Hawsker railway station

Hawsker
The former platform at Hawsker with some old railway carriages (2007)
General information
Location	Hawsker, North Yorkshire England
Coordinates	54.459350°N 0.578500°W / 54.459350; -0.578500
Grid reference	NZ922080
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Scarborough and Whitby Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1885	Opened
1965	Closed
Location

Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the villages of High Hawsker, Low Hawsker and Stainsacre. Hawsker was a small intermediate stop and its ticket sales reflected this; it sold only 8,982 tickets in 1922.[1]

The Scarborough & Whitby railway was a victim of the Beeching cuts and all freight traffic to Hawsker was curtailed by 10 August 1964 and the station closed to passengers on 8 March 1965.[2]

The track from Whitby was left in situ until 1973 pending potash traffic which never materialised.[3] The road overbridge immediately south of the station was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a dual pelican crossing.[4] The station is now (2007) the headquarters of Trailways Cycle Hire and has old railway carriages used as accommodation on site. In the 2010s a brick wing (in a style similar to the rest of the building) was added to the station house's southeast side.

References

1. "Hawsker Station, Whitby - The LNER Encyclopedia". www.lner.info. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
2. "Disused Stations: Hawsker Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
3. Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways around Whitby: Scarborough – Whitby – Saltburn, Malton – Goathland – Whitby, Esk Valley, Forge Valley and Gilling lines. Leeds: Martin Bairstow. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-871944-34-1.
4. "Geograph:: Crossing at High Hawsker (C) Graham Horn". www.geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
• Chapman, Stephen (2008). York to Scarborough Whitby & Ryedale. Bellcode Books. ISBN 978-1-871233-19-3.

External links

• Trailways Cycle Hire (current owners of the station)
• Hawsker station on navigable O. S. map

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Robin Hood's Bay Line and station closed		North Eastern Railway Scarborough & Whitby Railway		Whitby West Cliff Line and station closed