Hull and Hornsea Railway
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The Hull and Hornsea Railway was a railway line in the northern English county of East Riding of Yorkshire . It connected Kingston upon Hull with the seaside resort of Hornsea on the North Sea coast and was in operation from 1864 to 1964.
history
In 1847 the York and North Midland Railway proposed the construction of a railway line to Hornsea, which was to branch off the Yorkshire Coast Line near the village of Arram north of Beverley . However, the project was not realized due to the resignation of Y&MMR chairman George Hudson.
On October 8, 1862, a second variant was finally built, running directly from Hull to Hornsea, for which the timber merchant Joseph Armytage Wade, based in Hull, had campaigned. Originally, the route should begin on the east side of what was then Cleveland Street (now Stoneferry Road ) and have Hornsea Bridge station as the end point. However, in the course of a change of plan, it was extended directly to the coast. Due to the marshy soil along the end section, its construction was very complex, which resulted in an increase in costs from £ 68,000 initially to £ 122,000.
The line was officially opened on March 28, 1864 at 12 noon with the departure of the first train from Wilmington station. When the operating railway company got into financial difficulties, it finally merged on July 16, 1866 with the North Eastern Railway . In the following years the line came into the possession of the London and North Eastern Railway and was subsequently bought by British Rail .
In 1964, the line fell victim to Richard Beeching's savings plans , so that the last passenger train ran on it on October 19 of the same year. Goods were last transported to Hornsea Bridge station on May 3, 1965 .
The Hornsea Rail Trail is now a cycle path on the former railway line .
literature
- Price, Peter: Lost Railways Of Holderness, The Hull Withernsea and Hull Hornsea Lines . Hutton Press Ltd., 1989, ISBN 0-907033-86-5 .
- British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas And Gazetteer . Ian Allan Publishing, 1958/1997, ISBN 0-7110-0320-3 .
- Thompson, Michael: The Railways of Hull and East Yorkshire . Hutton Press Ltd., 1992, ISBN 1-872167-46-2 .
