Egton is a railway station on the Esk Valley Line, which runs between

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and

Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a maritime, mineral and tourist heritage. Its East Clif ...

via

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. The station, situated west of Whitby, serves the villages of

Egton Egton is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough local administration district of North Yorkshire county, England, about west of Whitby, and located within the North York Moors National Park. There is a nearby village called Egton Bridge ...

and

Egton Bridge Egton Bridge is a village in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies within the North York Moors National Park, on the River Esk, between the villages of Glaisdale and Grosmont, about six miles south-west of Whitby, an ...

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, England. It is owned by

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and managed by

Northern Trains Northern Trains, branded as Northern, (legally Northern Trains Limited) is a publicly owned train operating company in England. It is owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail N ...

History

The station was opened by the North Eastern Railway on 2 October 1865, following the completion of the section of line between and , as proposed by ''Castleton and Grosmont Railway'' in an Act passed by

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in July 1861. The station opened at the same time as the line, and because of its elevated location above the valley floor, the architect of the station buildings, Thomas Prosser, had the foundations buried deep. Between 1865 and 1881, the station was known as ''Egton'' after the bigger of the two villages it served, but between 1881 and 1892, it was called ''Egton Bridge'' named after its physical location. It reverted to being plain ''Egton'' in 1892. The station stopped forwarding and receiving goods in August 1965.

Services

As of the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by five trains per day (four on Sunday) towards

. Heading towards

via

, there are six trains per day (four on Sunday). Most trains continue to

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via Hartlepool. All services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 156 ''Super Sprinter'' and Class 158 ''Express Sprinter''

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* * {{Railway stations served by Northern Trains Railway stations in the Borough of Scarborough DfT Category F2 stations Former North Eastern Railway (UK) stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1865 Northern franchise railway stations