Where is Picton railway station?

Picton railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4649°, -1.3492°.

Natural landmarks · North East England

Picton railway station

Picton railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Picton Level Crossing - geograph.org.uk - 65760 — Mick Garratt — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Picton railway station is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Picton railway station was a railway station serving the village of Picton in North Yorkshire, England. Located on the Northallerton to Eaglescliffe Line (which is now the North TransPennine line) it was opened on 2 June 1852 by the Leeds Northern Railway. It closed to passengers on 4 January 1960 and closed completely in July 1964.

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History

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…

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