Grosmont Station Esk Valley Line train 1970s Dennis

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  Grosmont Station, North Yorkshire - on the Esk Valley Line
• Publisher:  Dennis (No. G.1402L)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s):  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Grosmont railway station serves the village of Grosmont in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line which serves one platform and is operated by Northern Rail who provide the station's passenger services. The main part of the station, closed in 1965, served trains to and from Pickering and Malton, originally consisted of two flanking platforms but this was increased to three by building a platform face onto the goods loop / run-round loop behind the Malton-bound platform, making it the fifth-largest station in Yorkshire in terms of the number of platforms. This part of the station is owned and operated by the preserved North Yorkshire Moors Railway who operate passenger services between Whitby and Pickering.

railway was brought to Grosmont by the Whitby and Pickering Railway and its engineer George Stephenson. It was a horse worked line and opened from Whitby as far as Grosmont (then known as 'Tunnel' from the tunnel required to pass from Grosmont towards Beckhole) in 1835.

The advent of the W&P brought development to 'Tunnel'. The Tunnel Inn was built to cater for railway passengers. Sometimes attributed to the W&P Rly. company, the inn was in fact built by one of the W&P's backers. It is still serving railway customers today. Between the inn and today's railway stands a building that is attributed to the W&P. Today it houses NYMR volunteers on the upper floor and a small workshop at track level. The floor of the workshop shows signs of once having a rail connection, presumably via a wagon turntable on a line outside.

The W&P opened throughout in 1836 and brought new businesses to the Grosmont area.