page_title: Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Londesborough Road. This south-westerly facing photograph is of Londesborough Road and was taken from near its junction with 801017 (right and just behind the viewpoint). The photograph is looking toward (lower centre of the picture) what was originally called the Washbeck Excursion Station (It became Scarborough Londesborough Road in 1933: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/s/scarborough_londesborough_road/index.shtml ). Today the building houses a warehouse and garage (Elgin: http://www.elgin.gov.uk/ ). For another photograph of Londesborough Road, taken from the same viewpoint but facing the opposite direction, click here 801022. Road name information from OS Maps at:- Elgin, http://www.elgin.gov.uk/
context_page_description: Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station, originally called Washbeck Excursion Station, was built as an excursion station to ease operating pressure at Scarborough Central in the holiday resort of Scarborough. It had a through and a bay platform. Excursion trains from all over the country could be routed into it rather than the main Central station to disembark their passengers before heading onwards to the Whitby branch line to be stabled in carriage sidings at Northstead/Gallows Close on the town's northern outskirts. Return services would follow the same route in the opposite direction to load up before departure.
  It was opened on 8 June 1908 by the North Eastern Railway, but it was not advertised in public timetables until 1933, after it had been upgraded to a public station. It was closed to passenger trains by British Railways on 25 August 1963, but remained in use for stabling coaching stock until its official closure on 4 July 1966.
context_section_description: Scarborough Londesborough Road railway station, originally called Washbeck Excursion Station, was built as an excursion station to ease operating pressure at Scarborough Central in the holiday resort of Scarborough. It had a through and a bay platform. Excursion trains from all over the country could be routed into it rather than the main Central station to disembark their passengers before heading onwards to the Whitby branch line to be stabled in carriage sidings at Northstead/Gallows Close on the town's northern outskirts. Return services would follow the same route in the opposite direction to load up before departure.
  It was opened on 8 June 1908 by the North Eastern Railway, but it was not advertised in public timetables until 1933, after it had been upgraded to a public station. It was closed to passenger trains by British Railways on 25 August 1963, but remained in use for stabling coaching stock until its official closure on 4 July 1966.
  The station building and the remains of the 14 coach long platform can still be seen from trains on the Yorkshire Coast Line and on the York to Scarborough section of the North TransPennine route on the west side of the tracks approaching Scarborough. However, most of the platform has been demolished due to the construction of a new service depot for TransPennine Express trains.
caption: Londesborough Road with station building (2008)
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