Grosmont railway station
Grosmont 
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Up platform running in board at Grosmont
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| Location | |
| Place | Grosmont |
| Local authority | Scarborough |
| Coordinates | 54°26′10″N 0°43′30″W / 54.436°N 0.725°WCoordinates: 54°26′10″N 0°43′30″W / 54.436°N 0.725°W |
| Grid reference | NZ828052 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GMT |
| Managed by | Northern (Esk Valley Line) North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) |
| Number of platforms | 3 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 23,660 |
| 2012/13 |
 16,376 |
| 2013/14 |
17,912 |
| 2014/15 |
16,144 |
| 2015/16 |
15,172 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1835 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Grosmont from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Grosmont railway station serves the village of Grosmont in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Esk Valley Line which serves one platform and is operated by Northern who provide the station's passenger services.
The Whitby and Pickering Railway built a line through Grosmont in 1835, and the present station was constructed in 1845, under York and North Midland Railway ownership. The main part of the station closed in 1965, and served trains to and from Pickering and Malton. It was re-opened in 1973 by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, a heritage railway which operates passenger services between Whitby and Pickering. The station is also a stop on the Network Rail-owned Whitby to Middlesbrough Esk Valley Line.
The station appeared several times in the television series Heartbeat.
In 1835 a railway was brought to Grosmont by the Whitby and Pickering Railway and its engineer George Stephenson. It was a horse-worked line and opened from Whitby as far as Grosmont (then known as 'Tunnel' from the tunnel required to pass from Grosmont towards Beckhole) in 1835.
Iron ore extraction resulted in the whole area under Grosmont station being mined, on the 'pillar and stall' method; the railway company (the NER) simply bought the ironstone under the station house and the river bridge and made preparations to deal with subsidence elsewhere.
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