Saltburn railway station
Saltburn | |
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Location | |
Place | Saltburn-by-the-Sea |
Local authority | Redcar and Cleveland |
Coordinates | 54°35′01″N 0°58′26″W / 54.5835°N 0.9740°WCoordinates: 54°35′01″N 0°58′26″W / 54.5835°N 0.9740°W |
Grid reference | NZ664214 |
Operations | |
Station code | SLB |
Managed by | Northern Rail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries | |
Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2005/06 | 0.225 million |
2006/07 | 0.236 million |
2007/08 | 0.237 million |
2008/09 | 0.244 million |
2009/10 | 0.239 million |
2010/11 | 0.252 million |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Saltburn from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Saltburn railway station serves the town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is the terminus of the Tees Valley Line and is operated by Northern Rail who provide all passenger train services. It is unmanned, and has two acrylic glass passenger shelters, numerous seating and an electronic information board. Like most stations in the North East of England Saltburn has not experienced the substantial growth in passenger numbers common to the rest of the United Kingdom (see figures right). As of 2013 passenger growth has increased significantly.
The station is covered by a newly installed Funkwerk Text-To-Speech Public Address System (PA) using a synthesized British female voice.
History
The station was opened by the Stockton and Darlington Railway as the terminus of their line from Redcar on 17 August 1861 (although the ornate station building wasn't finished until the following year). Eleven years later, the North Eastern Railway opened a line towards Brotton (the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway)[1] from the town, but this diverged from the original route some 440 yards (400 m) west of the 1861 station in order to avoid excessively steep gradients further east. This meant the passenger trains from the town to Loftus and Whitby that started in 1875 had to reverse into and out of the terminus before regaining the correct direction at Saltburn West Junction. This line is still in operation today to serve a steelworks at Skinningrove and the Boulby potash mine, although passenger trains ceased in 1951.
In its heyday, the station had four platforms and a sizeable number of carriage sidings to handle the large quantities of excursion trains that ran there - these included services from as far away as Leeds and Blackpool.[2] There was also a short siding extension (approximately 300 yards (270 m)) from the main station to another platform at the rear of the railway-owned Zetland Hotel (opened in 1863) where passengers in first class carriages could disembark directly into their accommodation.
A 1974 remodelling scheme [3] saw the station reduced in size however, with the two main platforms & signal box being taken out of use along with most of the sidings and one of the two running lines from West Junction. Today both of the two surviving excursion bay platforms are used for scheduled services but neither the main station building nor the Zetland Hotel is in rail-related use - the former having been converted into a photographic studio, cafe and various other retail outlets and the latter into luxury flats.
Services
There is a half-hourly service (Mondays to Saturdays) from the station to Middlesbrough and Darlington, with certain trains continuing to Bishop Auckland (every two hours, increasing to hourly at peak times). There is an hourly service on Sundays (two hourly to Bishop Auckland).
Notes
References
- Binns, D. (1981), Railways Around Skipton, Wyvern Publications, Skipton.
- Body, G. (1988), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, ISBN 1-85260-072-1
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saltburn railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Saltburn railway station from National Rail
- RAILSCOT - Saltburn
- Saltburn Line User Group - Pictorial History
- Buses from the station
- Buses to the station
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Terminus | Northern Rail |
This station offers access to the Cleveland Way | |
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Distance to path | |
Next station anticlockwise | Kildale 8 miles |
Next station clockwise | Whitby 19 miles |