Helmsley
Location type
StationName and dates
Helmsley (1871-1953)Where: Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England
Opened on the Gilling to Pickering Line (North Eastern Railway).
Description
This was a two platform station with a passing loop to the south east of the village of Helmsley.
The main station building was on the northbound platform (the line actually continuing east to Pickering). This was fitted with a canopy over the platform. A small shelter was opposite.
There was a goods yard to the south and on the west side of the line. It was approached from the south. The signal box was at the south end of the northbound platform.
The station closed to passengers in 1953 but line remained open as a goods line to Kirbymoorside until 1964.
The former station building, signal box, goods shed and coal drops remain today. Portions of the passenger platforms remain.
Tags
Station
| Nearby stations Nawton Nunnington Gilling Ampleforth Kirbymoorside Hovingham Spa Coxwold Slingsby Sinnington Husthwaite Gate Barton-le-Street Amotherby Easingwold Pickering Kirby [North Eastern] | Harome Siding Kirkdale Viaduct Sherriff^s Pit Rosedale West Goods Blakey Mines Kepwick Quarry Mine Blakey Junction Rosedale East Goods Mill Lane Junction Bloworth Crossing Sunbeck Junction Tourist/other Cawton Gate Crossing Fryton Crossing Swinton Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1871 | Gilling to Pickering Line (North Eastern Railway) Opened from Gilling to Helmsley, with stations at Nunnington and Helmsley. |
| / /1874 | Gilling to Pickering Line (North Eastern Railway) Extended from Helmsley to Kirby Moorside. Stations opened at Nawton and Kirby Moorside. |
| / /1953 | Gilling to Pickering Line (North Eastern Railway) Closed to passengers (Nunnington, Helmsley, Nawton, Kirbymoorside, Sinnington closed). Closed completely from Kirkbymoorside (excluded) to Mill Lane Junction (excluded). |
