Huttons Ambo railway station was a minor

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serving the twin villages of High Hutton and

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, and the village of Menethorpe, in

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, England, on the

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. The villages were previously known as Hutton on the Hill and Hutton on Derwent. They were coupled together in 1589 (Yorkshire Fines, Tudor, m., p. 107). The station was opened on 5 July 1845 by the

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. It closed to regular passenger traffic in 1930. The last station master was Mr Ken Collinson. The station was originally just named Hutton, but was renamed Huttons Ambo on 1 February 1885. At one time, mathematician

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's grandfather was

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here, and John Cariss was porter. In 1913, legislation was passed for a

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, but this was never implemented.

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Huttons Ambo station on navigable 1947 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in North Yorkshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1845 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930 Former York and North Midland Railway stations George Townsend Andrews railway stations {{Yorkshire-Humber-railstation-stub