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Follow the plaques and find out more about
Pickering Station
Pickering Station Trail
NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS RAILWAY
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Pickering Station Trail
Pickering Station Trail will tell you more about the history of Pickering Station.
The places on the trail are marked by plaques with QR codes to enable you to access trail information on your smartphone. There are twenty plaques to find.
Pickering Station The first railway station in
Pickering was opened in
1836 at the southern
terminus of the horse
drawn Whitby and
Pickering Railway. In 1845
the Whitby & Pickering
Railway was purchased by
the York and North Mid-
land Railway Company.
They extended the railway
south to join then new York to Scarborough railway line and rebuilt the whole
railway for trains hauled by steam locomotives rather than horses.
The new Pickering Station,
designed by the York
architect G.T. Andrews,
was completed in 1847. In
the next 100 years the sta-
tion saw little change until
the roof was demolished in
1952. It was closed by
British Railways in 1965
and the line south from
Pickering was lifted at this
time. In the early 1970s Pickering Urban District Council wished to demolish
the station and replace it with a car park. Opposition to this scheme led to a
public enquiry being held which resulted in the station being saved. The
station was re-opened by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1975. The
station as you see it today was extensively restored between 2000 and 2011
with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The station buildings were
refurbished, the overall roof replaced, and a new learning centre and visitor
interpretation centre added to the rear of platform 2.
These scales outside the
old parcels office were
used to weigh things being
carried by rail because the
railway charged by weight.
It is marked in pounds and
quarters – do you know
what these are in modern
weights? The original
scales were removed
when the station closed.
The set of scales you are looking at were rescued from Malton Station. A fur-
ther set can be seen at the north end of platform 1.
This large grey van was
built by the North Eastern
Railway in 1902. It was
originally used in a special
railway train that delivered
essential supplies to each
station. It carried nearly
everything that was
needed to run a station
such as paraffin for the
lamps, spare parts of all
sorts, ropes, paper, labels and lots and lots of other small items.
Weighing Scales
NER Stores Van
Old Railway Track A small section of the
original track from the
horse drawn Whitby and
Pickering Railway opened
in 1836 is displayed here. It
uses wrought iron rails laid
on stone sleeper blocks
and is called “Fish Belly
Rail” because of the curved
shape of its bottom edge.
Look at the track we use
today, behind the fence, to see how different it is.
This memorial
commemorates the many
railway men who lost their
life serving their country on
the railways in war time.
War Memorial
End of the Line Although the track now
ends here, until 1965 the
railway carried on through
Pickering to join the York
to Scarborough Railway
line, about 6 miles south of
here at Rillington junction,
just east of Malton. Can
you see any remains of the
old railway and its
buildings in Pickering?
Where two railway tracks
join there is a set of points.
These allow the engine to
change over from one
track to the other. When a
train is in the station you
may be able to see the
crew changing the points
when the engine is taken
off and run around the
train.
Points
Signal Box This small wooden signal
box originally stood at
Marishes Road on the line
between Pickering and
Malton. It was rescued by
volunteers from the North
Yorkshire Moors Railway in
1969 and rebuilt here in
2013. Although it has been
fitted out as a working
signal box, it is now used
for explaining and demonstrating the techniques of railway signalling.
The Reussner Learning
Centre was built in 2009 on
a narrow strip of land
behind the main station
wall. It is used for training,
educational activities and
meetings. It also houses the
Railway’s Archive.
The Learning Centre
W. H. Smith Kiosk This is a replica of a typical
W H Smith station kiosk.
Between 1908 and 1955
there was a larger book
stall and kiosk on platform 1
which was situated next to
the current lavatories.
The glazed canopy over the
picnic area was once part
of a much larger structure
originally built for Church
Fenton Station near York in
1904. It was demolished in
1990, and after a long
period in store, was rebuilt
at Pickering in 2011.
Picnic Area
Visitor Centre The Yorventure Visitor
Centre was opened in 2010
and houses a display that
gives an introduction to the
Railway and its history. The
Centre is in a late 19th
century building which
originally housed a
stationery engine that
pumped water out of
Pickering Beck to a storage
tank. It was then used for filling steam locomotives. You can still see the big
pipe in the Beck.
The modern buildings at
the end of the platform are
used for the maintenance
and restoration of our
carriage and wagon fleet.
They were built in 1984 with
further extensions added in
1996 and 2005. In 2008
the new Atkins Building
was added at the north end
of the site, this is used for
the restoration of our historic coaches.
Carriage Shed
Pickering Beck / Mill At the north end, both plat-
forms cross part of
Pickering Beck on a bridge.
The beck splits into two
streams about 800m north
of the station and these re-
join just downstream of this
bridge. The part of the
Beck that flows under the
railway is the end of the mill
race that carries the water
that once powered Pickering’s High Mill. Can you see the old mill buildings
north of the station?
The green cast iron
footbridge over the railway
tracks, typical of many built
by the North Eastern
Railway, was rescued from
Monkwearmouth in the late
1980s. It was made
redundant by the building
of the Tyneside Metro,
moved to Pickering and
rebuilt in 1991.
Footbridge
Fish Store There is wooden lean-to
building is at the back of
the main station buildings
near the footbridge that
was built to store fish. It
has slatted walls for
ventilation and a sink and
shelves for cleaning and
storing the fish which was
brought in by rail and then
sold in Pickering.
The large roof over the
railway tracks that you can
see now is a replica of the
original 1847 one. The
original roof was removed
in 1952 as it was worn out.
This left the station with no
roof at all over the
platforms and tracks. The
new roof was completed in
2011 to the same design as
the original one with help from the Heritage Lottery Fund and many other
donations.
Overall Roof
Whitby Building The long wooden building
on platform 1 was originally
situated at the south end of
Whitby Town Station. It
was moved to Pickering
and rebuilt here in 1993. It
is now used for offices and
stores.
The small wooden building
now used by station staff
was originally used as a
level crossing keeper’s
cabin at Gilling East
Station, south of Helmsley.
It was moved here in 2001.
Gilling Building