Sandsend railway station was a railway station on the

Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway (WRMU), the Whitby–Loftus Line, was a railway line in North Yorkshire, England, built between 1871 and 1886, running from Loftus on the Yorkshire coast to the Esk at Whitby, and connecting ...

. It was opened on 3 December 1883, and served the villages of

Sandsend Sandsend is a small fishing village, near to Whitby in the Scarborough (borough), Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Civil parishes of England, civil parish of Lythe. It is the birthplace of fishing magnate ...

and

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. It closed on 5 May 1958. The station building is now a private residence. It was the only station between Whitby and Loftus not to possess a passing loop.

History

Sandsend railway station was located on the Whitby, Middlesbrough and Redcar Union Railway, some north west of and south east of . It had a single platform, a brick station building which included the stationmaster's house, and a single siding serving coal drops (now converted into garages) behind the station. Camping coaches were stationed on the siding in later years. A passing loop was never added because of the extensive works it would have required. This made Sandsend, the only one of the seven stations between, and including Whitby and Loftus, which did not have a passing loop. A small goods yard with a warehouse and a crane was situated from the station at East Row, towards Whitby. This yard also had space for camping coaches, with three being normally located there. Sandsend Viaduct was sited immediately south of the station. A

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which was built in the

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to defend the viaduct is still in place. In October 2020 the Mulgrave Estate, owners of the land that the station covered, successfully applied to site railway coaches on the platform as holiday accommodation. The two railway vehicles will sit on the platform on a short section of track. One will be a former passenger-carrying coach whilst the second will be a converted freight wagon.

Services

Originally, the services on the line were worked only as far as , until the opening of the line southwards through Robin Hood's Bay to Scarborough. Between 1910 and 1922, services in the summer consisted of six daily trains each way. This had risen by 1938 to 14 each way, though in winter, the number of services could be as low as three.

In popular culture

In the 1947 British comedy drama ''

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'', the opening shots of a train arriving at a seaside cliff-top station and passengers boarding buses outside the station were filmed at Sandsend.

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