Loftus railway station

Loftus
Site of the former station with stationmaster's house, 2009
General information
Location	Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland England
Coordinates	54°33′08″N 0°53′38″W / 54.552236°N 0.894000°W / 54.552236; -0.894000
Grid reference	NZ716180
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
Pre-grouping	North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1875	Opened
1960	Closed to passengers

Loftus, previously Lofthouse, was a railway station on the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway. It was opened on 1 April 1875 as the terminus of a line from Saltburn, and served the town of Loftus. When the line to Whitby was opened on 3 December 1883, it became a through station with two platforms and a goods yard consisting of three sidings. It closed to passenger traffic on 2 May 1960 and goods traffic on 12 August 1963;^[1] the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.^[2]

Though a single track was relaid from Skinningrove by 1 April 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine, the station remains closed, and most buildings have been demolished. The stationmaster's house is now a private residence, the large brick-build goods shed also remains standing.^[1]