Pickering Railway Station

Pickering railway station is the southern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. HistoryWhitby and Pickering Railway (1836 to 1845)Originally, from 1836, Pickering was the southern terminus of the horse worked Whitby and Pickering Railway (W& P) engineered by George Stephenson. The coach shed at the end of the W& P's line stood approximately where the north end of the Y& NM trainshed stands today. The W& P minute books (in The National Archives) also refer to a weighbridge at Pickering but if built its location is unknown. York and North Midland Railway (1845 to 1854)In 1845 the W& P was taken over by George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway (Y& NM) and the present station was built (to the design of George Townsend Andrews. The Y& NM converted the line into a double track steam railway and constructed the link from Pickering to Rillington Junction on the new line from York to Scarborough. As well as the fine station building the York and North Midland Railway also provided other characteristic Andrews buildings, a stone built goods shed with wooden extension and a gas works - one of the earliest surviving railway gasworks buildings - occupied the area now known as 'the Ropery', the goods shed was demolished to make way for the new road but the gas works retort and purifier house still stands today adjacent to the new road. It ceased to produce gas when Pickering got its own Gas and Water company; later the G. T. Andrews engine shed but it is one of very few rural single track engine sheds still standing.

Pickering railway station is the southern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and serves the town of Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. HistoryWhitby and Pickering Railway (1836 to 1845)Originally, from 1836, Pickering was the southern terminus of the horse worked Whitby and Pickering Railway (W& P) engineered by George Stephenson. The coach shed at the end of the W& P's line stood approximately where the north end of the Y& NM trainshed stands today. The W& P minute books (in The National Archives) also refer to a weighbridge at Pickering but if built its location is unknown. York and North Midland Railway (1845 to 1854)In 1845 the W& P was taken over by George Hudson's York and North Midland Railway (Y& NM) and the present station was built (to the design of George Townsend Andrews. The Y& NM converted the line into a double track steam railway and constructed the link from Pickering to Rillington Junction on the new line from York to Scarborough. As well as the fine station building the York and North Midland Railway also provided other characteristic Andrews buildings, a stone built goods shed with wooden extension and a gas works - one of the earliest surviving railway gasworks buildings - occupied the area now known as 'the Ropery', the goods shed was demolished to make way for the new road but the gas works retort and purifier house still stands today adjacent to the new road. It ceased to produce gas when Pickering got its own Gas and Water company; later the G. T. Andrews engine shed but it is one of very few rural single track engine sheds still standing.