Staintondale railway station

{{Short description|Former railway station in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Staintondale

| status = Disused

| image = Staintondale Station - geograph.org.uk - 172271.jpg

| caption = The former station at Staintondale, 2006

| borough = Staintondale, North Yorkshire

| country = England

| coordinates = {{coord|54.366300|-0.463050|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|SE999979|25|SE999979}}

| platforms = 2

| original = Scarborough & Whitby Railway

| pregroup = North Eastern Railway

| postgroup = London and North Eastern Railway

| years1 = 16 July 1885

| events1 = Opened

| years2 = 1964

| events2 = Closed to goods traffic

| years3 = 8 March 1965

| events3 = Closed

|mapframe = yes

|mapframe-zoom = 13

}}

Staintondale railway station, also known as Stainton Dale railway station, was {{convert|8|mi}} north of Scarborough and served the hamlet of Staintondale in North Yorkshire, England.

Staintondale railway station opened on 16 July 1885 when the Scarborough & Whitby Railway opened the full line.{{Quick-stations-5|page=424}}{{Grant-RailCo|page=488}}

It had two platforms either side of a passing loop and a small goods yard to the west. It was listed in 1904 as being able to handle general goods, livestock, horse boxes and prize cattle vans. There was no permanent crane, although one is shown on the 1893 Ordnance survey map.{{cite web |title=Stainton Dale station on OS 25 inch map Yorkshire LXII.7 (Cloughton; Staintondale) |year=1893 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/125627524 |website=National Library of Scotland |access-date=15 July 2020}}{{cite book |last=The Railway Clearing House |orig-year=1904 |year=1970 |edition=1970 D&C Reprint |title=The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 |location=Newton Abbot |publisher=David & Charles Reprints |isbn=0-7153-5120-6 |page=507}}

In 1937 the station was renamed as Stainton Dale (written as two separate words).{{efn|The 1893 Ordnance survey map has the village written as "Staintondale" and the station as "Stainton Dale"}}

A camping coach was positioned here by the North Eastern Region from 1954 to 1958 and two coaches were here from 1959 to 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=40 & 46}}

On 4 May 1964 the goods service was withdrawn from the station, which closed completely on 8 March 1965. During the station's final year of operation its average weekly taking was £15 but the wages bill for the station came to £180.{{cite news |title=A Yorkshire dog to rival Lassie, and other tales |url=https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/1526704.a-yorkshire-dog-to-rival-lassie-and-other-tales/ |access-date=14 January 2020 |work=Darlington and Stockton Times |date=6 July 2007 |language=en}}

The platforms and the main station buildings (used for residential purposes) are still in place.{{cite web | author = Nick Catford | title = Stainton Dale Station|website=Disused Stations | url = http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/stainton_dale/index.shtml|access-date=24 October 2018}}