On this day in 1953, 72 years ago, a hidden construction shaft in Clifton Hall Tunnel broke through the lining, sucking two houses into the void above and claiming five lives.
Staintondale Station, on the old Scarborough-Whitby route, served a few isolated houses. It’s now a private residence but visitors can pass between its platforms on the coastal walk which follows the trackbed of this picturesque line.
July 2008Forgotten Relics records and celebrates the UK's disused railway structures, still standing as monuments to the period of ambition, courage and endeavour during which they were built.
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