Destroying Forge Valley Railway Station | Explored before it is Gone Forever | Urban Exploration

This is Forge Valley Railway Station, located in North Yorkshire on the Seamer to Pickering, single track branch line.

Opening on the first of May 1882, the branch line was 16 and a quarter miles long, built by NER - the North Eastern Railway.

To add a little confusion this station is not actually located on forge valley, nor does the branch line even run through it, but it is located in the village of West Ayton. The station presumably being named differently to avoid confusion with Great Ayton station also on the North Eastern network near Middlesbrough.

Forge Valley Station was complete with its own engine shed and large coal storage bunkers. A goods yard and livestock pens were located near the station and a little further west was a timber yard with its own sidings.

The branch line – one of the first to be built in North Yorkshire, ran mainly through the hills of the county’s North Yorkshire Moors, passing mainly farmland.

From opening the line was very successful and profitable, but ran in to financial and traffic decline in the 1930’s, by the time British Rail took over the network on the 1st January 1948, the line was not cost effective and it didn’t take BR’s management long to announce the closure of the line – noteworthy over a decade before Dr Richard Beechings infamous cuts.

The last passenger service left Forge Valley Station on on 3rd June 1950 and the track was lifted in the same year.

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