Loftus railway station
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Loftus, previously Lofthouse, was a railway station on the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
. It was opened on 1 April 1875, and served the town of Loftus
. It closed to passenger traffic in April 1960 and goods traffic later in the decade; the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.
Though a single track was re-instated in the 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine
, the station remains closed.
Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway
The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway was a short lived railway line, running along the northeast coast of England from the River Tees at Middlesbrough to the Esk at Whitby, where it met the Scarborough & Whitby Railway line and the Whitby and Pickering Railway...
. It was opened on 1 April 1875, and served the town of Loftus
Loftus, North Yorkshire
Loftus is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies in a region between Saltburn-by-the-Sea and the North York Moors...
. It closed to passenger traffic in April 1960 and goods traffic later in the decade; the tracks through the station were lifted in 1964.
Though a single track was re-instated in the 1974 to allow freight trains to reach Boulby Mine
Boulby Mine
Boulby Mine is a site run by Cleveland Potash, located just southeast of the village of Boulby, on the northeast coast of the North Yorkshire Moors in Redcar and Cleveland, England. It is Europe's second deepest mine at —Pyhäsalmi Mine in Finland is even deeper, being 1,448 metres deep—producing...
, the station remains closed.