Kettleness railway station

Kettleness
General information
Location	Scarborough
Managed by	North Eastern Railway
Line(s)	WR&MUR
Platforms	2
Key dates
1883	Opened
1958	Closed

Kettleness was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 3 December 1883, and served the remote village of Kettleness. It closed on 5 May 1958.

The station building is now known as 'Seeonee Lair' and is run as an activity centre by East Cleveland Scout District. The track bed has been lifted and the station canopy removed, but the platforms remain.

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References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory Of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Limited. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.

Further reading

• Williams, Michael Aufrère (2010). 'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find.' A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958 (M.A. thesis). University of York.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (2012). The Whitby-Loftus Line. Jet Coast Development Trust. ISBN 978-0-9567890-1-3.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2013). "The Whitby - Loftus line: "a more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find." Is this really the case?". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (216): 33–46.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2013). "The Viaducts and Tunnels of the Whitby-Loftus Line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (218): 33–47.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (January 2014). "The Tunnels and Viaducts of the Whitby-Loftus line". Forgotten Relics of an Enterprising Age.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (March 2014). "A Difficult Year in the History of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (219): 32–41.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2014). "Closing a line before Beeching: the end of the Whitby-Loftus line". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (221): 149–58.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (November 2015). "The importance of fieldwork in researching railway history". Journal of the Railway and Canal Historical Society (224): 377–87.
• Williams, Michael Aufrère (Summer 2016). "The Suez Specials". The Gresley Observer (169). The Gresley Society: 19–27.

External links

• Seeonee Lair at East Cleveland Scout District web site
• Kettleness station on navigable 1955 O. S. map
• Disused Stations: Kettleness Station

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Hinderwell		Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway		Sandsend