Malton railway station

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Malton
Location
Place Malton
Local authority Ryedale
Operations
Station code MLT
Managed by First TransPennine Express
Platforms in use 1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 0.237 million
History
Key dates Opened 1845
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Malton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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For the railway station in Malton, Ontario, see Malton GO Station.

Malton railway station serves the towns of Malton and Norton-on-Derwent in North Yorkshire, England. It is currently operated by First TransPennine Express who provide all passenger train services.

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[edit] Services

The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:

On Sundays this is reduced to:

  • 1 train per 2 hours (tp2h) to Liverpool, calling at York, Garforth, Leeds and then as above
  • 1 tp2h to Scarborough as above

[edit] History

At present, the station is only served by trains between Scarborough and York (and beyond), however prior to the Beeching Axe Malton station was also served by the Pickering Branch of the York and North Midland Railway with trains heading north (diverging at Rillington junction) to Pickering and then onwards to Grosmont and Whitby. This line closed entirely north of Pickering in 1965, with a freight-only service to Pickering surviving until 1966.

Though trains still run from Pickering to Grosmont as part of the preserved North York Moors Railway, the tracks between Rillington, where the line branched, and Pickering have since been lifted.

Up until 1958 the Malton & Driffield Railway, with trains heading south to Driffield, survived for freight and the occasional (summer-only) through excursion to the coast, after 1958 these excursion trains had to reverse at Scarborough Road junction on the easterly edge of Malton, back down towards Malton station before reversing again and heading off to Scarborough. Prior to 1950 there had been a passenger service nicknamed the 'Driffield Dodger' between Malton and Driffield.

As an interchange between three lines, Malton station would therefore have been considerably busier than it is now.

Though Malton station now only has one platform in use, at its peak there were two through platforms, plus an additional bay platform serving (mainly) Whitby local trains.

One of Malton stations claim to fame was the novel solution adopted to allow passengers to access the second (island) platform, instead of a footbridge or barrow crossing the NER installed a removable section of platform, in the form of a wheeled trolley running on rails set at right-angles to the (single) running line. When a train required to use the platform the trolley was wheeled back under the up (York) platform; the trolley was interlocked with the signals giving access to the platform.

Until Northern Rail took over in 2004, Arriva Trains Northern did have services that stopped at Malton, the current York to Blackpool service used to continue to Scarborough alongside TransPenninexpress services. This service was usually worked by a Metro liveried Class 158 DMU, occasionally a Class 155 DMU. There was also a local service from York to Scarborough usually worked by a Pacer DMU or a Class 156.

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  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
York   First TransPennine Express
North TransPennine		   Seamer
Historical Railways
Huttons Ambo
Station closed; Line open		   Y&NMR
York to Scarborough Line		   Rillington
Station closed; Line open
Disused Railways
Terminus   Malton & Driffield Railway   Settrington