Picton railway station (England)

Picton railway station was a railway station serving the village of Picton in North Yorkshire, England. Located on the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe Line (which is now the North TransPennine line) it was opened on 2 June 1852 by the Leeds Northern Railway.^[1] It closed to passengers on 4 January 1960^[2] and closed completely in July 1964.^[3]

Picton
Railway crossing with the old station buildings in the background, in 2010
General information
Location	Hambleton, North Yorkshire England
Coordinates	54.4649°N 1.3492°W / 54.4649; -1.3492
Grid reference	NZ422079
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Leeds Northern Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
2 June 1852	Opened
4 January 1960	Closed to passengers
7 July 1964	Closed completely

History

The station as it appeared in 1904

The station was located just north of the junction for the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway line to Battersby and Grosmont on the Whitby & Pickering Railway. It was 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yarm and 10 miles (16 km) north of Northallerton.^[4] Local services started at the station with the opening of the Leeds Northern Railway and then along the Battersby line when the first section to Stokesley opened in 1857.^[5]

With the full opening of the line to Grosmont in 1865, four out and back services to Whitby per day were worked along the Battersby line.^[6] The timetable from 1906 shows that the station had five stopping services each way on both lines; the services south went to Northallerton and the services on the line to Stokesley originated in Stockton and ran through to Whitby.^[7] By 1922, this was down to four services on the Battersby line, and by the time of the closure of that line to passengers in 1954, the service ran to only two trains per day through Picton.^[8]

The station remained open for a further six years for local services on the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line, and was closed to passengers in 1960.^[9] The station closed to goods traffic in January 1964,^[10] with the goods yard being used by a stone merchant. The stationmasters house still stands, but the other buildings have all been demolished.^[11]

The line through the site remains open as part of the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe line.^[3]

References

1. Body, G (1988). PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 137. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.
2. Burgess, Neil (2011). The lost railways of Yorkshire's North Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 53. ISBN 9781840335552.
3. "Disused Stations: Picton Station". www.disused-stations.org.uk. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
4. Padgett, David (2016). Brailsford, Martyn (ed.). Railway track diagrams, Book 2 - Eastern (4 ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. 44. ISBN 978-0-9549866-8-1.
5. Tomlinson 1914, p. 552.
6. Suggitt 2007, p. 62.
7. Bradshaws 1906 Timetable at the Internet Archive
8. Suggitt 2007, p. 64.
9. Bairstow 2008, p. 111.
10. Hoole, Ken (1985). Railway stations of the North East. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 181. ISBN 0-7153-8527-5.
11. Maynard, Peter (2015). North Eastern Railway branch lines. North Yorkshire & Cleveland Railway. North Eastern Railway Association. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-873513-98-9.

Sources

• Bairstow, Martin (2008). Railways Around Whitby; Volume One (2 ed.). Farsley: Bairstow. ISBN 978-1-871944-34-1.
• Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost Railways of North & East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5.
• Tomlinson, William Weaver (1914). The North Eastern Railway; its Rise and Development. London: Longmans & Co. OCLC 1049905072.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
West Rounton Gates Line open; station closed		North Eastern Railway Northallerton–Eaglescliffe line		Yarm Line and station open
	Disused railways
Trenholme Bar Line and station closed		North Eastern Railway Picton-Battersby line		Yarm Line and station open