Skinningrove railway station was 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 1 April 1875, and served the villages of

Skinningrove Skinningrove is a village in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. Its name is of Old Norse etymology and is thought to mean ''skinners' grove or pit''. History The village had an agricultural and fishing economy until the opening ...

and

Carlin How Carlin How is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Notable people *Alfred Myers, ironstone miner, one of the Richmond Sixteen North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by National parks of the United Kingdom, national parks, including most of ...

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. It was originally named "Carlin How", but was renamed on 1 October 1903 by the North Eastern Railway. It had no goods service, but a zig zag track branched off just outside the station from a point on the main line towards Saltburn, serving the Loftus Mines in the valley below, where

ironstone Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially. Not to be con ...

was mined. This closed in 1958. Further north towards Brotton, near the village of Carlin How, the tracks serving

Skinningrove Steelworks Skinningrove steelworks is a steel mill in Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, England. The business was formed in 1874 as the ''Loftus Iron Company'', after a liquidation of the company reformed in 1880 as the ''Skinningrove Iron Company''. The work ...

branch off the line. Skinningrove station closed to regular passenger traffic on 30 June 1952, but retained a workmen's service to the Skinningrove Steelworks until 5 May 1958. Very little remains of the former station.

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Skinningrove station on navigable 1955 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in Redcar and Cleveland Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1875 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1958 Loftus, North Yorkshire {{NorthEastEngland-railstation-stub