Hawsker railway station

Hawsker
The former platform at Hawsker with some old railway carriages (2007)
General information
Location	Hawsker, Scarborough England
Coordinates	54°27′34″N 0°34′43″W / 54.459350°N 0.578500°W / 54.459350; -0.578500
Grid reference	NZ922080
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Scarborough and Whitby Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1885	Opened
1965	Closed
Location

Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the villages of High Hawsker, Low Hawsker and Stainsacre. Hawsker was a small intermediate stop and its ticket sales reflected this; it sold only 8,982 tickets in 1922.^[1]

The Scarborough & Whitby railway was a victim of the Beeching cuts and all freight traffic to Hawsker was curtailed by 10 August 1964 and the station closed to passengers on 8 March 1965.^[2]

The track from Whitby was left in situ until 1973 pending potash traffic which never materialised.^[3] The road overbridge immediately south of the station was removed in the 1990s and replaced with a dual pelican crossing.^[4] The station is now (2007) the headquarters of Trailways Cycle Hire and has old railway carriages used as accommodation on site. In the 2010s a brick wing (in a style similar to the rest of the building) was added to the station house's southeast side.