Where is Scorton railway station?

Scorton railway station is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4080°, -1.6166°.

Heritage railway stations · North East England

Scorton railway station

Scorton railway station in England North East, United Kingdom.

Former Scorton Station, North Yorkshire - geograph.org.uk - 104538 — mark harrington — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Scorton 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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Scorton railway station (North Yorkshire) was a railway station in North Yorkshire, England. The village of Scorton is situated around 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) south from the site of the station, although the site is just within the neighbouring civil parish of Uckerby.

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Background

History

The station was once part of the Eryholme-Richmond branch line, built by the York and Newcastle Railway in 1846. Like most of the infrastructure of the line, Scorton station was built in the Tudor Style. The station was located 9 mi down the line from . The station buildings were just to the north of the village, and on the 'down' side of the station on the Richmond bound platform. The station buildings also included a pub, the St Cuthbert's Inn, which was named after a well in the field behind the inn and station buildings. Passenger traffic to the station was buoyed by pupils going to and from the grammar school, passenger traffic for the Hospital of St John and God, and during the Second…

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