Robin Hood's Bay railway station


Robin Hood's Bay railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway situated 15 miles from Scarborough and 6 miles from Whitby It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay, and to a lesser extent the village of Fylingthorpe. On the north-bound journey trains had to climb a mile and a half at 1 in 43 out of the station.
The goods yard had a 1.5 ton crane and could handle all kinds of freight. With five sidings, cattle dock, coal yard, goods shed, and weighbridge it was the largest one on the line.
The station was host to a LNER camping coach in 1935, possibly one for some of 1934 and three coaches from 1936 to 1939. Three coaches were positioned here by North Eastern Region of British Railways from 1954 and five from 1957 to 1964.
Freight services were withdrawn on 10 August 1964, and the station was closed on 8 March 1965.
The station building survives, it and the former stationmaster's house are used as holiday accommodation. Only a small part of the down platform remains. The former trackbed forms part of the Scarborough to Whitby Railway Path.