Gilberdyke railway station

Gilberdyke National Rail

Southern Railway 'N-15/King Arthur' at Gilberdyke station with a charter train prior to the station remodelling (1982)
Location
Place Gilberdyke
Local authority East Riding of Yorkshire
Coordinates 53°44′52″N 0°43′48″W / 53.7479°N 0.7300°WCoordinates: 53°44′52″N 0°43′48″W / 53.7479°N 0.7300°W
Grid reference SE837286
Operations
Station code GBD
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  64,843
2005/06 Increase 66,603
2006/07 Decrease 59,765
2007/08 Increase 64,702
2008/09 Decrease 58,224
2009/10 Decrease 53,042
2010/11 Decrease 45,270
2011/12 Increase 50,820
History
Key dates Opened 1840
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gilberdyke from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Staddlethorpe station was a railway station opened in 1840 by the Hull and Selby Railway. In 1975 the station was renamed Gilberdyke railway station.

It is operated by Northern Rail and serves the village of Gilberdyke in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

History

Staddlethorpe station was opened by the Hull and Selby Railway in 1840. The original facilities included a water station, with a 1,250,000 imperial gallons (5,700 m3) reservoir and pumping engine.[1]

In 1842 a train guard slipped in wet weather, falling off the platform under moving coal wagons, resulting in very serious injuries leading to his death.[2] In 1850 a train from Hull to Normanton had one of its engine's boilers explode near the station. Both the driver and fireman were badly scalded, and the fireman broke a leg.[3]

Staddlethorpe junction in May 2008 (opened 1869)

In 1869 the Hull and Doncaster branch opened, branching southwestwards from a junction just west of the station.[4][5]

At around the end of the 19th century a goods shed, and sidings serving a creosote works were established south of the station. In the same period the line through was increased to 4 tracks.[5][6] The reservoir was filled in in 1903.[7]

The works and area south of the station was redeveloped as an industrial estate in the 1970.[8]

From 7 January 1975 the station became known as Gilberdyke station.[9]

In 2006 a planning application was accepted for the demolition of the goods shed and the erection of three industrial units split into eighteen smaller business units.[10]

Present

Railway buildings that still exist include the Station Master's house and two adjacent cottages, and, on Broad Lane, a number of terraced cottages known as Station Cottages. The sidings south of the station have been replaced by an industrial estate "Gateway Business Park".

The station is now an unmanned halt.

Services

The station in 2009

The station is operated by Northern Rail. The station is served hourly in each direction on weekdays by local trains between Hull Paragon and Doncaster. Some York trains also call here, along with the aforementioned limited service to Leeds and Manchester. On Sundays there is an hourly service to Hull and Sheffield.

There are also three westbound services per day (Monday-Saturday only) operated by First TransPennine Express; these run through to Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly respectively.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Saltmarshe
Goole on Sundays		   Northern Rail
Hull and Doncaster branch / Hull and Selby Line		   Broomfleet
Brough on Sundays
Eastrington
Howden on Sundays		   Northern Rail
Hull-York Line		   Broomfleet
Brough on Sundays
Howden
Selby on Sundays		   Northern Rail
York & Selby Lines		   Brough
Howden
Selby on Sundays		   First TransPennine Express
North TransPennine		   Brough

References

  1. ↑ Whishaw, Francis (1842), The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland Practically Described and Illustrated (2nd ed.), J. Weale, p. 166 , alt. link
  2. ↑ "Report of the Officers of the railway Department", The Sessional Papers of the House of Lords (William Clowes and Sons) 13, 1843, Appendix I. Returns of Accidents - Hull and Selby Railway, p.2
  3. ↑ "Appendix No. 25 York and North Midland Railway Bursting of a boiler of a locomotive engine (September 13, 1850)", Reports of the commissioners, 3 of 9 in v.30, 4 February – 8 August 1851: 36
  4. ↑ Hobson, Bernard, East Riding of Yorkshire, Cambridge University Press, p. 144
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ordnance Survey. 1:2500. 1890
  6. ↑ Ordnance Survey. 1:2500. 1909
  7. ↑ The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 41, 1903, p. 116, .. the large pool near Staddlethorpe Station [.] has been filled up by the North-Eastern Railway Company for railway improvements.
  8. ↑ Ordnance Survey. 1:2500. 1970-1, 1981
  9. ↑ "For Staddlethorpe read Gilberdyke", The Railway Magazine, 1974: 96
  10. ↑ (06/07590/STPLF) Erection of 3 buildings containing 18 No. industrial units, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, 22 September 2006

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