway |date=1985 |publisher=Hendon |location=Nelson |isbn=0-86067-097-X|at=10}}

• On 24 April 1956, BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T No. 80119 was derailed when the track spread under it during shunting. An instruction banning heavy locomotives from the goods yard had been forgotten.{{cite book |last=Hoole |first=Ken |authorlink=Ken Hoole |title=Trains in Trouble: Vol. 4 |year=1983 |publisher=Atlantic Books |location=Redruth |isbn=0-906899-07-9 |page=32 }}

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• {{cite book | author=Butt, R.V.J. | title=The Directory Of Railway Stations| year=1995| publisher=Patrick Stephens Limited | isbn = 1-85260-508-1}}

• [http://www.npemap.org.uk/tiles/map.html#501,490,1 Scalby station on navigable 1947 O. S. map]

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Category:Disused railway stations in the Borough of Scarborough

Category:Former North Eastern Railway (United Kingdom) stations

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1885

Category:Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1953

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