Amotherby railway station

Amotherby
Site of the former station in August 1991. None of the station buildings remain.
General information
Location	Amotherby, North Yorkshire England
Coordinates	54.1546°N 0.8530°W / 54.1546; -0.8530
Grid reference	SE750738
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
19 May 1853	Station opened
1 January 1931	Station closed to passengers
17 October 1964	Station closed to goods

Amotherby railway station served the village of Amotherby in the Northern English county of North Yorkshire. It was located on a local line which ran from Malton to a junction with the Gilling and Pickering line in Gilling.

History

Opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, then absorbed by the North Eastern Railway the station joined the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. This company closed the station to passengers in 1930, although the goods service then passed on to the Eastern Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. Special and excursion passenger trains used the station until 27 July 1964, the last ramblers excursion to Kirbymoorside running on 3 May 1964, and the last passenger train was a Sunday school excursion. Most of the line closed to freight on 10 August 1964, but Amotherby station remained open until 17 October 1964 to honour a long-term contract with a local mill. Thus the 3½ mile long section between Amotherby and Malton was the last part of the Thirsk and Malton line to close.

Further reading

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.(Misspells station name as Amotherley)
• Station on navigable O.S. map.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Barton le Street Line and station closed		North Eastern Railway Thirsk and Malton Line		Malton Line closed, station open