Loftus railway station
For the railway station in Sydney, see Loftus railway station, Sydney.
| Loftus | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Loftus |
| Area | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Coordinates | 54°33′08″N 0°53′38″W / 54.552236°N 0.894000°WCoordinates: 54°33′08″N 0°53′38″W / 54.552236°N 0.894000°W |
| Grid reference | NZ716180 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | WR&MUR |
| Pre-grouping | North Eastern Railway |
| Platforms | 2 |
| History | |
| 1875 | Opened |
| 1960 | Closed to passengers |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
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Loftus, previously Lofthouse, was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1875, and served the town of Loftus. It closed to passenger traffic in April 1960 and goods traffic in 1963; the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.
Though a single track was re-instated in the 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine, the station remains closed.
References
- "Scrap Book by Noel Agar". Loftus History. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
Further reading
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010). 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find.' A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 (M.A. thesis). University of York.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (2012). The Whitby-Loftus Line. Jet Coast Development Trust. ISBN 978-0-9567890-1-3.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2013). "The Whitby - Loftus line: "a more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find." Is this really the case?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (216): 33–46.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2013). "The Viaducts and Tunnels of the Whitby-Loftus Line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (218): 33–47.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (January 2014). "The Tunnels and Viaducts of the Whitby-Loftus line". Forgotten Relics of an Enterprising Age.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2014). "A Difficult Year in the History of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (219): 32–41.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2014). "Closing a line before Beeching: the end of the Whitby-Loftus line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (221): 149–58.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2015). "The importance of fieldwork in researching railway history". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (224): 377–87.
- Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2016). "The Suez Specials". The Gresley Observer. The Gresley Society (169): 19–27.
External links
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skinningrove | Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway | Grinkle | ||
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