PinzaC55

In a slightly bizarre twist regarding my mention of Gristhorpe station and it's garish colour scheme, it appears that it has been stripped back to bare brick some years ago and now looks much more acceptable.

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I just noticed this old Hull - Bridlington season ticket on Ebay. Nothing outstanding except that it was issued to the well known railway author CT Goode !

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RAILWAY-TICKET-BTC-1962-MONTHLY-SEASON-HULL-PARAGON-BRIDLINGTON-/181909000229?hash=item2a5a9f1025:g:VBEAAOSwHnFV3B-m

I paid 2 visits to Cayton and on the second one in 1978 I was invited into the box where the bobby poured out his troubles "British Rail (he said) ordered several thousand tons of ballast for this line but it was sent straight to the ECML. So costs are loaded onto us falsely"

Cayton signalbox in August 1977. There must have been more idyllic places in the North East but not many.

Cayton Station Gen View 12.8.77 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

The old wooden waiting room waiting for the ghostly passengers.

 

Cayton Station Waiting Room 12.8.77 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Just before I took this photo I obtained a beautiful pre grouping shot of the station from the NRM and decided to try again with my new Practika LTL-3. The station was absolutely perfect and looked like a stately home but since then the box has disappeared and the main building has undergone a tacky modernisation which has ruined it.

 

Cayton Station 1.4.1978 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

19 years after its 1959 closure Gristhorpe station was essentially intact except for lamps, nameboards and seats. I'd have loved to get a look inside the station building !

Gristhorpe SMs House 1.4.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

The lovely old signalbox which seems a little over sized for the station. I think it still exists ?

 

Gristhorpe Signalbox 1.4.1978 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Hi. Thank you PinzaC55. Those are great photo's of Speeton from 1978.

 

Tonight I have three more photo's from the front of that class 101 DMU. They show Gristhorpe, a bridge after Gristhorpe, and Seamer West Junction, all on Easter Saturday, 1987.

 

Seamer West Junction:

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With best regards,

 

Rob.

The two bracket signals in that photo are at Peak Rail now.

On my visit to Speeton in April 1978 the station was looking a tad neglected but otherwise good with old clock still on the wall.

Speeton Station {2} 1.4.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Speeton signalbox was a neat looking building from around the early 1900s. Like most of them it has long since gone.

 

Speeton Signalbox 1.4.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

I don't whether I have already posted this but it is taken from a contemporary BR NE staff magazine and shows a DMU at Bridlington in 1957. Would have been fantastic to have a run up the Malton & Driffield Railway ! Driver to the Guard at Driffield "Ayup lad , I've got t't board for Malton !"

In August 1977 I got a bus to near Lowthorpe village and walked to the station in sizzling heat. I well remember that one of the cottages had a platform oil lamp from the station hanging outside. Closed for 7 years it was about as charming a rural station as you could hope to find.

Lowthorpe Station (2)  12.8.77 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

A 6 car Met Camm DMU hurtles south, full of returning holidaymakers. There were few things more impressive than a long DMU with all the exhausts going.

 

Lowthorpe Station (3)  12.8.77 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

In June 1979 I visited Bempton station. I have a feeling I visited it on an earlier occasion but seem to have no photos ! I remember on this occasion I went to Sunderland and asked for a return to Bempton whereupon the booking clerk, thinking I meant Benton on the North Tyne loop, said "It's closed" and I replied "No it isn't !" and showed her it on the BR map on the wall. So with some muttering I got an NCR ticket to Bempton. This photo is pretty poor but hey ho.

Bempton Station (3) 9.6.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Looking towards Scarborough with the LNER concrete plant pots prominent.

 

Bempton Station (1) 9.6.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Hull DMU leaving  

 

Bempton Station (5) 9.6.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Derelict weighbridge in the former goods yard.

 

Bempton Station (4) 9.6.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

The gate box at Buckton Lane is a gem well looked after and the area around well tended did the gateman live in the houses behind ?

At this vast distance in time all I can remember is that it was a rather attractive lady gatekeeper who chatted with me for a while. I think she did live in the cottage and you will notice that there is no bicycle there which is another good clue.

Thank you PinzaC55 for those photo's. A most valuable record of what has now gone.

Here is a not very good photo' of Flamborough Box from the front of a class 101 DMU on 14th April, 1987.

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With regards,

 

Rob.

Great photo - that's one thing I never did enough, take photos from trains. Was the box there in 1987 I could have sworn most of them closed in 1984 or thereabouts.

Flamborough station in 1977 just 7 years after closure, a poor photo taken on my dad's Zenith-E camera which was prone to jamming when I reached remote locations like Enthorpe !

