Picton railway station

The station was located just north of the junction for the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway line to and on the Whitby & Pickering Railway. It was 2 mi south of and 10 mi north of . Local services started at the station with the opening of the Leeds Northern Railway and then along the Battersby line when the first section to opened in 1857. With the full opening of the line to Grosmont in 1865, four out and back services to Whitby per day were worked along the Battersby line. The timetable from 1906 shows that the station had five stopping services each way on both lines; the services south went to Northallerton and the services on the line to Stokesley originated in Stockton and ran…