Malton railway station
Malton 
|
|
|---|---|
Malton station in December 1986
|
|
| Location | |
| Place | Norton |
| Local authority | Ryedale |
| Coordinates | 54°07′55″N 0°47′49″W / 54.132°N 0.797°WCoordinates: 54°07′55″N 0°47′49″W / 54.132°N 0.797°W |
| Grid reference | SE787713 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MLT |
| Managed by | TransPennine Express |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
|
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.292 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.295 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.306 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.319 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.350 million |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1845 |
| Listed status | |
| Listed feature | Malton Station |
| Listing grade | Grade II listed |
| Entry number | 1149543 |
| Added to list | 19 March 1986 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Malton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 |
|
Malton railway station is a Grade II listed station which serves the towns of Malton and Norton-on-Derwent in North Yorkshire, England. It is operated by TransPennine Express that provide all passenger train services, running on the York to Scarborough Line.
The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is the following:
On Sundays this is reduced to the following:
A half-hourly service, with timetable and fares integration with Yorkshire Coastliner buses, has been suggested as a means of providing relief to the parallel A64 trunk road that would be considerably cheaper than the option of dual carriageway.
Services from Malton station started on 7 July 1845 when the York to Scarborough Line was opened. The station buildings were designed by the architect George Townsend Andrews.
On 3 May 1870 there was a gas explosion at the station. The platform edging stones were built on a double wall of bricks, separated by a gap, into which gas had leaked. A porter passing with a lamp caused the explosion which lifted a 50 yards (46 m) length of the flagstones off the platform.
The station is only served by trains between Scarborough and York (and beyond), however prior to the Beeching Axe Malton station was also served by the Pickering Branch of the York and North Midland Railway with trains heading north (diverging at Rillington junction) to Pickering and then onwards to Grosmont and Whitby. This line closed entirely north of Pickering in 1965, with a freight-only service to Pickering surviving until 1966.
Trains still run from Pickering to Grosmont as part of the preserved North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but the tracks between Rillington, where the line branched, and Pickering have since been lifted.
...
Wikipedia