Thorganby railway station

Thorganby railway station served the village of Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England from 1912 to 1964 on the Derwent Valley Light Railway. The station had services northwards to York (Layerthorpe railway station) and south to Cliffe Common, which was a station on the line between Selby and Market Weighton.

Thorganby
The site of the station, looking east towards the station building, in 2015
General information
Location	Thorganby, North Yorkshire England
Coordinates	53.8595°N 0.9709°W / 53.8595; -0.9709
Grid reference	SE677408
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Derwent Valley Light Railway
Key dates
29 October 1912	Opened to goods
21 July 1913	Opened to passengers
1 September 1926	Closed to passengers
31 December 1968 (1968-12-31)	Closed to goods

History

Whilst the line was first proposed in 1898, it wasn't built until 1912. Thorganby station opened to passengers in July 1913, along with the other stations on the Derwent Valley Light Railway, and it closed to passengers in 1926.^[1][2] However, it was opened for goods traffic in October 1912 from Wheldrake south through Thorganby to Cliffe Common.^[3]

The station was 11.5 miles (18.5 km) south of York Layerthorpe railway station (the line's terminus) and 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of the southern end of the line at Cliffe Common, though connections could be made there to Selby railway station,^[4] which was on the line between Selby and Market Weighton.^[5] The station was 0.75 miles (1.21 km) from the village of Thorganby, and was mainly built to encourage agricultural traffic.^[6] During the passenger carrying era, the service pattern was typically three return trains per day, though delays were frequent as the trains were mixed passenger and goods, and this involved some shunting at stations.^[7]

The station at Thorganby was on the east side of the line and had just one platform, though a passing loop was installed immediately south of the station and the goods yard had four sidings.^[8]

Complete closure to freight came in December 1964; only the station building remains, which is in a derelict state,^[9] however, the stationmasters house survives as a private dwelling.^[10]

References

1. Burgess, Neil (2011). The lost railways of Yorkshire's East Riding. Catrine: Stenlake. p. 32. ISBN 9781840335521.
2. Quick, Michael (2019). "Railway Passenger Stations in England, Scotland and Wales; a Chronology" (PDF). rchs.org.uk. p. 393. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
3. Young 2015, p. 112.
4. Body, Geoffrey (1989). Railways of the Eastern Region. Cambridge: P. Stephens. p. 152. ISBN 1-85260-072-1.
5. Hoole, Ken (1974). A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Vol. 4, North East England. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 63. ISBN 0-7153-6439-1.
6. Young 2015, p. 113.
7. Suggitt, Gordon (2007). Lost railways of North and East Yorkshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-85306-918-5.
8. Young 2015, p. 114.
9. Young 2015, p. 111.
10. Jefferson-Brown, Nadia (11 May 2006). "This one's been sealed". infoweb.newsbank.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

Sources

• Young, Alan (2015). Lost Stations of Yorkshire; the North and East Ridings. Kettering: Silver Link. ISBN 978-1-85794-453-2.

External links

• Geograph image of station building

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Cottingwith Line private, station closed		Derwent Valley Light Railway		Skipwith Line private, station closed