Loftus railway station

Loftus
Location
Place	Loftus
Area	Redcar and Cleveland
Coordinates	54°33′08″N 0°53′38″W / 54.552236°N 0.894000°W / 54.552236; -0.894000Coordinates: 54°33′08″N 0°53′38″W / 54.552236°N 0.894000°W / 54.552236; -0.894000
Grid reference	NZ716180
Operations
Original company	WR&MUR
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
1875	Opened
1960	Closed to passengers
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Loftus, previously Lofthouse, was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1875, and served the town of Loftus. It closed to passenger traffic in April 1960 and goods traffic later in the decade; the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.

Though a single track was re-instated in the 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine, the station remains closed.

References

• "Scrap Book by Noel Agar". Loftus History. Retrieved 2008-02-06. 

Further reading

• Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010). 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find.' A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 (M.A. thesis). University of York. 
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (2012). The Whitby-Loftus Line. Jet Coast Development Trust. ISBN 978-0-9567890-1-3. 
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2013). "The Whitby - Loftus line: "a more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find." Is this really the case?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (216): 33–46. 
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2013). "The Viaducts and Tunnels of the Whitby-Loftus Line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (218): 33–47. 

External links

• Loftus station on navigable 1955 O. S. map