Flamborough Signalbox  1977 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Thank you, PinzaC55, and Mick for the photo's and your contributions to this thread. Please keep the contributions and photo's coming. They are all very welcome.

 

Tonight, I wish to start by saying that I've been to York today and have taken some photo's, of which some are posted here. There are two of a class 142 + 144 unit combination at Selby, along with a photo' of Selby West Signal box.

I travelled to and from York on class 158 units. 158842 and 158904, on the 13.15 and 16.11 return trains. Class 142's were seen on other Hull to York services.

On the journey to York, something funny happened when we were switched from the main down line at Church Fenton to the Leeds lines. It turned out that there was a failed HST, being hauled into York, on the down fast of the ECML, by a class 67.

 

Anyway, here are the photo's:

 

Selby West signal box:

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Cass 144, 144008:

 

 

With regards,

 

Rob.

 

PS. The photo's were taken on a smartphone camera, and are not of perfect quality. Many apologies.

How strange that the nameboard says "SELBY WEST" when there are no other Selby boxes ? Here's my 1979 shot of the box with the "WEST" lettering removed.

Buckton Lane crossing was near Bempton and in June 1979 I made the effort to walk there. It was all pure NER with an NER brass plated oil container on the right for the signal lamps and an NER enamel plate above the door, painted over black and white. I asked BR if I could buy the nameplate but was told it was "reserved", but many years later it turned up in the Malton railwayana auction (still painted) ; I bought it and stripped it to it's shiny NER enamel. 

Also note the two tops from level crossing gate posts used as seats !

Sands Lane gatebox just north of Hunmanby in June 1979, complete with it's lever frame.

In August 1979 I snapped this disused weighbridge at Driffield complete with a couple of lovely BR(NE) orange enamel signs. At the time I used to sometimes ask BR in York if I could buy items like this. If they agreed I would pay them by cheque and present my chit to the nearest BR staff then remove them in a bin liner !

Thanks for the comments guys! I looked up Middleton On The Wolds on Disused Stations and I was mildly surprised to see them say "this was by far the busiest station on the line with 87469 tickets issued" - that would in fact make it 2.5 times busier than Market Weighton ! I checked in Ken Hoole's book "Railway Stations North East England" and the same figure is there. I think we can safely say it is a mistake and the platforms at MOTW weren't actually full and standing ?

Although I saw some well preserved stations , Middleton On The Wolds had last seen a train pass through 12 years before my 1977 photo yet all that remained was the platforms and a few LNER concrete lamp posts which would never see lamps again. 

Hey 60091 those are GREAT shots ! I love the one with the Deltic approaching the bridge from the north - I always used to hang out of the window there.... "Wistful".

In January 1979 I picked my way through the back streets of Hull to see if there was anything left of Cannon Street station. A large (office) building remained with the entrance gates still intact.

Hull Cannon St Gates 27.1.79 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

The site had been cleared , seen here looking north with a chimney of what I think was a former power station ?

Nafferton station on the same day as Hutton Cranswick.

Nafferton Station (2) 17.12.78 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

Nafferton Signalbox  (3) 17.12.1978 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Humberail-1981-New-Holland-To-Cleethorpes-Leaflet-/251975592024

That could well have happened in a 50 mph gale, to that loco' at Filey, Mark!

 

The photo's of Hutton Cranswick from PinzaC55 have reminded me of something called 'Humberail'. I believe it was one of those promotional things, but I cannot remember all of the details.

 

With regards,

 

Rob.

Humberail was a branding exercise applied to lines around Hull. In the days when we used to have those little fold out pocket timetable the Humberail ones were very light blue, Tyne Valley ones were green and Tyne Loop ones were yellow.

Hutton Cranswick station in December 1978

Hutton Cranswick Signalbox 17.12.1978 par PinzaC55, on ipernity

Nice shots of Hutton Cranswick Rob.

 

I've seen that strange engine. Filey now has one too near the site of the old signal box. I must take a shot of it soon.

 

Saw a Class 153/158 lash over the weekend in Filey on Sunday.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

The "engine" at Hutton Cranswick looks to me like it is made out of junction boxes for lineside cess drainage pipes.

Here's a c1900 picture of Sandholme and looking west.

 

 At the time of your picture Gylberdyke Station was still staffed, it was about 1988 or possibly a little later when the station became unmaned. The buildings were demolished early '90's.

Edit, picture compressed, and now added.

 

 

 

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I always wondered when I saw those extremely wide platforms on H&BR stations whether they had in mind possible widening to 4 tracks ? I guess the 2 track bridge rules that out.