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Hawsker railway station

Hawsker railway station

Former railway station in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England

Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the villages of High Hawsker, Low Hawsker and Stainsacre. Hawsker was a small intermediate stop and its ticket sales reflected this; it sold only 8,982 tickets in 1922.[1]

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The Scarborough & Whitby railway was a victim of the Beeching cuts and all freight traffic to Hawsker was curtailed by 10 August 1964 and the station closed to passengers on 8 March 1965.[2]

The track from Whitby was left in situ until 1973 pending potash traffic which never materialised.[3] The road overbridge immediately south of the station was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a dual pelican crossing.[4] The station is now (2007) the headquarters of Trailways Cycle Hire and has old railway carriages used as accommodation on site. In the 2010s a brick wing (in a style similar to the rest of the building) was added to the station house's southeast side.

References

  1. [1]
    "Hawsker Station, Whitby - The LNER Encyclopedia". www.lner.info. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Disused Stations: Hawsker Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  3. [3]
    Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways around Whitby: Scarborough – Whitby – Saltburn, Malton – Goathland – Whitby, Esk Valley, Forge Valley and Gilling lines. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-871944-34-1.
  4. [4]
    "Geograph:: Crossing at High Hawsker (C) Graham Horn". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough Whitby & Ryedale. Bellcode Books. ISBN 978-1-871233-19-3.
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