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Danby railway station

Coordinates: 54°27′58″N 0°54′40″W / 54.466200°N 0.911000°W / 54.466200; -0.911000
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Danby
General information
LocationScarborough
Coordinates54°27′58″N 0°54′40″W / 54.466200°N 0.911000°W / 54.466200; -0.911000
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms1
Other information
Station codeDNY

Danby railway station serves the village of Danby in the parish of Danby, North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Esk Valley Line and is operated by Northern Trains who provide all of the station's passenger services.

The station opened in 1865 with the line.[1]

The station was host to a LNER camping coach from 1936 to 1939 and may have had a coach visiting in 1934.[2]

Danby is the location of the North York Moors National Park visitors centre. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) from the station to the centre on foot.[3]

Services

Northern Trains
Route 5
Esk Valley line
Middlesbrough
James Cook University Hospital
Marton
Gypsy Lane
Nunthorpe
Great Ayton
Battersby
Kildale
Commondale
Castleton Moor
Danby
Lealholm
Glaisdale
Egton
Grosmont
Heritage railway
Sleights
Ruswarp
Whitby
Heritage railway

There are four trains to Whitby and five to Middlesbrough on weekdays and Saturdays, (plus one additional evening service each way on summer Fridays) and four each way on Sundays.[4] Some trains continue beyond Middlesbrough to Newcastle via the Durham Coast Line.

References

  1. ^ Cobb, M H (2003). Railway Atlas of Great Britain. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 439. ISBN 0711030030.
  2. ^ McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. p. 10. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
  3. ^ "The Moors National Park Centre". North York Moors. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. ^ Table 45 National Rail timetable, December 2018

External links

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